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= aberrans^ Elwes == suhfestivus, Rober ; iV. nanda, de Niceville ; 

 N.nelides^ de Niceville; N. ardates, Moore = ? nora, Felder —Icupa, 

 Kheil; (tailless species) N. noreia, Felder; and N. dana, de Niceville. 

 Of all these, the only one that presents any difficulty in iden- 

 tification is N, noreia. That species has no tail, and I have 

 always considered it to be a dimorphic form in both sexes of N. ardates, 

 Moore. I have both sexes of the latter from Sumatra, but of 

 N. noreia only males, unless, as I believe, its female is to be found in a 

 very curiously marked little butterfly which I possess in considerable 

 numbers, all the specimens being obviously females, and there being 

 no males except JSf. noreia to put with them. On the upperside they 

 are of the usual leaden colour, with, in some specimens, a few metallic 

 blue scales on the disc of the forewing. The underside is ochre-yellow 

 or luteous, with, in both wings, a very prominent marginal series of 

 black spots ; these in the forewing are of equal size throughout, but 

 in the hindwing the second spot counting from anteriorly backwards 

 and the sixth are larger than the rest ; within this series of spots is 

 another submarginal obscure fuscous series. Dr. Martin holds that 

 these specimens represent a distinct and unnamed species, and proposes 

 to call it iV. lutea, but I am of opinion that they are females only of 

 the tailless N. noreia^ with which they agree in also lacking a tail. 

 1 have figured (PI. S, Fig. 24,) one of the specimens described above. 

 The female of the true iV. ardates is so extremely variable in the 

 coloration and markings of the underside that I see no improbability 

 in its tailless form (true N. noreia) being equally variable, an extreme 

 form of this variation described above being peculiar perhaps to North- 

 eastern Sumatra, though it is closely approached by some specimens 

 from Burma in my collection. 



17. LAMPIDES LAOTEATA, n. sp., PL S, Figs. 25, ^ ; 26, $ . 



L.pseudelpis, Moore {nee Butler), Lep, Ceylon, vol. i, p. 95 (1881) ; id., de Nice'ville, Butt. 

 of India, vol. iii, p. 16o, n, 736 (1890). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : ,^, 1-5 ; $, 1*4 to 1-5 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings pale shining azure- 

 blue of rather lighter shade than in L. elpis, Godart ; no outer black 



