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being of a deeper shade. It is also a smaller insect to judge from 

 all the specimens of it I have seen. The female is unknown. It 

 occurs in the Nicobars, Burma, and the Malay Peninsida. 



With regard to L. kankena, I have carefully described it on page 

 173 of my third volume under L. kondulana. It is a good species, 

 and is represented in my collection by specimens from the Nicobar 

 and Philippine Isles, from which latter locality it has been described 

 by Herr Rober under the name of insularis. 



All these three species seem to be extremely rare. I trust that 

 no one will now have any further difficulty in identifying them 

 should they obtain specimens of them. 



16. LAMPIDES BOCHIDES, n. sp., PL F, Fig. 15, 6. 



Habitat : Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Expanse : $ , 1*45 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both icings rich dark metallic 

 blue, rather darker and of a more purple shade on the forewing 

 than on the hindwing. Forewing with a narrow black outer 

 margin, widest at the costa, fining down to nothing at the anal 

 angle. Hindwing with a fine white line within the black anteciliary 

 thread ; two fine black lines, the anterior half the length of the 

 posterior, at the anal angle, divided by a fine white line. Under- 

 side, both wings dark reddish stone-colour, the whitish markings 

 arranged as described for L. latimargus, Snellen, but they are 

 all much narrower, and the third characteristic striga of the fore- 

 wing instead of being continuous, has its lowest fragment in the 

 second median interspace shifted outwards, so that this fragment 

 forms the basal portion of a Y-shaped figure, of which the upper 

 portion of No. 3 striga and No. 4 striga form the two arms. 

 Hindwing with the large anal black spot surrounded by a broader 



and deeper orange ring than in L. latimargus. 



L. bochides appears to be a connecting link between the eljris group 

 of the genus Lampides and the genus Jamides. It is certainly the 

 richest coloured species yet described, though still the metallic lustre 

 comes far behind that of Jamides bochus, Cramer. Next in richness 

 of colouring follows L. coruscans, Moore, apparently confined to the 

 Island of Ceylon, and to be known J: rom its near allies by the highly 



