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Show 1891.] LYCENID*: O F T H E S O L O M O N ISLANDS. 361 Aola, Guadalcanar I. N.W. Bay, Malaita I. Fauro I. Ru-biana I. Ulaua I. This species can be immediately distinguished from the preceding by its having an additional band in the centre of the cell below, which is also continued downwards nearly to the inner margin. NACADUBA KORENE, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 8.) Male. Allied to N. euretes, but all the bands on underside narrower, and bordered outwardly with sordid white, not pure white as in that species. The submarginal row of lunules is only slightly darker than other parts of wings. Expanse srme as N. euretes. Aola, Guadalcanar I. Opposite Ugi, San Christoval I. This form may prove to be a variety of the preceding, but in a long series of specimens there do not appear to be any intermediates. NACADUBA AMAURA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) Male. Allied to N. ancyra, Felder, from Amboina and Aru, from which it principally differs by having the bands on the underside much more irregular, and by the submarginal row of crescent-shaped lunules being large and dark, and by the greater preponderance of white in the ground-colour, and by being grey in place of brown. Female. Upperside dull greyish brown, the disk of the fore wing suffused with blue ; hind wing slightly bluish, with a distinct marginal row of grey-bordered lunules, that one between the median nervules being darker and bordered inwardly with orange. Underside browner than in male, and more strongly diffused with white. A short black tail white-tipped, and white below. Expanse, 6 If inch, $ ly^inch. Alu I., near Shortland I. Rubiana I. Malaita I. This may prove to be a variety of N. ancyra, Feld., as it is somewhat variable, but amongst the specimens before me are none which agree well with it. NACADUBA MANIANA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 9.) Male. Allied to the preceding, but a darker shade of blue on the upperside. Underside with all bands bordered with sordid white, having altogether a much duller appearance, and with the marginal row of lunules in the fore wing entirely gone, and the sub-marginal very indistinct. Expanse 1T 3^ inch. Ulaua I. Several specimens not showing any variation. NACADUBA LIGAMENTA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. figs. 11 6, 12 $ .) Male. Upperside shining violaceous blue; cilia brown. Underside with light brown bands, bordered with pure white on a greyish-white ground. Primaries with a band in the middle of the cell, another at the end, and beyond that, reaching from the costa to the submedian nervure, a rather narrow macular band; a marginal |
