76 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



NAGADUBA XERRIANA. 



Plate 657, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Nacaduba kerriana, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 253 ; id. Rhop. Malayana, p. 455, pi. 42, 

 fig. 12, ^ (1886). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 146 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. 

 India, Butt. ii. p. 384 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, pale violet-blue, costal line of forewing and terminal 

 line of both wings black ; a series of blackish sub terminal spots in the interspaces, 

 more or less square on the forewing and lunular on the hindwing, followed by a series 

 of indistinct short linear marks on the forewing and lunular marks on the hindwing. 

 Underside white, slightly tinged with grey. Forewing with a pale chocolate-grey thin 

 band before the middle, a line closing the cell, two bands from near the costa, the inner 

 one thin, its lower end joined to the upper end of a thicker band which runs from 

 vein 3 to vein 1, the outer one thicker, fining down to vein 3 just beyond the upper 

 end of the lower band ; all of the same colour. Hindwing with six transverse lines or 

 thin bands of short linear dislocated pale chocolate-grey marks, at equal distances apart, 

 covering the whole surface of the wing ; both wings with a double series of sub-terminal 

 black disjointed marks, the inner series composed of short linear marks, the outer series 

 of lunules ; the second from the upper end of the inner series being a large black spot ; 

 a sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2, with metallic scales ; terminal line on both 

 wings black. Cilia grey ; tail brown, tipped with white. Antennae black, speckled 

 with white ; head and body brown above, white beneath ; palpi with black hairs. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male, but somewhat paler. Forewing with 

 the lower discal portion white, divided by the veins ; outer margin with the black spots 

 joined together forming a narrow even band, slightly thickened at the apex, and with 

 the inner series of marks as in the male. Hindwing with the sub-marginal series of 

 black spots, larger and darker than in the male, the inner line of lunules capped by a row 

 of prominent white lunular-shaped spots, and a large white space in the upper disc, 

 divided by the veins. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1-^ to l^ inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



NACADUBA PAY ANA. 



Plate 657, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ? , 3c, <J . 



Ljcsena jpavana, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 77 (1828). 



Nacaduba pavana, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 367. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 145, pi. 26, fig. 182, ^ (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Eat. Soc. 



1893, p. 297. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 385, woodcut (1907). 

 Lijcsena hertmis, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Nath. cl. xl. p. 457 (1860). 



