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and no. 4 on the second median nervule. Sometimes no. 2 is short instead of no. 1, and 
ends on the median nervure, in which case no. 1 is long and is continued almost to the inner 
margin, and all fotr strize are parallel. No. 3 extends continuously nearly to the inner 
margin, though it is slightly dislocated where it crosses the second median nervuley the 
dislocation tending to shift the lower portion inwardly towards the base, and this inward 
shifting is sometimes carried to quite a considerable extent. No. 2 is carried continuously 
almost to the inner margin ; butit also is liable to considerable dislocation, the lower portion 
being shifted towards the base, so that sometimes it almost reaches no, I stria. This arrange- 
ment presents the appearance of a Y, more or less perfect or distorted, formed by nos. 1 and 2 
strie ; which is followed by a long continuous stria across the wing (no. 3), and a short 
one beyond (no. 4). When the location of the Y is perfect it is as in Z. sebdita, Moore 3 
while Z. @lianus, Fabricius (usually), Z. psexdelpis, Butler, and Z, pura, Moore, have the Y 
intermediate between strie nos. I and 4; and JZ. e/pis, Godart, Z. hondulana, Felder, 
and Z. sankena, Felder, have no appearance of a Y at all. 
Mr. Wood-Mason and I have twice recorded Z. @lianus from the Nicobars; this is 
incorrect, however, the specimens belonged to the present species. Mr. Moore has had equal 
difficulty in recognising the species, as he has identified several specimens of it for the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, as Z. 4ankena, an apparently distinct species or geographical race occurring 
in Kar Nicobar only, and having a distinct striation on the underside. 
Mr. E. H. Man and the late Mr. A. R. de Roepstorff have both sent numerous 
specimens of a Lampides from the island of Great Nicobar, which differ from specimens of 
L. kinkurka from the other islands of the Nicobars enumerated above in being larger, and in 
having the upperside of both sexes leaden (sooty) instead of opalescent whitish. The 
striation of the underside agrees with that of typical Z. inkurka, and I do not consider 
this local race as of sufficient distinctness to deserve a specific name to be applied to it. 
Another species ofthis group which has been described as below* from the Malay 
Peninsula, is probably only a variety of Z. e/ianus, though it is kept distinct by Mr. Distant. 
The characteristic striae are arranged as follows :—Nos. 1 and 2 strie forma Y¥, of which the 
two arms are, of course, the short upper portions of the striae ; no. 3 striais continuous from the 
costa to the inner margin ; no. 4stria is short, and runs from the costa to the second median 
nervule. The subanal spot to the hindwing is as im typical Z. elianus. 
741. Lampides kondulana, Felder. 
Lycena kondulana, Felder, Verh. zool-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 484, n. 118 (1862) ; idem, id., 
Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 271, ne 332, pl. xxxiv, fig. 6, male (1865) ; Lampides kondulana, Moore, Proc, 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 588. 
Hasirar: Kondul Island (Fé/der), Nankowri (de Roepstorf{), both of the Nicobars ; 
2? Andamans (JZoore). 
ExpANSE: ¢, 9, 1'4 to I'5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: * MALE. UPpeERSIDE, both wings bluish-whitish, slightly shining, a 
fuscous striga before the cilia. Forewing with diffused fuscous striole before the margin, 
outwardly resting on an obsolete white line. Hindwing with rather larger fuscous spots 
before the margin, outwardly margined with whitish, the last but one the largest of all, and 
darker ; the anal one transversely lengthened, inwardly also margined with whitish and with 
* Lampides optimus, Rober. Plebeius optimus, Rober, Iris, vol. i, p. 56, pl-iv, fig. 16, female (1886) ; id., 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 456, n. 5, woodcut n. 127, female (1886). Hanitat : Perak, East Celebes (Rédber), 
Borneo (Distant). Expanse: Male and female, 11 to 1°25 inches. DescripTion : ‘“‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, both 
wings whitish-blue, the white markings of the underside showing through. Forewing with the exterior margin 
greyish-brown. Hindwing with a darker marginal line, wner margin whitish, and with white cilia, darker at 
the nervules; ¢az/ with a_white tip. UNDERSIDE, foth wings light fawn-gray with white markings, 
Forewing with the inner margin whitish. Hindwing with the black spot between the first and second mediart 
nervules enclosed in broad orange, at the sides dusted with metallic green ; at the anal angle a smaller 
blacker spot enclosed in orange. FRMALR. UprersiDE, forewing with a broad dark grey exterior margin. 
Hindwing with a series of darker white-encircled spots on the exterior margin. UNDERSIDB, doth wings asin 
the male. Zhorax bluish ; aédomen dark above, whitish below ; fectus the same ; antenna black, ringed with 
white ; falfi black above, white below ; /egs black outside, white within ; ¢a7s¢ ringed with black,” (Adder, hoy 
