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both of whioh are f ootid in the same locality as that which we understand as the typical form 

 of L. alianu&n 



Mr # Biggs writes that in Malacca this species is " found in numbers under the shade of 

 tall thick-foliaged forest trees."* 



The larva and pupa, as found in Java, have been figured from the drawings of Dr. Hors- 

 fieldjt and we are likewise indebted to the Bros, de Alwis for drawings of tlie same as observed 

 in Ceylon, J The last are thus described : — (i Larva omsciform ; green or violet -brown* with a 

 dark dorsal and lateral black lines. Pupa pale violet-brown/' § According to Dr. Horsfield, 

 the larva "feeds on the Bntta fromlosa f \\ and was observed in the month of February 

 in Java."f 



3. Lampides kankena. (Tab* XX., % 18 J t and 11 ?.) 



Lyctma Jumkma, Folder, Verb. ZooU Bot, Ges. xii. p, 481, n. 106 (1862)); Reise Nov. Lcp. iL p. 270, n. 881, 

 t, 34, f. 37 (1805). 



Ltiuipid* Km\kena f Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 588; Wood-Ma?. & Nic. J. A.S.B. vol. l. p. 285, 

 fi, S8 (1881 ju 



Lampidm Kwikem t Butl. Trnns. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, vol, i. p. 547, ft. 10 (1877). 



Cwpfefo Giir\dm y Bruce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 949, n. 13, t. 82, f. 0. 



Lampides CanUea, Bull, Trans. linn. Soc, ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547 f n. 7 (1877). 



Mnle. Wings above dark, shining, azure-blue; anterior wings with tbe costal margin narrowly and 

 tbe outer margin (especially at apes) rather more broadly blackish ; posterior wings with the outer margin 

 narrowly blackish, and with two transverse black lines outwardly margined with whitish at anal angle ; 

 tail-like appendage black, with the apex white. Wings beneath dark greyish-brown, with a plumbeous 

 tinge, and crossed by tbe following greyish -white linear fa scire arranged in pairs : — anterior wings with two 

 crossing end of cell and tben dislocated and extending to inner margin, followed by two, likewise dislocated, 

 commencing near costa, and terminating at tipper median nervule, continued by a short, single intermediate 

 one reaching the central median nervule, two submarginal and one marginal; posterior wings with three 

 pairs more or less dislocated, two waved submarginal and one marginal ; a large black marginal spot 

 containing a few scattered bluish scales and inwardly broadly surrounded with ochraceous situate between 

 second and third median nervules, and at anal angle a black transverse angulated streak, margined with 

 greyish-white and inwardly bordered by a few bluish scales and a small ochraceous spot. Body above 

 with the thorax more or less concolorous with wings, the abdomen greyish-brown, with the lateral 

 segmental incisures greyish -white ; body beneath greyish-white j legs fuscous, more or less annulated with 

 greyish, the femora wholly greyish beneath. 



Female- Wings above with the blue coloration less resplendent, the anterior wings with the apex 

 and outer margin more broadly blackish ; posterior wings with a marginal row of blackish spots bordered 

 with greyish, placed between the nervules, that at anal angle transversely linear and angulated. Wings 

 beneath as in male, the ochraceous margining of tin stthaual spot larger and more diffused. 



Exp* wings, <? & ? t *25 to 3*2 millim. 



Hab« — Nicobar Islands : Kur Nicolmr (Folder). — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Biggs — coll. Diet.). 

 —Malacca (Pin will— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Diet.); Singapore (Kerr— colL Dist.). — Borneo (Druce). 



* 1 Uontlu Packot,' vol. ii. p. 191 (1881). + Horsf. & Moor*, Cat. Lop. Mus. E. I, C. vol. L i. 1, f. 1 T la. 



| Moore's Lep. Coyl, i. t. 88, f. So. S Ibid. p. itf. 



Hie "dlmk tree," which in Northern India affords a tannin substance from its inner bark, a yellow tlye from its 

 flowers, whiltit the lac insects depotdt ** lurid red learn" on its twigs. 



Ii Horsf* & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I« C. vol. L p. 25. 

 June 30, 1884. 8 H 



