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b^. Underside, both wings : with no such 

 strigse : with spots, bands, &c. 



a^. Underside, hind wing : with three 

 subbasal dots, often black : one 

 subcostal, one in base of cell, one 

 towards inner margin : all in a row. 

 a^. Underside, fore wing : with a 

 postdiscal band formed bj two 

 parallel, white lines enclosing 

 a strip of ground-colour 

 b^. Underside, fore wing : with a 

 series of postdiscal, generally 

 dark-brown or black spots 

 between veins (in Chilades tro- 

 chilus, Frey. this series is more 

 or less band-like, light, but 

 each spot is dislocated from 

 the other to form a band-like 

 series with step-like margin), 

 a*. Underside, hind wing : 

 with a postdiscal series of 

 well separated spots ; un- 

 derside, fore wing : with a 

 white-circled dot just be- 

 low costa between the 

 mark on discocellular 

 veinlets and the postdis- 

 cal series of spots (this 

 costal dot is wanting in 

 Zizera otis however) 

 b^. Underside, fore wing : 

 with no such dot, hind 

 wing : the postdiscal series 

 of spots band-like, irregu- 

 lar . . 

 V^. Underside, hind wing : with no 

 such dots ; only whitish lines form- 

 ing transverse bands 

 This Nacaduba includes only the one species N. 

 noreia, Feld, which has no tail to the hindwing. For 

 the tailed species, see C of this key. 



B. — Hind wing with a short tooth or projection 

 at ends of veins 1, 2, 3 showing merely as a pro- 

 jection in the fringe round the margin in L, 

 emolus, Godart 

 C. — Hind wing with a little thread-like tail at end 

 of vein 2 on margin (see PI. G, fig. 49). 



a, Upperside : ground-colour uniform black 

 with hinder half of wing orange 



b. Upperside : ground-colour white, brown or 

 some shade of blue, generally with black or 

 brown border of varying width and, in 

 certain species, black spots. 



a}. Fore wing underside : cell unmarked 

 inside the discocellular borders. 



Azanus. (6) 



(•5) 



Chilades. (7) 



Nacaduba. (11) 



LyccBnesthes. (9) 



Talicada. (PI. G, fig. 

 49). (8) 



