J894.] L. de Nioeville — Btitterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. 33 



specimens in the Naga Hills, and Lieut. E. Y. Watson similar ones in 

 the North Chin Hills of Upper Burma (Fort White, 7,000 ft., March and 

 April; Tiddim, 5,500 ft., April), of which he has sent me a consider- 

 able series. E. moorei is not mentioned in Colonel Swiahoe's " List of 

 the Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills."* 



29. Lampides lucide, n. sp., Plate V, Fig. 3, <?, 



Habitat: Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : c?, 1*6 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both loings milky-white more or 

 less glossed with pale blue ; all the fuscous bands, the dark costa, and 

 base of the wing of the underside shining through as pale blue bands. 

 Foreiving with the apex broadly, and the outer border rather broadly 

 and decreasingly black. Hindiving with a black anteciliary thread, 

 within which is a series of small indistinct linear black lines between 

 the veins ; cilia white, tipped with black ; tail black, tipped with white. 

 Underside, both icings chalky- white. Foreiving with the basal two-thirds 

 of the costa and the base of the wing sprinkled thickly with plumbeous 

 scales ; a broad straight fuscous band from the dusky costa to the sub- 

 median nervure covering the disco-cellular nervules ; a similar but dis- 

 located band beyond from the costa to the thix'd median nervule ; between 

 these two bands is a quadrate spot in the second median interspace ; a 

 third short band from the costa^to the lower discoidal nervule ; a fourth 

 band, submarginal, curved, from the costa to the submedian nervure ; a 

 fifth marginal narrow band ; a rather broad anteciliary black thread. 

 Hindwing with the base narrowly thickly sprinkled with plumbeous 

 scales ; crossed by seven fuscous bands which are more or less straight till 

 they approach the abdominal area when they are all recurved to the ab- 

 dominal margin, except the second band from the base of the wing, 

 which ends on the first median nervule and is not recurved ; a large 

 oval black spot near the margin in the first median interspace, bearing 

 at the corner nearest to the base of the tail a few brilliant metallic green 

 scales, the spot broadly crowned with rich fei^ruginous ; a small anal 

 black spot bearing anteriorly a few metallic green scales, crowned by a 

 ferruginous line ; an anteciliary fine black thread. Abdomen plumbeous 

 above, the segments marked with a white line, the abdomen below white. 



This is a very remarkable species, and unlike any other. The 

 coloration of the underside is reversed. In the other species of the 

 genus the ground-colour is dark and the markings are white, in 

 L. lucide the ground-colour is white and the markings are black. The 

 broad black apex and outer margin of the forewing above, and the 



* Trans. Ent. Soe. Loud,, 1893, p. 297. 

 J. n. 5 



