462 LYCjENIDJE. 



very similar to those in some varieties of P. hewitsoni, but the 

 transverse golden-brown lines are replaced by distinctly broader 

 ferruginous bands which are also more regular and each edged 

 inwardly and outwardly with dark brown ; the spot above the 

 tornal angle on the fore wing fuscous brown not black, large and 

 diffused, the subtornal spot on the hind wing more broadly edged 

 on the innerside with ochraceous. Antennae black, the shafts ringed 

 with white, the apex of the club ochraceous ; the head and abdomen 

 clothed with brownish hairs and scales, the thorax with greenish 

 blue pubescence ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and abdomen dull 

 white, the last with a line of black on each side. $ . Upperside 

 brown. Fore wing : the blue markings as in the c? but of a pale 

 cerulean-blue, the blue in interspaces 2 and 3 succeeded by a discal 

 patch of ochraceous brown as in some specimens of hewitsoni 5 . 

 Hind wing : the large posterior blue area in the d reduced to two 

 discal quadrate spots in interspaces 3 and 4 ; subterminal and 

 terminal markings as in P. hewitsoni Underside : ground-colour 

 very pale ochraceous or drab ; markings as in the d but the bands 

 broader and paler in colour. Antennae as in the c? , head, thorax 

 and abdomen much paler brown ; beneath : the palpi and thorax 

 white, the abdomen concolorous with the ground-colour of the 

 wings. 



Exp. <5 $ 36-40 mm. (l'45-l -54"). 



Hab. Within our limits, Upper Burma : Maymyo, the Southern 

 Shan States. Described originally from Java. 



This appears to be an exceedingly rare form in Burma. I have 

 personally seen only three males and two females. It seems to 

 me probable that it is only a variety of P. hewitsoni, Moore, which 

 is found both in Sikhira and Burma. If the two are identical 

 Moore's name must be sunk as a synonym of erycinoides. The 

 chief difference between erycinoides and hewitsoni lies in the shade 

 of the blue colour on the upperside of the wings in the males, 

 which is very striking when the two insects are placed side by 

 side. 



778. Poritia sumatrae, Felder (Pseudodipsas), Nanara Reise, Lep. ii, 

 1865, p. 259, pi. 36, figs. 24, 25, 26, ^ $ ; Distant, Rhop. Malay. 

 1884, p. 198, pi. 22, ngs. 2, 3, tf $ ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, 

 p. 42, footnote. 



cJ . Upperside : velvety black. Fore wing : interspaces 1 a and 1 

 from base outwards brilliant blue, changing in certain lights to rich 

 metallic green, this colour in both interspaces stops short before 

 the termen leaving a slender black margin, in interspace 1 it is 

 narrowed outwardly, its upper margin from base of vein 3 sloped 

 straightly outwards as if ruled. Hind wing : the costal margin 

 broadly, the dorsal margin more narrowly dull brown ; the poste- 

 rior area from vein 1 to vein 7 and from base to termen brilliant 

 blue, with a changeful sheen as in the fore wing ; near the base 

 anteriorly this colour circles round a yellowish oval patch which 



