72 LEPinOPTERA INDICA. 



Female. Upperside coloured like the male. Forewlng with broad, black, costal 

 and outer marginal bands ; broadest at the apex, narrowing towards the base and 

 towards the hinder angle. Hindwing with terminal black line, a sub-terminal white 

 band, inwardly edged with a pale blackish somewhat lunular thin band, and containing 

 a series of black spots, one in each interspace, the largest in interspace 2. Underside 

 as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? I5 inches. 



Habitat. — The Nicobar Islands. 



JAMIDES KANKENA. 

 Plate 656, figs. 3, (J , 3a, $ . 



Lycsena Jcanlcena, Felder, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 481 (1862); id. Raise, Nov. Lep. ii. 



p. 270, pi. 34, lig. 37, (J (1865). 

 Lampides hanhena, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 174 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, 



Butt. ii. p. 408, pi. 20, fig. 148 (1907). 

 Lampides rogersi, Bingham, I.e. p. 409. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside shining silvery azure-blue, of a brighter and more 

 beautiful tint than any Indian species of this genus ; some of the white markings of 

 the underside visible through the wings. Forewing with the costal and terminal line 

 finely black. Cilia black. Hindwing with the terminal line black, a sub-terminal 

 Ijroad whitish line, a sub-terminal black spot in interspace 2, a sinuous black line from 

 it to the anal angle where there is a white dot ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia 

 brown, with a middle white line. Underside, chocolate-brown, markings white. 

 Forewing with a double line across the end of the cell, both continued to near the 

 hinder margin, outwardly oblique and ending close to the sub-terminal series ; two 

 outwardly curved short lines from near the costa, the inner one to vein 3, the outer to 

 vein 2. Hindwing with two antemedial lines, a third line disconnected in inter- 

 .space 6, a series of two short lines in interspaces 7 and 6, a series of three lines in 

 interspaces 7, 6, and 5, a sixth line complete across the wing, line 2, angled, 3 and 6 

 curved, all turning in on the abdominal margin ; both wings with black terminal line 

 and black cilia ; an anteciliary white line and a double series of short white lines or 

 lunular marks interrupted in interspace 2 of the hindwing by a large sub-terminal black 

 spot and a smaller one in interspace 1, both with some metallic blue scales and capped 

 with orange. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body above blue like the 

 colour of the wings, white below. 



Female, unknown. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly\y inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



