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believe to be the dry-season form of Z. pura. It should be noted, however, that the Mergui 
specimens were all taken during the cold-season, when the weather is usually quite dry over the 
greater portion of Northern India. There may, however, have been a spell of wet weather at 
some period duringthe earlier life of these specimens which caused the imagines to assume the 
garb of the wet-season form, or, still more probably, Burma often being very wet during the win- 
ter, there may in Mergui be no dry-season form at all of Z. pura. These Chittagong specimens 
differ in the usual way from the wet-season form ; the ground-colour of the underside of both 
wings is cinnamon-brown, except a discal suffused white patch on the forewing, strize nos. 1 and 2, 
also nos. 3 and 4, of the forewing are entirely filled in with deeper brown, and all four strize to- 
gether forming a single large Y across the disc of the wing. In the hindwing the basal and 
discal strize are all filled in with dark brown in the same way, three broad dark brown bands 
across the wing therefore resulting. The orange spot at the anal angle of the hindwing also is 
very small, in some specimens quite obsolete, The upperside of the males of these six Chitta- 
gong specimens has the fine black marginal thread characteristic of Z. fura, and by which 
alone I can recognise them as appertaining to that species, but in all other respects they are the 
ordinary dry-season form of Z. e/anus. 
The figure shews both sides of a female specimen of the dry-season form of this species 
faken in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and now in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
740. Lampides kinkurka, Felder. 
Lycena kinkurka, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 481, n. 107 (1862) ; idem. id., Reise 
Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 273, n. 336, pl. xxxiv, figs. 24, 25, female (1865) ; Lampides kinkurki, Moore, Proc. Zoole 
Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 588; Z. @/zanus, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville (zec Fabricius), Journ. A.S. B., vol, l, pt. 2, 
P. 234, Me 30 (1881) ; idem, id., 1. c., vol. li, pt. 2, p. 17, n. 32 (1882). 
HaBitaT : Kar Nicobar (Feder), Nankowri (J/oore), Kamorta, Teressa, Trinkut, Nankowri, 
Katschall, and Great Nicobar (de Roepstorff and M/an)—all in the Nicobar Isles. 
EXPANSE: @, @, I'I to I'°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, Joth wings opalescent whitish, powdered with 
brownish towards the base, a blackish streak before the cilia. Forewing with the outer border 
somewhat fuscous, broader at the apex, divided by whitish diffused increasing spots and a sub- 
marginal line. Aindwing with external lunules somewhat fuscous in a bent series, and others 
submarginal smoky blackish-fuscous (the last but two of these larger, the last but one bent, 
transversely protracted). UNDERSIDE, Jo/h wings whitish, tinted brownish beyond the middle, 
a streak before the cilia and a series of small submarginal spots fuscous. Forewing with 
two subcostal spots, a broken discal fasciole, and another beyond it chain-shaped and an 
exterior fascia confluent formed of lunules. Azxdwing witha basal fasciole, a discal fascia, 
strongly broken at the trunks of the nervules hindwardly inflected and with a fasciole 
adherent beyond it of the ground-colour, partly circled with fuscous and bordered with whitish, 
inconspicuous, an external bent fascia of fuscous lunules covered over by a largish posterior 
spot, with a yellowish encircling lunule, and another minute subanal inwardly circled with 
luteous black, slightly sprinkled with metallic.” 
‘* This splendid species is allied to Z. alexis, Stoll (=alianus,Fabricius).” (Felder, 1. c. 
in Reise Novara.) 
L. kinkurka is by far the commonest species of the genus occurring in the Nicobars, 
The male on the upperside of the forewing has a somewhat indistinct and inwardly diffused 
submarginal very pale dusky band, then a band of lunules of the ground-colour, or of a 
rather lighter tint, then a series of blackish oval spots between the veins, outwardly defined 
by a white, and then a black marginal thread. The hindwing is similarly marked, but the 
oval blackish spots are larger and darker. The disposition of the white lines on the underside 
of the forewing is most irregular, but they are never arranged as in Z, kankena, Felder, or 
L. kondulana, Felder. The four characteristic strie may be described thus : —nos. 1 and 
2 (as in the e/fis group) arise far from the costa on the subcostal nervure; while nos, 3 and 4 
arise almost on the costa itself. Nos. 1 and 4 are short, no. 1 ending on the median nervure, 
