42 LYCANID/, PORITEA. 
UppERSIDE, 40/h wings rufous-brown. Forewing with a large medial, oval, orange spot. 
Hindwing with a medial band and two submarginal spots orange, a marginal band of linear 
white spots. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white, crossed by several bands of pale brown spots. 
Forewing with a black spot at the anal angle. _ Hindwing with three submarginal black spots, 
and an orange spot near the anal angle.” (ewitson, |. c. in Ill. Diurn. Lep.) *f FEMALE. 
UppERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown. Forewing with a large orange medial spot. Hindwing 
with an oblique medial band and three spots of orange near the outer margin, a submarginal 
linear band of white. UNDERSIDE, 0th wings like the male [of P.. pleurata, Hewitson], 
but less crowded with spots.” (Hewztson, 1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) fe 
“* A pair of this pretty species from Ponsekai, Tavoy, so named by Mr. Moore. The male 
does not at all agree with Distant’s figure of this species. It seems near the P. sumatre, 
Felder, but is quite distinct.” (A/wes and de Nicéville, 1. c.) 
‘‘Three males and one female were collected by Dr. Anderson in the Mergui Archi- 
pelago. The female is identical with Mr. Hewitson’s type, figured as above. One of the 
males has a broad lower basal cobalt-blue patch with an outer lobe protruding towards the 
posterior angle [in the submedian interspace], and a partly confluent curved series of subapical 
spots ; and the lower half of the hindwing has a similar-coloured patch with a marginal row of 
blackish oval spots. In the other male the blue is of a decidedly ultramarine tint, and the 
patch on the forewing has a medial black streak. The markings on the underside of the 
males are exactly like those on the female.” (AZvore, 1. c.) 
As pointed out above, P. phraatica seems to be as variable a species in the male as 
P. hewitsoni, Moore. The extent and distribution of the blue coloration is the same 
in both species on the upperside, but whereas in P. Aewitsont it changes from blue to 
emerald-green in some lights, in P. phraatica this is never the case.* The female differs 
considerably from P. hewitsoni, as it has no blue markings whatever on the upperside ; the 
extent of the orange markings is very variable, in some examples occupying half the ‘surface. 
Both sexes are smaller also.. I give below Mr. Distant’s description of the female, as he has 
not described the typical form.t } - 
Inthe Indian Museum, Calcutta, are four males and two females of this species from 
Mergui and Tavoy. 
To judge from the character of the markings of P. sumatra, Yelder, as figured, it belongs 
to this group. The male has a single broad green streak on the inner margin of the forewing 
on the upperside, cleft at its outer end; the lower three-quarters of the hindwing green, the 
remainder of both wings black. The female is pale violet-blue on the upperside with black 
margins, bearing two series of spots of the ground-colour on the forewing ; the outer ends of all 
the veins marked with yellowish. The underside is marked with numerous closely-placed 
bands, less annular than in P. Aewitsoni and allies. Its description is appended.= 
* Since the above statement regarding the unchangability of the coloration of the upperside of the male 
was written, Mr. Doherty assures me that this character is not a constant one, but that in Tenasserim he 
found changeless blue and changeable blue to green males of P. hewitsoni, var. tavoyana flying together, and 
that they almost certainly represent one species. If this character breaks down, it appears that there is no 
other by which the males of P. phraatica can be distinguished from that sex of P. hewitson?, Moore. Mr. Dis- 
tant’s figure of the male shews a green insect. ary. 
+ ‘FEMALE UPppPeERSIDE, doth wings bright ochraceous. Forewing with the costal, outer and inner margins 
broadly dark brown. Hindwing with the basal half (notched posteriorly), a broad fascia occupying the margin 
from apex to the third median nervule, and then deflected transversely across the wing to a little above the anal 
angle, and three large conical marginal spots separated by the median nervules dark brown. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings as in the male, but much paler. The female specimen here figured is paler on the hindwing than 
depicted by Hewitson’s figure, and is evidently a slight variety of the species.” 
{ Poritia sumatre, Felder. Pseudodipsas sumatra, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 259, n. 306, 
pl. xxxvi, figs. 24. 25, male ; 26, female (1865) ; Poritia sumatre, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn, Lep., Lycenide, p. 218, 
n. 12 (1878); id., Butler, Trans. Linn, Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 546, m. 1 (1877); 
id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 198,n. 1, pl. xxii, fig. 2, stale; 3» feprale (1884). Hasitat : Penang, 
Singapore, Sumatra. Expanse: Male, 1°25; female, 1°40 inches. DescripTion: ‘‘MaLe. UPPERSIDE, 
both wings pale greenish-cyaneous, in certain positions vividly green. Forewing with more than the 
anterior two-thirds and an anal vittula fuscous. H/indwing with the costal border and the posterior margin 
before the cilia fuscous. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings hoary-brownish, with numerous _ochraceous-fulvous 
markings circled with fuscous and arranged in fascia, and a submarginal series of rhombic spots paler than 
the ground, with fulvous pupils powdered with black. FEMALE. Uppersipe, doth wings pale violaceous- 
cyaneous, with fulvous-fuscous vittule near the tips of the inferior nervules, Forewing with the costal and 
