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both of which are found in the same locahty as that which we understand as the typical form 

 of L. crliamis, 



Mr. Biggs writes that in Malacca this species is " found in numbers under the shade of 

 tall thick-foliaged forest trees."* 



The larva and pupa, as found in Java, have been figured from the drawings of Dr. Hors- 

 field,f and we are likewise indebted to the Bros, de Alwis for drawings of the same as observed 

 in Ceylon. I The last are thus described : — " Larva onisciform ; green or violet-brown, with a 

 dark dorsal and lateral black lines. Pupa pale violet-brown." § According to Dr. Horsfield, 

 the larva "feeds on the B at ea f rondo sa,\\ and was observed in the month of February 

 in Java." IT 



3. Lampides kankena. (Tab. XX., fig. 18 <?, and 11 2 ,) 



Ltjctrna Kanhma, Felcler, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xii. p. 481, u. lOG (1862)); Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 270, u. 331, 



t. 84, f. 87 (1865). 

 Lampides Kankena, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 588 ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A, S. B. vol. l. p. 235, 



n. 88(1881). 

 Lampides Kankena' Butl. Traus. Liiin. Soc. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 547, u. 10 (1877). 

 Cupido Carulea, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 349, n. 13, t. 32, f. 6. 

 Lampides Ciendea, Butl. Traus. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, u. 7 (1877). 



Male. Wings above dark, shining, azure-blue ; anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly and 

 the outer margin (especially at apex) rather more broadly blackish ; posterior wings with the outer margin 

 narrowly blackish, and with two transverse black lines outwardly margined with whitish at anal angle ; 

 tail-hke appendage black, with the apex white. Wings beneath dark greyish-brown, with a plumbeous 

 tinge, and crossed by the following greyish-white linear fascia arranged in pairs : — anterior wings with two 

 crossing end of cell and then dislocated and extending to inner margin, followed by two, likewise dislocated, 

 commencing near costa, and terminating at upper median nervule, continued by a short, single intermediate 

 one reaching the central median nervule, two submarginal and one marginal ; posterior wings with three 

 pairs more or less dislocated, two waved submarginal and one marginal ; a large black marginal spot 

 containing a few scattered bluish scales and inwardly broadly surrounded with ochraceous situate between 

 second and third median nervules, and at anal angle a black transverse angulated streak, margined with 

 greyish-white and inwardly bordered by a few bluish scales and a small ochraceous spot. Body above 

 with the thorax more or less concolorous with wings, the abdomen greyish-brown, with the lateral 

 segmental incisures greyish-white ; body beneath greyish-white ; legs fuscous, more or less annulated with 

 greyish, the femora wholly greyish beneath. 



Female. Wings above with the blue coloration less resplendent, the anterior wings with the apex 

 and outer margin more broadly blackish ; posterior wings with a marginal row of blackish spots bordered 

 with greyish, placed between the nervules, that at anal angle transversely linear and angulated. Wings 

 beneath as in male, the ochraceous margining of the subanal spot larger and more diffused. 



Exp. wings, J" & 2 , 2.5 to 32 millim. 



H-U3. — Nicobar Islands; Kar Nicoljar (Felder). — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Biggs — coll. Dist.). 

 —Malacca (.Pinwill — Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce). 



=•■ ' Mouth. Packet,' vol. ii. p. 191 (1881.1. f Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. 1. 1, f. 1, 1 a. 



I Moore's Lep. Ceyl. i. t. 38, f. 36. § Ibid. p. 9.3. 



\\ The " dhak tree," which iu Northern India affords a taimin substance from its inner bark, a yellow dye from its 

 flowers, whilst the lac uisects deposit " lurid red tears " on its twigs. 

 IT Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 25. 



June 30, 1884. 3 n 



