LYCANID A. PORITIA 4! 
EXPANSE: @, 1°35 to 1°60; 2, 1‘20 (Hewitson), 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, o/h wings brilliant blue. /orewing with the 
costal margin and apical half, which is marked by two blue spots, dark brown. Aindwing with 
the costal margin broadly brown ; the outer margin black, spotted with white. UNDERSIDE, - 
both wings white, crossed everywhere by rufous bands and spots, and marked near the outer 
margin by a series of singularly-formed spots. Forewing with a black spot at the anal angle. 
Hindwing with three black spots ; the spot nearest the anal angle crowned with orange.” 
{ ewitson, 1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) ‘‘ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings cerulean- 
blue, clouded at the base. Forewing with the apical half dark brown, crossed by five pale 
blue spots. Aindwing with the costal and outer margins dark brown, the outer margin marked 
by two black spots crowned with blue.” ( Hezw/tson, 1. c. in Ill. Diurn. Lep.) 
In the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, is a pair of what I consider o be this species from the 
Karen Hills, Burma, the male taken in February, the female in April, and in my own collection 
are numerous others from the same locality taken from February to April. The males agree 
very fairly on the upperside with Hewitson’s figure, but the two subapical blue spots (in my speci- 
mens there are from three to five) described on the forewing are not shown. In the figure referred 
to there is a small black streak in the submedian interspace of the forewing, which is lacking in 
most of my specimens, The hindwing is entirely blue except the costal margin, which is black, and 
the abdominal margin, which is whitish ; the outer margin is marked with a rather broad black 
line having a small irrorated indistinct black spot in each interspace within it, the cilia whitish. 
The shade of blue is a little lighter than in P. Aezw#¢sont, Moore, but similarly changeable to brilliant 
emerald-green in some lights. The underside of the males of my specimens differs from that 
figured by Hewitson in that all the markings are rather less prominent. The female differs 
entirely from that sex of P. hezwitsoni, being a blue insect with some black markings on the 
upperside, instead of a black insect with some blue and orange markings. My specimen 
agrees very fairly with Hewitson’s figure of that sex, but is much larger, the blue coloration 
paler than in the male, but brighter than in Hewitson’s figure. The hindwing has the 
outer margin black divided by a narrow lunular blue line, with a fine rufous line on the 
margin, defined on both sides by still finer black and blue lines, the rufous line defined by black 
continued on to the margin of the forewing. The underside agrees very closely with the figure 
of the underside of the male by Hewitson. I also possess two more males which probably 
belong to this species, both taken by Major C. T. Bingham, one in the Thoungy een Forests 
in April, the other in the Meplay Valley in January. They both have a single subapical blue 
spot on the upperside of the forewing, and one specimen has a series of irrorated submarginal 
black spots on the hindwing in addition to the marginal series. The undersides of these speci- 
mens are variable, one is marked prominently with blackish, the other with ferruginous, the 
latter agrees very well with Hewitson’s figure. 
The figure shows both sides of a female example from the Karen Hills, Burma, now 
deposited in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon. 
634. Boritia phraatica, Hewitson. 
P. phraatica, Hewitson, ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 214, 0. 2; pl. Ixxxviii, fig. 2, female (878) ; id., Elwes and 
de Nicéville, Journ, A, S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 430, n. 102 (1886) ; id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, 
vol. xxi, p. 38 (1886); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 199, n. 2, pl. xxi, fig. 21, male; pl. xxiv, fig. 8, female 
(1884); P. pleurata, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 346 (female only). 
HasitTat: Mergui, Ponsekai, Province Wellesley, Singapore. 
EXPANSE: ¢, 'I to 1°43 2, 1'25 to 1°40 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. Allied to the male of P. swmatre, Felder, but larger, and with 
the black area of the forewing on the UPPERSIDE smaller, its inner margin somewhat concavely 
occupying the end of the cell, after which it is more or less contexly continued to the first 
median nervule, and is then marginally continued to the angle, where there is a short 
black streak along the submedian nervure. UNDERSIDE, both wings with the markings 
closely resembling those of P. sematr@, but much paler in hue.” (Distant, l.c.) “ FEMALE. 
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