R 110 PA L OCERA MALA TANA, 



± Nacaduba beroe. (Tab, XX., fig. 17 <r , 10 9 .) 



Ltjama btn# t Folder, Beiso Nov. Lep. ii, p. 276, n. 840. t. 3d, fig. 86 (1865). 

 Lamphks heroe, But!. Trans, Liutt. Soc. aer. 2, Zool. vol. i. p, 547, u. 3 (1877j. 



I have here figured two Malaccan specimens contained in the British Museum, and 

 identified ;ih belonging to Folder s species by Mr. BuLlcr. The following is tin.* 

 diagnosis : — 



Abe supra plunibeo-violaceai, striga anteciliari nigro-fusca, suhtuR pallide eauo-brunnere, fasciis 

 bin in macularibus fusel*, tilbo cinctis, connatis ante marginem, auticaruni fascia subbaaali, costrim 

 pertingente, macula anbcostali, fasciola discocelhilari faaciaque exteriore, catenulari apud ramum medianum 

 secundum fracta, poBticarum fascia basali, fasciola discocellulari faseiaque exteriore apud ramum 

 medianum aeeundum contipua, ant ice bis fortiter— et postice fracta, catenulari fundi coloris, later alitor fusco 

 cinctis alboque margroatia, posticaa macula poetica orbiculari, curculo lute&cente intua amplexa* extus arcu 

 tenui metallico diviaa maculiBquc binia analibns miuutis, metallico luteaceutique intua hmbuMia atria** 1 

 Exp. winga, # and 2 , 27 to 28 millim. 



Haj3. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Piuwill — Brit, Mus.) r — Philippine Mauds ; Luzon (coll. Feld.). 



This species seems to be very closely allied to N* atrata,* Horsf. (nec. Cram.), and so 

 again with the equally similar form described as N. protmnens, Moore. f Horsneld's species, 

 however, appears to be distinct by the colour pattern of the wings of the female " transmitting 

 a white patch on the disk." 



3. Nacaduba viola, (Tab. XX., fig. 24 *:.) \ 



Ltimfriifiv viola, Moore, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist* ser. 4, vol, xx, p. 340 [1877); Lep, OeyL i, p, 89, t* 88, 

 f. l f la, <i(1881). 



Male, Wings above dark violet-blue, with a slender black marginal line 

 and the fringe pale fuscous. Wings beneath greyish-brown ; nuti-rior win&rs 

 crossed by the following narrow greyish fascia? arranged in pairs, vis, : — two 

 crossing cell and continued beneath it, two abort and disco-cellular at end of 

 cell, two between end of cell and apex of wing (the innermo8t terminating at 

 central median nervuje), and a pair situate between the last two aeries com- 



, j x-ji. • Fio. 65. — Nac(t<iuba viola £ . 



mencing tit upper median uervule and continued to near abdominal margin, 



and a marginal and two aubmarginal narrow greyish fascia?. Posterior wings 



crossed very irregularly by about six narrow and broken fascia?, as on anterior wings, and a narrow 

 marginal and two much-waved similar subnmrgimd fascism ; a large black marginal spot margined with 

 dark ochraceona and speckled with metallic greenish, between second and third median nervules, and 

 a soraewbat similarly coloured anal angular streak. Body above and beneath more or less concolorous 

 with winga. 



Female. This sex is figured by Mr. Moore in the * Lepid, Ceyl.', aud described as "dark violet* 

 hrown, smalt-blue on middle of the fore wing ; hindwing with indistinct marginal row of pale- bordered 

 I thick spot b, the penultimate spot moat diet met." 



• Lyccena strata, Horsf. 11 Cut, Lep. E, L C. p. 78, n. 18. \ Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. Rer. 4, voL xx. p. 841 (1S77). 



I Tho fisjiirc hero given is very unsatisfactory, if not quite misleading. At the lime when the plate was executed I had 

 not receive:! the species from the Malay Peninsula, ami was indebted to Mr. Moore for the loan of a Malaccan specimen to 

 figure. Tbia specimen was a much rubbed one, and bonce our artist, in his effort to conscientiously pourtray the fipecieti, lias 

 rendered the upper surface of the wings too strongly shaded with brown, Mr. Moore's figures of the male in tho 4 Lep. Ceylon 1 

 is equally uui satisfactory, not showing the markings beneath. I have therefore added a pood woodcut. 



