82 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



NACADUBA PLUMBEOMICANS. 



Plate 658, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ . 



Lampides plumheomtcans, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 231. 

 Nacaduba jplumleomicans, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 40. de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 150 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 389 (1907). 

 Lampides plumbeomicans, var. nicoharicus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1881, p. 234. 

 Nacadiiba nicoharica, Bingham, I.e. p. 390. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull purplish-blue, glistening in certain lights ; 

 terminal line black. Cilia grey, with a brown medial band ; tail black, tipped with 

 white. Underside pale greyish-brown with a slight purplish-chocolate tint ; lines thin 

 and whitish. Forewing with three pairs : the first from near the costa, across the 

 middle of the cell, to the hinder margin ; the second across the end of the cell, 

 where it is broken, and continued a little outwardly to the hinder margin ; 

 the third from near the costa to vein 3, the inner line there touching the lower 

 commencement of the outer line of the second pair. Hindwing with six transverse 

 disjointed lines at equal distances apart, covering the whole wing ; the fourth and fifth 

 nearly meeting together on vein 4, where the fifth terminates, the sixth terminating 

 on vein 3, its last portion a little on the inside ; a double row of sub-terminal marks 

 on both wings capped with whitish lunules, those on the hindwing interrupted in 

 interspace 2 by a deep black spot, capped with orange, two minute spots near the 

 anal angle, all three with metallic blue-green scales ; terminal line on both wings black, 

 inwardly edged by a white line interrupted by the veins. Antennae black, speckled 

 with white ; head and body blackish-brown above, grey beneath ; palpi white below 

 with long black stiff hairs. 



Female. Upperside brownish, of a dull pale purplish-brown colour ; sometimes 

 uniform in colour, sometimes with a whitish space in the middle of the forewing with 

 some blue scaling ; both wings with a double series of sub-terminal brown markings 

 capped with whitish lunules, very indistinct, and nearly obsolete on the forewing, the 

 spot in interspace 2 of the hindwing the largest and round ; terminal line brown, with. 

 inner white edging on the hindwing. Underside much paler than the male, markings 

 similar. 



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



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Mergui, Chittagong Hills, Andamans and Nicobars. 



NACADUBA NORA. 

 Plate 659, figs. 1, $, la, ? , lb, ,J . 



Lycmna nora, Felder, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. el. xl. p. 458 (1860) ; id. Reise, Nov. 

 Lep. ii. p. 275, pi. 34, fig. 34, ^ (1865). Herrick-Schiiffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxx. p. 72 (1869). 



