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both wings very dark, almost black, without distinct markings. 

 Forewing with an apical triangular pale patch ; the inner margin as 

 far as the submedian nervure whitish ; a submarginal indistinct series 

 of five linear black spots. Eindwing with indistinct traces of a broad 

 dark discal and submarginal band. 



Quite distinct from the same sex of the Javan S. vivarna, Horsfield, 

 which has a tail and anal lobe to the hindwing, and has the blue 

 coloration on the upperside of the hindwing further removed from the 

 outer margin than in that species. Nearest to S. florimel, Doherty,* 

 from the Tavoy district, Burma, differing therefrom in its larger size, 

 much darker coloration on the underside, without distinct markings of 

 any kind. Perhaps nearest of all to (i Amblypodia " palowna, 

 Staudinger,f from Palawan in the Philippines, apparently differing in 

 its larger size, and the black costal and outer margins to the forewing 

 on the upperside broader. 



Described from a single example sent to me by Mr. H. Fruhstorfer 

 without any precise locality. 



16. NACADUBA NELIDES, n. sp., PI. 0, Fig. 24, $. 



Habitat : N.-E. Sumatra ; W. Java. 



Expanse : $,1'2 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings shining violet-blue 

 of almost exactly the same shade found in typical specimens of 

 N. atrata, Horsfield, from Java ; the margins (as seen under a 

 magnifying glass) narrowly black. Cilia black, tipped with white. 

 Tail black, short, tipped with white. Underside, both wings French- 

 grey, all the markings of a slightly darker shade than the ground, 

 outwardly defined by whitish ; a double series of marginal lunules, 

 and a very fine anteciliary black thread. Forewing with a spot across the 

 middle of the discoidal cell, with a faint one posterior to it in the 

 submedian interspace ; a spot closing the cell ; a discal chain-like 

 series of seven spots, the five anterior ones in a curved series, conjoined, 



* S. florimel, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol, lviii, pt. 2, p. 424, n. 30, pi. xxiii, figs. 17 

 •male ; 4, female (1889). 



| Iris, vol. ii, p. 131, pi. ii, fig. 3, male (1889). 



