370 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Gemis UN KAN A. 



I'lihina, Distant, anten, p. 369. 



Anterior wings elongate ; costal margin moderately convex, outer margin oblique, inner margin 

 nearly straight, a little shorter than outer margin. Costal nervure extending to about half the length ol 

 costal margin ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about one-third before end of cell ; second, third, and 

 fourth emitted at about equal distances apart between base of first and end of cell ; fifth from end of cell : 

 disco-cellular nervules obliquely directed inwardly, the upper distinctly longer than the lower; second 

 median nervule emitted much nearer upper than lower median nervule. Posterior wings elongate and 

 somewhat lobately produced near anal angle, the outer margin obliquely convex. Subcostal nervules 

 bifurcating beyond middle of cell ; second median nervule emitted nearer to upper than lower median 

 nervule. Body robust ; palpi broad and pilose ; antennae moderately long, their apices incrassated, 

 with the tip attenuated and curved or hooked ; legs long, anterior tibias short and thickened ; posterior 

 tibise with two long and prominent spines near apex. 



Unkana is allied to Badamia, Moore, and includes three species which are at present known 

 as found in this fauna. 



1. Unkana batara. (Tab. XXXIV., tig. 11.) 



Isiitene hatara, Moore, MS.* 



Wings above dark fuliginous ; anterior wings with three large irregular pale discal spots, one in and 

 beyond middle of cell, and two beneath cell divided by the second median nervule : beyond these are six 

 minute pale spots, four in oblique series directed outwardly situate beyond upper end of cell, and two 

 separated by the lower discoidal nervule ; a pale streak near centre of inner margin ; posterior wings with 

 the fringe very pale ochraceous. Anterior wings beneath with the costal and apical areas pale steely 

 bluish, and the pale spots above ochraceous beneath ; posterior wings bluish-grey, a spot near apex and the 

 anal-angular area dark fuliginous. Body above and beneath more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 52 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (coll. Staudinger).— Java (Horsf. 

 and Moore). 



This appears to be a moderately scarce species, — at least in collections, — though 

 such comparatively little ardour has been shown in the capture of Hispcrikht: that few correct 

 conclusions can be formed on these questions. 



2. Unkana elia. (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 25, var.). 



Hesperia Elia, Hewitsou, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 8, vol. ii. p. 489, ii. 9 (18G6). 



Cari/stus Elia, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359, n. 2. 



Cobalus elia, Bull. Traus. Liiiu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 554, u. 1 (1877). 



Wings above dark fuliginous ; anterior wings with nine pale irregularly formed spots, of which five in 

 oblique series extend from between the discoidal nervules to the submedian nervure, three in almost 

 perpendicular series divided by the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, and one in and near end of cell ; 

 posterior wings with a transverse discal macular pale greyish fascia commencing at discoidal nervule, and 

 the abdominal-marginal area also largely of the same colour. Wings beneath a little paler than above ; 



* This species is enumerated, but not described, in Horsfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 249, 

 n. 555 (1857). 



