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99. Ahisara telesia. 

 Ahisara telesia, Hewitson, Ex, Butt. ii. Tax. t. i. figs. 1, 2 (1861). 



100. Ahisara orphna. 

 Emesis orphna, Boisduval, Sp, G^n. i. t. xxi. fig. 4 (1836). 



Fani. Lycaenidae. 



101. Poritia pelloma, n. sp. 



Male. Anterior wings above shining bluish green, the costal 

 and outer margins and a large discal patch black; tlie 

 black costal margin is more or less broken at a short distance 

 from base ; the discal patch occupies the posterior half of cell 

 and terminates in an " hourglass-shaped " spot bounded by the 

 lower median nervule and the submedian nervure ; the outer 

 margin is broken and contains four bluish-green spots : poste- 

 rior wings above very dark plumbaginous, with a central 

 longitudinal bluish-green streak, the fringe greyish, inwardly 

 blackish. Wings beneath somewhat similar to those of P. 

 ^leurattty Hew. 



Exp. wings 30 millira. 



102. Curetis minima^ n. sp. 



Male. Wings above pale, shining, reddish, inclining to 

 dark orange-yellow; costal, outer and inner margins, and 

 apex of anterior wings dark fuscous, the dark apical coloration 

 occupies end of cell, and the inner marginal dark border is 

 somewhat obsolete near the middle, the extreme base of wing 

 is also more or less infuscated : posterior wings with the costal, 

 outer, and subabdominal margins dark fuscous, broadest at 

 anal angle, the abdominal margin pale greyish brown. Wings 

 beneath pearly grey, more or less covered with minute dark 

 speckles : anterior wings with the apical area palely infus- 

 cated, a discocellular spot at end of cell and a submarginal 

 row of very small spots dark fuscous, a discal waved and 

 broken series of obscure lunulate spots outwardly margined 

 with fuscous, between which and outer margin is a very 

 obscure brownish fascia : posterior wings similar to anterior, 

 but without the dark discocellular spot to cell. 



Female. Wings above dark fuscous : anterior wings with a 

 large central orange-yellow patch, as in C. msulari's : poste- 

 rior wings with a larger central orange-yellow patch than in 

 C. insulan's, and which is very obscurely and narrowly con- 

 nected with base. Wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, cJ 25 millim., $ 28 millim. 

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