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Lampides nora, Semper, Journ. des Mus. Godef. xiv. p. 175 (1879). 



Nacaduba nora, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 73, pi. i. fig. 14, 9 ; id. Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 147 (1890). 

 Lycsena felderi, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 527, pi. 10, figs. 4, (J, 6, ? . 

 Lycdtna ardates, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 574, pi. 67, fig. 1. 

 Nacaduba ardates, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 90, pi. 38, figs. 2, 2a, ^ (1881), and iii. p. 530 (1887). 



de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 3. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 335. 



Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 133. Hampson, id. 1888, p. 358. Manders, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 529. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 153(1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 45. Betham, id. p. 178. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 297. 



Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 380. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1902, 



p. 488. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 391 (1907). 

 Lycsena dubiosa. Semper, Journ. Mus. Godefiroy, xiv. p. 159 (1879). 



Imaqo. — Male. Upperside dark brownisli-purple, terminal line on both wings 

 black ; indications of a sub-terminal blackish spot in interspace 2 of the hindwing ; tail 

 black, tipped with white. Cilia dark grey with an inner darker band. Underside dark 

 brownish-grey with a slight ochreous tint ; markings a little darker than the ground 

 colour, edged with brown, and whitish. Forewing, a bar from near the costa, across 

 the middle of the cell, to vein 1, a bar across the end of the cell, a discal band of 

 conjoined bars, from the costa to vein 3, continued hindwards from its inner side to 

 near the hinder margin. Hindwing with an antemedial band of bars ending in a spot 

 near the abdominal margin, a bar across the end of the cell, a discal outwardly curved 

 band of bars, the third from the abdominal margin a little inwards ; both wings with 

 terminal blackish-brown line, a series of sub-terminal brown lunules, and between 

 them a series of brown marks ; a large sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2 

 crowned with orange, and two pairs of small blackish spots before the anal 

 angle, all with metallic blue-green scales. Antennae black, ringed with white, 

 the club tipped with white ; head and body blackish-brown, abdomen whitish 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside darker than the male. Forewing with the costal and 

 outer spaces blackish, some blue scaling on the inner portion. Hindwing suffused with 

 blackish, with a terminal row of black angular spots, capped with grey and outwardly 

 edged with white ; terminal line of both wings black. Underside darker than in the 

 male, the bands not darker than the ground colour, markings similar to those of the 

 male, but the white edgings to the bands whiter. 



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



Some of the females vary much in the coloration of the underside, some examples 

 from the Andamans and from Amboina are yellowish. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Andamans, Nikobars, Malay sub-region 

 extending to the Philippines and Amboina. A common species. 



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