46 LYCANIDA. PORITIA. 
637. Poritia podiada, Hewitson. 
P. pediada, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xiii, p. 223 (1877); idem. id., Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 218, n. 11, 
pl. Ixxxix, figs. 21, 22, female (1878); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 200, n. 6, pl. xxii, fig. 16, female (1884); 
Massaga pediada, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
Hasirat: Mergui, Singapore. 
EXPANSE: 6,1'2; 2, I'I to 1'°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings velvety black. Forewing with the 
following rich bluish-green markings, varying according to the light :—one below the cell, 
clavate; one basal, below the submedian nervure, its terminal part crossing the nervure ; 
one a little beyond the cell, oblique, consisting of three quadrate spots; a submarginal row 
of six spots, the last larger, subcordate. Aindwing with a longitudinal mark in the interno- 
median interspace from the base united terminally with the inner of a row of three triangular 
spots crossing the disc; three submarginal spots in the same spaces as the discal spots, the 
middle spot small, lunular, the two outer spots semi-circular, enclosing black spots, the 
subanal one largest. UNDERSIDE, d0/h wings dull rufous-brown with a pale violet gloss. 
Forewing with a broken macular line of minute whitish spots across the disc, an outer-discal 
line of smail and very obscure pale lunules, beyond which lies a pale band, the margin 
brighter rufous. Hindwing with the base and costa dull rufous-brown, most of the rest 
irrorated with whitish scales, an obscure darker transverse [discal] line with two sagittate marks 
in the median interspaces, a submarginal dark zigzag line bordered inwardly by a pale line; 
a marginal bright reddish line bordered inwardly by slender black and white lines which do 
not extend tothe apex.” (Doherty, \.c.)° “FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark brown, 
slightly tinted with dull blue. Aindwing with the outer margin dentate near the middle, 
traversed from the dentation to the anal angle by a pale blue line. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
red-brown, crossed transversely by two bands of lilac-white, one near the middle, the other 
snbmarginal. ' Hindwing with a short band of the same colour between the others, and a 
submarginal line of white.” (Hezez¢son, 1. c. in Ill. Diurn. Lep.) 
Mr. Doherty obtained a pair of specimens of this species at Mergui, Burma, in the 
cold weather. The female differs from Hewitson’s type specimen in lacking on the upperside 
of the hindwing the pale blue line from the dentation to the anal angle, and the underside 
of the Mergui specimen can hardly be said to be traversed by two bands of lilac-white. The 
species, however, is probably variable. I append as a foot-note Mr. Doherty’s description of 
his female specimen.* The disposition of the markings of the males on the upperside in 
Poritia (? Zarona) pharyge, P. hartertii, P. phalena, P. potina, P. pediada, and P. phalia 
(Hewitson, from Borneo), is practically the same, and is quite different from that of the other 
species of the genus. 
P. pheretia, Hewitson, from Singapore, certainly belongs to this group. The male on the 
upperside of the forewing has two pale blue broad streaks from the base, the upper one 
apparently confined to the discoidal cell, the lower one on the inner margin, with a clavate 
outer end; four discal spots. Hindwing with the outer two-thirds pale blue, bearing a 
single blackish dot about the first median interspace. The female is brown on the upperside, 
the anal third of the wing lilac-white. The underside is marked much as in P. Pphalena, 
Hewitson, but the white band is much narrower. Its description is appended.t 
the lower rounded, retreating ; branches long, slender, tapering, not hooked. C/asfs with a basal tubercle on 
the upper edge, the end enlarged and bilobed, resembling a pair of pincers, the upper thickened beyond the 
base, bent down to meet the other, but with the tip recurved upwards, the lower lobe regularly curved, tapering, 
acute. The upper discoidal nervule of the forewing originates from the subcostal nervure some distance beyond 
the apex of the discoidal cell.’ 
* “Femace. Uppersine, doth wings blackish, the costa paler; ci/ia paler. UNDERSIDE, both wings 
rufous-brown, much lighter than in the male, a darker rufous streak across the end of the cell of both wings; 
a similar slender transverse discal fascia, continuous on the forewing, broken and lunular on the hindwing : 
a darker outer-discal line, obscure on the forewing, blackish subanally on the hindwing, placed in a paler band 
beyond a darker rufous band. Forewing with the margin brighter rufous. AHsadwing with some submarginal 
blackish scales near the anal angle, and a brighter rufous marginal line bordered inwardly by slender black and 
white lines subanally.” (Doherty, |. c.) 
t Poretia pheretia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 3463; idem, id., Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 217, 
n. 9, P. pheretria, pl. \xxxix, figs. 17, 18, male; 16, female (1878); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 200, 
