518 On new Butterflies from the Pacific Islands. 



On the underside the outer dark brown maroinal bands of 

 both wings are likewise twice as broad as in //. refusa. 



Exp. of wings, c? 1, ? 1 1 inch. 



Hah. Kapaur [Doherty). 



In the collections of the Hon. Walter Rothschild and 

 H. Grose- Smith. 



A long series is in the collection. 



Nacadiiba narovona. 



Male. — Upperside dull slate-coloured blue, with the white 

 bands on the underside slightly visible. 



Underside greyish brown. Anterior wings with a spot at 

 the end of the cell bordered on botii sides with white, and a 

 broad somewhat curved transverse band of contiguous spots 

 across the disk, bordered on the inner edge wnth white, 

 followed externally by a broad white band, outside which to 

 the margin is a double row of dark lunules, intersected by a 

 row of white lunules. Posterior wings with a similar white 

 band and outer rows of lunules ; between the two lowest sub- 

 median nervules is a large submarginal black spot, bordered 

 outwardly by metallic blue and crowned by an orange lunule; 

 a smaller metallic blue spot at the anal angle also crowned 

 by orange and bordered narrowly by black ; a subbasal row 

 of spots crosses the cell, and a spot at the end of the cell, all 

 narrowly bordered by white. 



Female. — Upperside. Both wings dull greyish brown, 

 sufi'used with dull blue over the lower part of the anterior and 

 the base of the posterior wings. On the anterior wings a 

 pale whitish band crossing the submedian nervules represents 

 the white band on the underside, and on the posterior wings 

 a similar indistinct band crosses the disk a little beyond the 

 middle ; there is a submarginal row of dark lunules crowned 

 with whitish lunules. 



Exp. of wings 1 inch. 



Hah. Narovo, Solomon Islands [Woodford). 



In the collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



This species is readily distinguished by the conspicuous 

 white bands on the underside of both wings. It is nearest to 

 N. Ugamenta^ H. H. Druce. 



