86 LEPIDOPTEBA INBIC'A. 



NACADUBA ANCYRA. 

 Plate 659, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, $ , 4b, <J . 



Lycsena ancyra, Felder, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, xl. p. 458 (1860) ; id. Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 276, 



pi. 34, fig. 5, <J (1865). 

 Nacaduba anci/ra, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. iSoc. 1895, p. 579. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 395 (1907). 

 Cupido almora, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 349, pi. 22, fig. 7. 

 Nacaduha pseustis, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 182. 

 Nacaduba amaura, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 361, pi. 31, fig. 10. 

 Nacaduba maniana, H. H. Druce, I.e. fig. 9. 

 Nacaduba aberrans, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 626, pl. 44, fig. 6, ^ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside plumbeous-blue, terminal line on both wings black ; a 

 sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2 of the hindwing, and two smaller spots in 

 interspace 1, outwardly edged by a white line ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia 

 brown basally, white outwardly. Underside grey, with a slight pinkish tinge, bands 

 darker than the ground colour, edged with white. Forewing with a band across the 

 middle of the cell, continued from its inner side downwards to vein 1, a band across 

 the end of the cell, a discal outwardly curved band of five conjoined spots from the 

 costa to vein 3, continued from the middle of the fifth spot, hindw^ards in an almost 

 straight line to vein 1, rather close to the sub-terminal series. Hindwing with an ante- 

 medial band, slightly outwardly curved, a bar across the end of the cell, and an 

 outwardly curved discal band broken in three pieces, touching each other ; the first 

 from the costa to the upper end of the cell, touching the outer edge of the discoidal 

 bar ; the second outwards, its upper end touching the outer edge of the upper piece ; 

 the third touching the outer lower edge of the discoidal bar, passing and touching 

 the lower edge of the second piece, and continuing in a rounded curve to the abdominal 

 margin ; both wings with terminal black line, a sub-terminal series of brown lunules, 

 and between them a series of small brown spots on a white ground, the spot in 

 interspace 2 black and larger than the others, the spots in interspaces 1 and 2 capped 

 with orange. Antennte black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish, suftused 

 with blue. 



Female. Upperside varying much in colour, but always paler than the male ; in 

 most examples the Forewing has a broad blackish costal and outer marginal band, 

 broadest at the apex, narrowing somewhat towards the base on the costal portion, and 

 broadening on the outer margin at the hinder angle, the inner portion of the wing often 

 sufi"used with glistening blue scales, a black lunular mark at the end of the cell. 

 Hindwing blue-grey, a terminal rather broad and even band, containing a series of sub- 

 terminal angular black spots outlined by white, and capped with white, the spot in 



