460 LYC.SNIDJ3. 



b' 2 . Upperside tore wing: subterminal 

 transverse series of blue spots with- 

 out ochraceous short lines between, 



separated only by the ground-colour. P. pletirata, p. 464. 

 />. Upperside fore wing : without any blue 



colouring P. phraattca, p. 46o. 



B. Underside : markings similar to the males 

 under B in above Key *. 



. Upperside : ground-colour yellow P. phalia, p. 467. 



b. Upperside : ground-colour brownish black. P. pediada, p. 469. 



776. Poritia hewitsoni (PI. XIX, figs. 144 <j, 145 $ ), Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1865, p. 77 o, pi. 41, fig. 10 J ; Hewitson, III. Di. Lep. 

 1878, p. 214, pi. 88, tig. 1 $ ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p.. 39. 



d . Upperside : deep velvety black ; posterior halves of both 

 fore and hind wings more or less shining cobalt-blue that in some 

 lights turns to brilliant emerald-green. On the fore wing the 

 blue is restricted to the basal area below the cell, extended in 

 interspaces 1 a and 1 further towards the terminal margin ; it is 

 also interrupted in the middle of the latter interspace by an elon- 

 gate spot of the black ground-colour ; apical half of the wing 

 crossed beyond apex of cell by a raore or less incomplete curved 

 series of blue spots which in some specimens are absent, but when 

 present the subcostal spots form an obliquely placed short bar, the 

 lower spots remaining well separated. Hind wing: costal and 

 dorsal margins somewhat broadly fuscous, not velvety black ; blue 

 area pear-shaped, not extended quite to the termen, with an outer 

 and inner row of ill-defined small black spots and the anterior 

 margin indented irregularly by the ground-colour. Underside: 

 grey, varying from light dove-grey to dark grey, with a faint 

 brownish tint. Fore and hind wings transversely crossed by 

 slender zigzag golden-brown lines that are absent along a not very 

 clearly defined broad medial band. These lines are closer together 

 on the basal half of the wings and over the whole surface form 

 more or less broken loops, rings and spots. Fore wing : a sub- 

 tornal black spot edged internally with yellow and an outer, very 

 slender, subterminal black line. Hind wing : with a similar sub- 

 tornal spot and subterminal slender black line, but in addition in 

 interspaces 1 a, 2 and 3 prominent linear zigzag black markings 

 within the subterminal line. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 dull black ; the antennae speckled with white ; the club yellowish 

 brown at apex ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen dull 

 grey. $ . Upperside : somewhat similar to that of the c? but 

 differs as follows : ground-colour dull fuscous black ; fore wing : 

 the blue markings similar, but the blue area below the cell much 

 restricted by the extension of the medial black spot which is 

 much larger and spreads to the base and on to the dorsal margin 

 of the wing near the base ; above the blue area there is a con- 

 spicuous irregular yellow patch and the curved series of blue spots 



* The $ P. Jiarterti is unknown. 



