90 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



the penultimate spot most distinct. Underside dark violet-grey ; botli wings witli 

 six very pale delicate vrhite broken narrow bands, the two inner and the outer bands 

 on the forewing short ; a small black anal and large subanal spot, speckled with blue 

 and ochreous bordered. 



Expanse, ^ w, 2 1 inch. 



NACADUBA ARDATES (Plate 38, Fig. 2, -la). 

 Lycana Ardaies, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend. 1874, p. 574, pi. 67, fig. 1, S- 



Male. Upperside purplish violet-blue ; marginal line and a short tail on 

 hindwing black. Cilia greyish, with dark inner line. Female violet-brown, lower 

 medial area of forewing suffused with cobalt blue : hindering with a marginal row of 

 white-bordered indistinct black spots, the penultimate more distinct. Underside 

 dark fawn colour or brownish-grey : forewing crossed by a white-bordered dusky 

 antemedial band, a short discocellular band, a postmedial irregular catenulated band, 

 and two marginal white lunular lines : hindwing crossed by three irregular catenulated 

 bands, and a submarginal dentate-lunular line bordering a marginal row of spots ; 

 subanal spot large, round, black, and speckled with metallic green scales. 



Expanse | to 1 inch. 



" Colombo. About hedges of native gardens, flying among the bushes and 

 settling on the leaves" {Eutchison). 

 " Kandy " (Wade). 



Genus CATOCHRYSOPS. 



Catochrysops, Boisduval, Voj. Astrolabe, p. 87 (1832). 



Forewing triangular ; costal vein extending half the wing, bent upward to costa 

 near the end ; first subcostal branch emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, 

 curved upward and slightly touching the costal, second emitted at one-third, the 

 third at one-eighth before end of the cell, fourth at two-thirds from base of third 

 and terminating at the apex, fifth from end of the cell; discocellulars slightly concave, 

 radial from their middle ; cell narrower than in Nacaduba, extending to half length 

 of the wing; middle median branch from immediately before end of the cell, lower at 

 one-half before the end : hindwing short, triangularly- oval, abdominal margin long ; 

 furnished with a single slender tail ; costal vein much arched ; first subcostal branch 

 sHghtly curved, emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell ; discocellulars obliquely 

 recurved, radial from their middle ; cell broad ; two upper median branches from end 

 of the cell, lower at one-half before the end; submedian straight, internal recurved. 

 Body moderate ; palpi porrect, second joint laxly squamose, third joint long, slender, 

 legs slender; antennal club rather short, grooved. 



Type, C. Strabo. 



