362 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



line of a paler shade of brown than the ground-colour, the discal line- 

 on the forewing is dislocated at the third median nervule, its posterior 

 portion being shifted inwardly ; on the hindwing this line is highly 

 zigzaged throughout its course, and whereas on the forewing it is 

 straight, on the hindwing it is highly curved, following the outline 

 of the outer margin of the wing ; there are also traces in the hindwing 

 of a third line from the third median nervule to the abdominal 

 margin placed anterior to the discal line, this inner discal line being 

 very prominent in the male ; the submarginal line much more distinct 

 on the hindwing than on the forewing, more lunular, and towards the 

 anal angle outwardly denned with black narrowly ; a conspicuous 

 marginal lia-ht blue line from the third median nervule to the anal 

 angle, narrowly defined on both sides with black and constricted on the 

 interspaces between the veins ; this blue line is followed by a very 

 fine orange line on the extreme margin. 



Nearest to Poritia pediada, Hewitson, from which it may at once 

 be known by the presence of the light blue marginal line on the 

 underside of the hindwing. 



I am indebted to Mr. J. "Wray, Junior, for a pair of specimens of 

 this lovely species captured in Perak ; from one of these the above 

 description is taken. The male on the upperside hardly differs in 

 the smallest detail from the same sex of SimisHna pediada, Hewitson, 

 of which Mr. Doherty has lent me a specimen taken by himself in 

 Mergui, Burma. On the underside, however, the two species differ 

 widely in both sexes. 



13. SIM1SKINA PHEPETIA, Hewitson. 



Poritia pheretia, Hewitson, Trans. Enb. Soc. Lond , 1874, p. 346 5 idem, id., 

 111. Diurn, Lep., p. 217, n. 9, P. plieretria, pi. lxxxix, figs. 17, 18, male ; 16, female 

 (1878) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 200, n. 5, pi. xxii, fig. 9, male ; 10, 

 female (1884) ; id., de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. iii, p. 46 (1890). 



Habitat: Singapore {Hew itson); Perak. 



Mr. J. Wray, Junior, has kindly sent me a single damaged male speci- 

 men of what I believe to be this species. The blue coloration of the 

 upperside is much darker and richer than is shown in Hewitson's 

 figure, being of quite an ultramarine-blue tint ; the blue spots on the 

 forewing are larger, as is also the black spot in the middle of the 

 blue area on the hindwing, which really consists of two conjoined 



