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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. 579 allied to N. ardates, quite distinct. On the upperside it is much like N. atratus (dry-season form) in colour and general appearance, whilst N. ardates is a totally different shade, being dark violaceous brown. On the underside, although the markings are placed as in N. ardates, they are always pure white. Tbe female is dull blackish brown on the upperside, with the disc of the fore wing light shining blue and with an outer-marginal row of black spots on the hind wing most conspicuous; the underside is paler in colour than the male, and the double marginal row of black lunules is more distinct. Mr. Distant has probably figured and described specimens of N. ardates as N. aluta in his ' Ehopalocera Malayana.' I hope the above remarks will enable the species to be distinguished when met with. It is not an uncommon insect in Borneo, but I have seen no specimens from any other locality. Messrs. Godman and Salvin possess the type and other specimens, whilst Dr. Staudinger has also sent it. The type measures fully 1 inch, whilst the figure barely reaches f inch. Messrs. Distant and Pryer record A", aluta from Sandakan (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xix. p. 267), but as Mr. Distant has not recognized the species, probably not having seen the type, without which it was of course quite impossible to do so, they are probably referring to Ar. ardates l. NACADUBA ANCYRA. Lyccena ancyra, Feld. Eeise Nov. Lep. p. 276, t. 34. fig. 5 (1865). Cupido almora, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 349, pi. xxii. fig. 7. Nacaduba pseustis, Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. Ix. pt. ii. p. 182 (1891). Kina Balu (Waterstr. &f Everett) ; Labuan (Low) ; S.E. Borneo (Doherty). The figure given of C. almora is misleading. I have examined the type of L. ancyra in the Feider collection and find that C. almora, Druce, the type of which ( J ) is in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection, is identical with it. Mr. Doherty has also described it as N. pseustis2. UNA, de Nicev. Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 51 (1890). U N A USTA. Zizera ? usta. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xvii. p. 531 (1886);' Ehop. Malay, p. 454, pi. xliv. fig. 5 (1886). 1 Dr. Staudinger has kindly sent m e for examination the type of his Lyccena ardeola from Palawan (Iris, ii. p. 97, 1889), which must be sunk as a synonym of N. dana, de Nicev., with which it is identical. 2 N. amaura, H. H. Druce (P.Z. S. 1891, p. 361, pi. xxxi. fig. 10), from the Solomon Is., should be sunk as a synonym of JV. ancyra, as also probably should JV. qaura, Doherty, from Sumba (J. A. S. B. vol. Ix. p. 181. 1891), which is stated (p. 182) to be something like Lycarna palmyra, Feld. I cannot, however, see any resemblance. An error has been made in numbering the figures on plate ii. in this part of the J. A. S. B. ; fig. 9 (pi. ii.) should read fig. 11, and vice versa, as is evident from the descriptions on pp. 182-184. JV. maniana, H. H. Druce (id. pi. xxxi. fig. 9), is also very close and should perhaps be considered a slight local race. 37* |