LYCjENIBM. 89 



" Colombo. In cinnamon gardens. Flight short, settling among shrubs and 

 grass " {ffufchison). 



"Kandy" (Wade). 



NACADTIBA ATRATA. 



Lycmna Atratus, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. p. 78 (1828) 5. 

 Lycmna Kurava, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 22 (1857). 



Closely allied to N. prominens, but comparatively smaller in size. Male of a 

 uniformly darker grey-blue ; female also of a more intense and darker glistening blue, 

 the brown outer borders broader. On the underside the white bands are more 

 distinct, the marginal band encloses a series of black spots, and the submarginal 

 band is more acutely sinuous with black interspaces. 



Expanse l^V to li^ inch. 



" In the same locality as N. prominens " {Hutchison). 



NACADUBA MACROPHTHALMA (Plate 37, Fig. 4, 4a). 



Lycmna Macrophthalma, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. 1862, p. 483; Reise Novara Lep. ii. p. 275, 

 pi. 34, f. 35. 



Male. Upperside greyish violet-blue. Female violet-brown, with the lower 

 basal and discal areas dark blue glossed with cobalt : hindwing with a marginal 

 pale-bordered blackish macular band and inner lunular line. Underside greyish 

 purple-brown : forewing crossed by two slender white discocellular bands, two discal 

 bands, two submarginal lunular bands, and a marginal line, the two discal bands 

 broken and shifted inward at the middle median branch : hindwing crossed by six 

 slender white-bordered bands, two submarginal sinuous bands, and a marginal line ; 

 a large black red-bordered subanal spot and anal streak, speckled with metallic green 

 scales. Female paler, with the white bands less prominent, the two submarginal 

 sinuous bands on hindwing diffused and nearly confluent in some specimens. 



Expanse, ^ 1-|, 2 If inch. 



" Poorie, ten miles from Colombo. Plains, forest; during S.W. monsoon — July 

 to October. Flight short, settling on shrubs " {Hutchison). 

 "Kandy" (IFade). 



NACADUBA VIOLA (Plate 38, Fig. 1, 1 a, h). 

 Lampides Viola, Moore, Annals of Natural History, 1877, p. 340. 



Male. Upperside dark violet-blue ; both wings with a slender black marginal 

 Une. Cilia whitish at the edge. Female dark violet-brown, smalt-blue on middle of 

 the forewing : hindwing with indistinct marginal row of pale-bordered black spots, 



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