88 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



capped with pale orange. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body brown, 

 the palpi fringed with black hairs. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving dull greyish-blue, costal and outer marginal borders 

 broadly black, broadest at the apex, gradually narrowing on the costa towards the base. 

 Hindwing darker greyish-blue, veins prominent, a sub-terminal series of black angular 

 spots, small and geminate in interspace 1, large in interspace 2, decreasing in size 

 upwards, all capped with pale lunules and outwardly edged with white, terminal line 

 on both wings black ; indications of a series of sub-terminal, blackish, angular spots on 

 the fore wing. Forewings with the outer margin slightly convex ; the apex less 

 produced. Hindwing with the outer margin rounded. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ I^q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South India, Ceylon, Burma, the Andamans and 

 Malay sub-region. 



Distribution. — Hampson recorded it from the Nilgiri Hills, de Niceville from 

 Sikkim, Cachar, Mergui, and the Andamans ; we have received many examples from 

 the Khasia Hills, and have it in our collection also from Perak and Sarawak (Borneo). 



ALLIED INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES. 



Nacaduba pactolus, Lycrena pactolus, Felder, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. cl. xl. p. 456 



(1860) ; id. Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 274, pi. 34, figs. 1 to 3 (1865). Habitat, Philippines, 



Amboina. 

 Nacaduha heroe, Lycseaa beroe, Felder, I.e. p. 275, pi. 34, fig. 36 (1865). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 



p. 219, pi. 20, figs. 17, ^,16, 2 (1885). Habitat, Malacca, Luzon. 

 Nacaduha sericina, Lycjena sericina, Felder, I.e. p. 277, pi. 34, figs. 30, 31 (1865). Habitat, 



Philippines. 

 Nacaduha angusta, Cupido angusta, Druce, Proc. Zool. See. 1873, p. 349, pi. 32, fig. 9. Habitat, 



Borneo. 

 Nacaduha aluta, Cupido aluta, Druce, I.e. pi. 32, fig. 8. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 220, pi. 20, 



figs. 14, ^,13, 9 (1886). Habitat, Malacca. 

 Nacaduha ardeola, Lycfena ardeola, Staudinger, Iris, 1880, p. 97. Habitat, Palawan. 

 Nacaduha cupa, Plebeius cupa, KheU, Rhop. Nias, p. 29, pi. 5, fig. 34 (1884). Habitat, Nias. 

 Nacaduha iomhugensis, Plebeius tombugensis, Rober, Iris, 1886, p. 63, pi. 5, fig. 18 (tailless). 



Habitat, Celebes. 

 Nacaduha azureus, Plebeius azureus, Rober, I.e. pi. 4, fig. 19. Habitat, Celebes. 

 Nacaduha suhfestivus, Plebeius subfestivus, Rober, I.e. p. 64, pi. 4, fig. 33. Habitat, Sumatra. 

 Nacaduha unicolor, Plebeius unicolor, Rober, I.e. p. 66, pi. 5, fig. 4. Habitat, Sumatra. 

 Nacaduha glauca, Lycfena glauca, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1892, p. 142. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1902, vol. xiv. p. 248, pi. FF, fig. 10, $. Habitat, Java. 

 Nacaduha datarica, Lycaena datarica, Snellen, I.e. p. 140. de Niceville, I.e. p. 247, pi. FF, fig. 9. 



Habitat, Java. 

 Nacaduha jpomela, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 508 (1895). Habitat, S. Celebes. 



