366 Wood-Mason & de Niceville — On the Bhojoalocerous [No. 4, 



118. LYCiENESTHES LYC^NINA. 



L. lyccBnina, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xviii, p. 281 (1868). 



Two males, Silcuri, IStli and 30tli June, one male, Irangmara, 5tli 

 August, three females, Silcuri, 28tli May to 22nd June. 



119. Ltcjinesthes bengalensis. 



L, hengalensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., 1865, p. 773, pi. xli, fig. 9, male. 



Numerous males in Silcuri and neiglibourliood, 25tli May to 30th 

 Julyr 



120. Nacaduba ardates. 



Lyccena ardates, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1874, p. 574, pi. Ixvii, fig. 1, male. 



Many examples of both sexes from Silcuri and around between 

 26th May and 28th July. 



121. Nacaduba ? atrata. 



Lyccena atratus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 78, n. 13 (1828). 

 A single pair, Silcuri, 7th June, agree with Horsfield's description 

 of this species from Java, and have been so named by Mr. Moore, to 

 whom the specimens were sent for identification. To this group of the 

 genus belong N. prominens, Moore, and N. plumheomicans and its local 

 form nicoharica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville. They all possess three 

 catenulated bands on the underside of the forewing. 



122. Nacaduba ccelestis, de Niceville, PI. XVII, Fig. 11, S . 



" S . Upperside, both wings shining bluish-purple, the outer margins 

 somewhat widely black. Hwdwing with a fine white anteciliary line 

 from the anal angle to the first median nervule. Underside, both wings 

 dusky. Forewing with a subbasal straight fascia from the subcostal 

 nervure to the inner margin darker than the ground-colour, and mar- 

 gined with white ; a similar fascia from near the costa to the inner margin 

 enclosing the disco-cellular nervules, and a series of five similar spots 

 forming an outwardly curved band from the coata to the second median 

 nervule ; a submarginal series of dusky spots outwardly narrowly and 

 inwardly widely defined with white ; an anteciliary fine white line. 

 JSindtving with three indistinct basal spots, a subbasal straight band, 

 another across the disc, coalescing with a shorter much curved one be- 

 yond, and enclosing a conspicuous small oblong white spot, marginal 

 markings as in forewing, but with a round black spot beyond the origin 

 of the ' tail,' outwardly defined with silvery-blue scales and inwardly 



