1891.] W. Doherty— T^e Butterflies of Samba and Samhawa, ^c. 183 



I took several females in Sumba, both on the coast and in the in- 

 terioi', and also a single male probably of this species. It was violet 

 blue above, the margin very slenderly dark. Below the white areas 

 were nearly obsolete on the forewing, and on the hindwing reduced 

 a white bar in the band across the end of the cell, and a border one 

 on the disc beyond the cell between the lower subcostal and upper me- 

 dian veins. Expanse over an inch and a quarter. 



The species is near N. perusia, Felder, from Amboina, and N. atrata, 

 Horsfield, from Java, but the extensive white areas of the female easily 

 distinguish it. 



80. Nacaduba iiermus, Feld. (viola, Moore). 

 Sumba, Sambawa. 



81. Nacaduba ardates, Moore. 

 Sumba, Sambawa. 



82. Nacaduba macrophthalma, Feld. 



Sumba. The female is marked almost as in that curious little 

 species, N. kerriana, Distant, which I have taken at 4000 feet elevation 

 in Karenni east of Burma. 



83. Nacaduba DANA, de Mceville. 



Sumba, Sambawa. This is probably Mr. Druce's N. ahnora, but his 

 figure and description are so bad that certainty is impossible. 



84. Lampides bochus, Cram. {Jamides hochus.) 



Sumba, Sambawa, rare. The only Sumba specimen I have ex- 

 amined has the blue area above very large, and not at all brilliant. It 

 may be a distinct local form of this species, intermediate between 

 L. bochus, Cram, and L. astraptes, Feld. 



A Lampides which occurs in Borneo, Sumatra and the Malay Pen- 

 insula but has apparently escaped the notice of naturalists, has the 

 underside like that of L. hochus, while the upperside has only a slender 

 marginal dark line and is of a rich blue, darker than that of L. elpis. 

 I have given Mr. de Niceville a Bornean example for description. 



85. Lampides anops, n. sp. PI. IT, fig. 10. 



Male, above, rich azure-blue, violescent in some lights, darkening 

 outwardly, translucent, a slender marginal dark line somewhat broader 

 apically on the forewing, the cilia of the hindwing white. Beloio, ground- 

 colour basalljr gi'ey, darkening outwardly, but without the slightest 



