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Show 656 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYOENID.E. [June 16 NACADUBA, Moore. NACADUBA HERMUS, Feld. Li/ccena hermus, Feld. Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. CI xl p. 457. no. 33 (1860). Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). Mr. de Niceville has examined Felder's type, and states that N. viola, Moore, is a synonym of this species. NACADUBA NOREIA. Lyccena noreia, Feld. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 1868, p. 282. Labuan (Wahnes). Dr. Staudinger has received the tailless form of N. ardates. Moore, which according to Mr. de Niceville (he having seen the type of L. noreia at Vienna) equals that species. NACABUBA ALUTA, Druce. I think it is most probable that the species N.nanda described by Mr. de Niceville in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. x. p. 34, pl. S. fig. 23 (1895), is the same as N. aluta. N. cduta has the prominent white anteciliary thread in the three anal interspaces as described by Mr. de Niceville, but on the underside of the fore wing the anteciliary line only is straight, the other two lines being lunulated, both much to the same extent, the spaces between the lines being darker, as described in N. nanda l. LAMPIDES DAONES, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig. 5, J ) cS . Upperside pale shining silvery blue, appearing of a greenish shade in some lights. Fore wing : costal margin very narrowly, apex and outer margin broadly, dull black. Hind wing dull black, with the blue colour extending just over and around the cell only ; inner margin paler ; a marginal row of indistinct black lunules edged with sordid white, the one between the lower median nervules being large and distinct, followed by a black anteciliary line. Tail black, tipped with white. Cilia of fore wing dull black, of hind wing sordid white, black at the extremities of the nervules. Underside pale greyish brown, with white lines arranged exactly as in L. elpls, Godt., but in the hind wing rather straighter. Thorax and abdomen above and below concolorous with wings. Antennae black, spotted with white. Expanse \\ inches. Penungah. Mus. Cator and Druce. On the upperside this butterfly appears to be allied to L. mara- 1 Mr. de Niceville states, in the list of Sumatran Butterflies, that he thinks N. perusia, Felder, is probably a synonym of N. atrata, Horsf. This is not so. W e possess specimens from Amboyna which I have compared with the type in the Felder collection. On the upperside N. perusia is much like N. atrata, but on the underside is quite different, the white lines, excepting those at the bases, are further apart, and have the ground-spaces between them white, bordered on each side by a brown line. |
