80 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Habitat. — India. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Nilgiri Hills ; it is recorded by de 

 Niceville from Dehra Dhuu, by Watson from Chin Lushai and from Mysore, by 

 Mackinnou and de Niceville from Mussuri, and by Manders from the Shan States. 



NACADUBA ATRATA. 



Plate 658, figs. 3, (J , 3a, J , 3b, 5 (Wet-season Brood), 3c, ^ , 3d, 9 (Dry-season Brood), 



3e (larva and pupa). 



Lijceena atrata, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 78 (1828). 



Nacaduha atrata, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 89 (1881). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Joum. As. Sec. 



Bengal, 1886, p. 366. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 148 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. 



See. 1890, p. 529, Swinhoe, id. 1893, p. 297. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. x. 



1895, p. 35. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1896, p. 376, pi. 4, figs. 2, 2a, larva and pupa. 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 388, ^voodcut (1907). de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1908, p. 886. 

 Lycsena Icurava, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 22 (1857). 

 Cupido ahaha, Di'uce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 350. 

 Lampides prominens, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 341. 

 Nacaduha prominens, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 88, pi. 37, fig. 3, ^, 3a, 3b, ?, 3c, larva and pupa 



(1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 357. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 149 (1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, ^, 3a, ?, 3b, ?). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull violet, with some dull blue scales at the base, 

 terminal line l)lack, costal space on the hindwing pale. Underside pale violet-brown, 

 markings white. Forewing with the hinder margin narrowly whitish ; two parallel 

 lines across the middle of the cell, each with a spot above it near the costa, these lines 

 continued to the white in the hinder margin ; a line across the cell, just inside its end, 

 followed by a parallel short line, each with a spot above it ; a line commencing below 

 the last short line runs down to the hinder margin and is rather sinuous, a line 

 commencing with a small white sub-costal spot, across the wing to the hinder margin 

 somewhat near the lower end of the sub-terminal series ; another line from near the 

 costa, a little outwardly oblique to vein 3, near the middle of the sub-terminal series ; 

 this series is composed of two bands of lunular brown marks edged outwardly with 

 white lunules, the inner series having the largest spots. Hindwing with six disjointed 

 white lines at equal distances apart covering the wing, their lower ends curving evenly 

 inwards towards the abdominal margin, the first close to the base, the sixth touching 

 in parts the inner lunules of the sub-marginal series ; this series is disposed as on the 

 forewing, but the brown spots are smaller and the white lunules more acute, and it 

 is interrupted in iutersj^ace 2 by a black spot capped with orange, and two minute 



