174 LYCENIDA, - LAMPIDES. 
742. Lampides kankena, Felder. 
Lycena kankena, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol, xii, p. 481, n. 106 (1862); dem, id., Reise 
Novara, Lep.,, vol. ii, ps 270, n. 331, pl. xxxiv, fig. 37, male (1865)« 
HaBITaAT: Kar Nicobar (Fe/der). 
EXPANSE: @, 1°35 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘*MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale silvery-blue, with a fuscous striga 
before the cilia. Forewing with the apical border darker. Hindwing with an obsolete whitish 
submarginal streak, an anal spot transversely protracted and two small strize set on it fuscous 
circled with whitish, UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale hoary-fuscous, a silvery line before the 
cilia, interrupted at the veins in the hindwing, before it a fuscous streak, inwardly defined 
with a whitish streak (macular on the hindwing). Forewing with an abbreviated discal fascia 
and a fasciole beyond it, emitting a litura of the ground-colour, laterally circled with fuscous 
and whitish, a pair of submarginal fascize with connate spots a little darker than the ground- 
colour, circled with whitish. Aindzwing with a basal fascia strongly broken at the subcostal 
nervure, an internal spot, a discal fascia, ceasing at the second subcostal nervule, hindwardly 
bent, and another beyond it, abbreviated broader, terminated at the third median nervule and 
there emitting a whitish litura, strongly broken at the subcostal nervules, all of the ground- 
colour, circled with fuscous and whitish, two submarginal fasciz, with spots darker than the 
ground-colour, and circled with whitish, connate, a large hinder black spot, inwardly encircled 
with a luteous lunule, outwardly dotted with metallic and a minute subanal black spot, bordered 
inwardly with luteous, outwardly bordered with metallic.” 
“Is similar to Z, memea, Felder, from Amboina, in the coloration of the upperside, but 
has more resemblance to Z. amphissa, Felder, from Batjan, in the shape of the wings. The 
underside, however, is very different from that of either of these species.” (Felder, 1. c. in 
Reise Novara.) 
Dr. Felder only figures the underside of this species ; and in this the white lines of the 
forewing appear to be arranged muchas in Z. kondulana, Felder, the pair on either side of 
the disco-cellular nervules (characteristic striz nos. I and 2) being continued in a straight 
line to the submedian nervure ; no. 3 stria reaches the second and no. 4 stria the third median 
nervule ; and these two latter strize are parallel to one another. ‘The description of the fascize 
of the underside of the forewing is generally asin that of ZL. kondulana, Felder. Ihave not 
seen any specimens which exactly fit Felder’s description ; and although Mr. Moore identified 
for the Indian Museum, Calcutta, as “ probably Z. Aankena,” insects taken by the late Mr. F. 
A. de Roepstorff and Mr. E. H. Man on Great Nicobar, these cannot, however, belong to this 
species owing to a distinct striation below, and are considered by me to be a local race of LZ. 
kinkunka, Felder. L. kankena may be confined to Kar Nicobar Island, taking there the place of 
L. kondulana, Felder, to which it is very closely allied, and from which it may be difficult 
to separate it as a distinct species. I should add that Z. xemea is figured with the coloration 
of the e/fzs group, and, as L. kankena is said to be coloured in the male on the upperside as in 
L. nemea, it may not belong to this group at all, though the words “ pale silvery-blue” would 
seem to show that it belongs to the e/ianus group. 
I append a description of Z. mavakata, Doherty, MS,.* from Perak, It is the only species 
of the genus which is green instead of blue on the upperside. 
* Lampides marakata, n. sp., Doherty, MS. Hasirat: Padang Rangas, Perak. Expanse: Not given, 
DescrivTion : ** MaLe. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the base and disc from the inner margin to just above 
the discoidal cell light green of a peculiar shade and a satiny lustre, the margin very widely and evenly 
and the costa more narrowly black, occupying more than half of the surface, more or less sprinkled with 
green scales near the green area. Cuzl/ia obscurely whitish at tip, Aéndwéing with the basal third partially, 
the cell wholly green; a slender purplish marginal line interrupted at the ends of the veins; a similar sub- 
marginal line extending from the second median nervule to the abdominal margin, enclosing with the other 
a very dark band. UnbErSIDE, doth wings uniform grey, marked very much as in ZL, @/éanus, Fabricius. 
Forewing with the transverse white markings broken, the lower ones placed below the disco-cellular band as if 
in continuation of them. Aindwing with a large orange ocellus with a black and metallic centre; a black: 
marginal and a white submarginal line. Cz/ia white at base, grey at tip.” 
“ This species has, like the others of the genus, its characteristic form of prehensores. Seen from the side* 
the clasp is divided into two longitudinal horizontal lobes, the lower thick at base then narrowed, the end, 
