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another of the same colour of the same form joined to if. UNDERSIDE, both wings pale 
hoary-brownish, with a fuscous marginal streak and a silvery line before the cilia, two fascize 
before the margin which are both fuscous bordered with whitish, and macular (getting wider 
on the hindwing), Forewing with a discal fascia between the internal nervure and the upper 
discoidal nervule, and beyond it a fasciole which is unequal-sided and chain-like of the ground- 
colour, laterally bordered with fuscous and margined with whitish. indwing with a basal 
abbreviated fascia slightly broken at the subcostal nervure, an internal spot, a discal fascia, 
terminated at the subcostal nervure hindwardly bent, and another exterior abbreviated very 
strongly broken at the first subcostal nervule, hindwardly emitting a minute whitish spot of 
the same colour, an awl-shaped spot at the third median nervule, a larger hinder lunule 
encircling a large black cuneate-oval spot, most sparingly sprinkled outwardly with metal- 
lic, and a small subanal spot, placed outwardly on a rounded black spot, inwardly sprinkled 
with metallic-greenish, pale yellowish.” 
‘This splendid species is most nearly allied to the preceding [Z. kankena, Felder], 
but is distinguished from it by the production of the apex of the forewing, by the slight- 
ness of the curvature of the outer border of the hindwing, and the straightness of the margin 
between the first subcostal and the second median nervules of thehindwing.” (Felder, I.c., in 
Reise Novara.) 
Inthe Indian Museum, Calcutta, are a pair only of this species taken by the Iate Mr. 
F. A. de Roepstorff, on the island of Nankowri in the Nicobars. The male is easily dis- 
tinguished from all other species known to me by having short black streaks (striolze) 
between the veins just within the anteciliary fine black thread on the upperside of the fore- 
wing, from which black thread they are separated by an obsolete white line, on which (as Felder 
States) they are seated ; on the hindwing these striolz are produced in an increasing series of 
spots, the largest of which is round and in the first median interspace, and beyond which are two 
black transverse lines, one above the other, from the first median nervule to the abdominal 
margin. On the underside also the markings are very distinctive, there being a pair of strict- 
ly continuous white lines (characteristic striz nos. I and 2) on the forewing from the sub- 
costal to the submedian nervure enclosing the disco-cellular nervules, with a shorter pair 
of lines beyond (nos. 3 and 4), the inner line from the subcostal nervure to the second 
median nervule, the outer line also from the subcostal nervure, but terminating on the 
third median nervule. These are the four ‘characteristic’ striae, and it will be seen that they 
agree almost exactly with those of Z. e/pis, and are quite distinct from those of Z. elianus. 
‘These insects, in fact, have the general aspect of Z. @lianus above and of ZL. elpis below. 
They are of the ‘wet-season’ coloration. The female differs from the male on the up- 
perside of the forewing in having a broad outer dusky margin, which widens out very 
much at the apex. The hindwing has the marginal series of black spots rather larger than 
in the male, with an inner submarginal lunular blackish band, which also is faintly present 
in the male. Underside marked like the male. I may add that the female has been 
identified by Mr. Moore, and also by Herr A. F, Rogenhofer, of the Vienna Natural History 
Museum, who has compared the specimen with Felder’s type. Mr. Moore also identifies the 
male as Z. Zondulana, and both sexes agree with Felder’s figure in the arrangement of the four 
white discal lines on the underside of the forewing, which is a very notable distinctive 
character of the species, and serves to distinguish it from the other Nicobar form Z, 4inkurka, 
which has an entirely different arrangement of the characteristic striae : while L. kankena appears 
to have the same arrangement as LZ. 4ondulana, from which it differs only in the absence 
on the upperside of the above-noted dark striolz on the outer margin of the forewing of 
the male. Z. Zondulana and L. kankena may be geographical varieties, the former perhaps is 
restricted to the islands of Nankowriand Kondul, while the latter occurs only on Kar Nicobar. 
Mr. Moore records this species from the Andamans (Port Blair), but this is probably a mistake, 
as he does not give Z. @lianus, Fabricius, from thence, though undoubtedly it occurs very 
commonly. 
