200 RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



4. Poritia phalena. (Tab. XXII., fig. 8 J .) 



I'oritla PhaUna, Hcwitson, Trans. Eut. 8oc. 1874, p. 344 ; Ills. Dium. Lep., Lye. p. 216, n. 8, t. 89, 

 figs. 14 & 15 S (1878). 



" Uppcrsido. Male.—VA&ck. Both wings marked by bands and spots of green. Anterior wing with 

 a longitudinal narrow band from the base to the middle, a bifid spot on the inner margin, a trifid spot near 

 the costal margin, and a submarginal series of six spots. Posterior wing with a band near the inner 

 margin, two submarginal spots, and three spots on the outer margin ; one of them, which is at the anal 

 angle, large and marked bj- a black spot." 



" Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a band of white, and beyond it 

 by a series of five grey spots. Posterior wing white, with the base and apex rufous-brown, several small 

 brown spots near the middle, followed by three larger spots of the same colour ; four large marginal spots, 

 their centre borders black." 



Exp. wings, 14t5 inch." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Singapore (Wallace — coll. Hewits.). 



5. Poritia pheretia. (Tab. XXII., figs. 9 J , 10 2 .) 



Foritia Pheretia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 34G ; Ills. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 217, u. 9, t. 89, 

 figs. 17 & 18 a' IC 5 (1878). 



" Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing black, with a band from the base to the middle, a band on the 

 inner margin, and a transverse band of four spots beyond the middle, all green-blue. Posterior wing 

 green-blue, with the costal margin and a spot below the middle dark brown." 



" Underside rufous, pale. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a band of white. Posterior wing 

 irrorated with white at the middle and crossed by a band of brown spots ; three large spots on the outer 

 margin ; the two largest at the anal angle, white bordered with black, the middle spot marked with black, 

 the outer spot black." 



" Female rufous-brown. Posterior wing with the outer half nearly lilac-white : underside like the 

 male, except that the anterior wing is crossed by a second band of white." 



Exp. wings, " liTs inch." 



H.m. — Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (Wallace — coll. Hewits.). 



(). Poritia pediada. (Tab. XXII., fig. IC ? .) 



Poritia Pediaila, Hewitson, Eut. Mo. Mag. vol. xiii. p. 223 (1877) ; Ills. Diui-n. Lap., Lye. p. 218, n. 11, t. 89, 

 figs. 21 & 2-2 $ (1878). 



" Upperside. Female. — Dark l)rowu, slightly tinted with dull blue ; outer margin of posterior wing 

 dentate near the middle, traversed from the dentation to the anal angle by a pale blue line." 



" Underside red-brown. Both wings crossed transversely by two bands of lilac-white, one near the 

 middle, the other submarginal. Posterior wing with a short band of the same colour between the others, 

 and a submarginal line of white." 



Exp. wings, " Ik, inch." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (Buxton — coll. Hewits.). 



