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Show 626 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Dec. 6, NACADUBA ABERRANS, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 6, 6* •) A single male specimen was sent from East Pegu, with the following note by Mr. Doherty: " Nacaduba sp., in appearance a Catochrysops. Petichaung low country." It may be described as follows :- Size, shape, and colour above of a small specimen of N. atrata, Horsf. Below paler, the two inner bands of the fore wing short, the outer bands more lunulate, the anal ocellus nearly as large as the one above it and showing plainly on the upper surface ; tails as in atrata. It is unlike any other species known to me or mentioned in the ' Butterflies of India.' I have also four males, all taken by Doherty in Car-Nicobar Island some years ago, which agree with the type exactly, though the blue of the upperside is somewhat faded. JAMIDES BOCHUS. Papilio bochus, Cram. Pap. Ex. ix. p. 210, t. cccxci. figs. C, D 3 (1782). Jamides bochus, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 157. Sent from the Naga and Karen Hills and Perak. LAMPIDES ELPIS. Polyommatus elpis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 654 (1823). Lampides elpis, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 161. Naga Hills and Perak. LAMPIDES KANKENA. Lyccena kankena, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 481 (1862). Lampides kankena, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 174. Specimens from Perak agree with those from the Andamans which pass under this name, and are hardly separable, as far as I can see, from L. elpis, though usually much smaller and having the black border of the fore wing in the male very narrow. LAMPIDES CORUSCANS. Lampides coruscans, Moore, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 341 (1877); Butt. Ind. iii. p. 163. Specimens from Perak, 7 males and 3 females, are constant in their deep blue colour, and seem to be quite easy to separate from all forms of L. elpis, though the markings of the underside agree. LAMPIDES CELENO. Papilio celeno, Cramer, Pap. Ex. vol. i. pi. xxxi. figs. C, D, (1775). Papilio alexis, Stoll (nee Scopoli), Suppl. Cramer's Pap. Ex. vol. v. pi. xxxviii. figs. 3, 3 C, 3 (1790). Hesperia eelianus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. vol. iii. pt. i. p. 280, n. 79(1793)., Lampides zethus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 70. n. 684 (1816). |