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635. Porltia hartertil, Doherty. 
P. hartertii, Doherty, Journ., A.S. B, vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
Hapirat: Upper Assam. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1°3 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE, UPPERSIDE, doth wings black, markings seen from above lustrous 
sea-green, from any other direction more or less bluish ; the tips of the scales being blue and 
slightly tilted downwards. orewiig with six submarginal spets, the upper five small and sub- 
equal, arranged in a linear series ; the lower slightly nearer the base, oblong and much longer 
than the others ; a slender oblique fascia beyond the cell, divided by the discoidal nervules 
into three parts, the lowest langest ; a stripe along the lower side of the median nervure extend- 
ing to the base,a small part of it lying beyond the first median nervule, which divides it ; 
beyond this a wide transverse discal spot, divided by the second median nervule into two portions 
outwardly dehiscent ; another stripe along the hind margin almost from the base, the outer end 
inclined upwards, with’a minute spot above its termination, separated from it by the submedian 
nervure. Héndwing with a large pale costal area, a tuft of long hairs appressed in the direction of 
the apex placed en a gland which forms a raised elliptical line on the underside above the origin 
of the first subcostal nervule; four submarginal spots, a diffused one extending from the 
median nervure half-way to the submedian nervure ; a large obliquely-semicircular one dark in 
the middle in the first median interspace, a narrow crescent close to the marginal black line in 
the third median interspace, and a small diffused spot in the next interspace, partly united 
with the upper discal spot; three discal spots, one occupying the submedian interspace from 
its base, constricted in the middle, the end clavate and occupying the whole breadth of the inter- 
space, beyond this two spots of moderate size in the median interspaces discally. UNDERSIDE, 
botk wings rufous-brown with a slight bluish gloss. Forewing with a broad white band beyond 
the cell from the costa (where it is narrowest) almost to the hind margin ; beyond it a broad space 
of darker richer brown, then a row of seven delicate whitish transverse submarginal streaks, of 
which the upper three are most distinct, crescent-shaped ; the others obscure and irregular ; 
beyond these a paler space, with three whitish streaks, parallel with and close to,the upper three of 
the inner series ; margin chestnut-brewn ; ci/ia chiefly light. Hindwing, basal part unmarked , 
a broad white band crossing the wing from the costa, occupying the outer third of the cell, its 
inner margin well-defined, and but slightly irregular ; the disc is covered with large rufous- 
brown markings in two very irregular series ; the first four (those above the discoidal nervule) 
on a white ground, the others ona ground obscurely clouded with violet and whitish scales ; 
two of these spots in the inner series and the median interspaces are much larger than the 
others, the outer one quadrate ; a dark wavy outer discal line extends in a white ground to the 
third median nervule, where it is interrupted, and from there to the anal angle on a whitish 
ground ; marginal line orange-brown, bordered inwardly by a silvery line, between which and 
the wavy discal line are, in the second median interspace, a blackish area, in the first median 
terminal border fuscous, this divided by two macular fasciz of the ground-colour (the interior much shorter), 
and with.a disco-cellular litura_fulvous-reddish circled with blackish. Hindwing with the interior border 
palely fuscous, the external margin broadly fuscous, divided by lunules and an antecillary streak of the ground- 
colour. UNDERSIDE, doth qwings as in. the male, but the submarginal spots inwardly triangular.” 
**In many respects a very distinct species. The head is small, the eyes naked, the antenne gradually 
clavated, the subcostal nervure of the forewing only two-branched, and the costal nervure of the hindwing 
short. The male has on the upperside of the hindwing along the cell-fold a tuft of fine hairs, and shows on 
the underside of the forewing, on the lower side of the median nervure, a shining spot thinly covered with 
scales. The costal margin of the hindwing is in this sex, towards the base, widened out raggedly. (Felder, l.c.) 
Poritia sumatre, var.? Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 198, pl. xx, fig. 12, female (1884). HaBiraT: 
Malacca. Expanse: | Female,’ 1°5 inches. “‘This figure represents the female specimen collected by 
Capt. Pinwill and contained in the British Museum, which has been identified by Mr. Butler as belon ing 
to Felder’s species. The differences, however, between that author’s figure and the specimen thus identified 
are so considerable that it is probable that the female of another species has been confused with that of Felder.” 
(Distant, \. c.) The differences between these two figures are chiefly as follows :—In Felder’s the ground-colour 
is much deeper blue, in Distant’s it is pale violet ; Distant’s figure does not show the outer portions of all the 
veins bearing fulvous-fuscous streaks, this being a conspicuous feature in Felder’s specimen; and on the 
underside the markings of Distant’s specimen are wider, apparently fewer, and much less distinct than those 
shewn on the underside of Felder’s male specimen ; the only difference that Felder gives in the markings of the 
underside of both sexes is that in the female the submarginal spots are inwardly triangular. If Mr. Distant 
had fully described his specimen it would have been easier to judge whether it represented a species distinct 
from P. sumatre or not. 
