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of a slightly purplish tint and more restricted towards the base of 

 the wing so that a much broader outer margin of the ground- 

 colour is left, this however, is transversely traversed by a curved 

 series of five or six blue spots. Hind wing : blue markings much 

 as in the cT , but of the same pale shade as on the fore wing ; post- 

 discally this colour is interrupted in interspaces 1, 2 and 3 by 

 prominent, conical, inwardly-pointed spots of the ground-colour, 

 beyond which is a series of three subterminal blue lunules enclosing 

 three large conical spots between them, and a terminal blue line ; 

 the brownish-black ground-colour anterior and posterior to the 

 blue area is carried uninterruptedly to the extreme margin of 

 the wing. Underside : as in the <3 , but the transverse bands 

 broader and paler. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen similar 

 to those of the J but brown, not black on the upperside. 



Exp. rf $ 36-40 mm. (1-44-1 -54"). 



Hob. Described originally from Singapore ; extends northwards 

 through Tenasserim to Lower Burma. 



The description above is taken from Tenasserim specimens ; 

 further south the ground-colour on the underside is darker, the 

 transverse bands more regular. 



780. Poritia phraatica, Heivitson, III. Di. Lep. 1878, p. 214, pi. 88, 

 fig. 2 $; Distant, Rhop. Malay. 1884, p. 199, pi. 21, fig. 21 rf, 

 pi. 24, fig. 8 $ ; Ehves $ de N., J. A. S. B. 1886, p. 430; Moore, 

 Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1886, p. 38 ; de N. Butt. 2nd. iii, 

 1890, p. 41. 



c? . " Allied to the g of P. Sumatra, Felder, but larger, and 

 with the black area of the fore wing on the upperside smaller, its 

 inner margin somewhat concavely occupying the end of the cell, 

 after which it is more or less convexly continued to the first 

 median nervules and is then marginally continued to the angle, 

 where there is a short black streak along the submediau nervure. 

 Underside : both wings with the markings closely resembling those 

 of P. sumatrce, but much paler in hue." (Distant.) 



$ Upperside: brown. Fore wing : a medial longitudinal broad 

 streak that does not reach either the base or terinen of the wing 

 and is outwardly widened, bright rich yellow ; cilia brown. Hind 

 wing : a narrow transverse, in some specimens broken streak 

 crosses the middle of the wing from vein 1 to vein 6 ; beyond 

 which is an ill-defined, subterminal, black band more or less obso- 

 lescent anteriorly, with superposed yellow spots in interspaces 

 1 to 4, sometimes restricted to interspaces 2 and 3, and a slender 

 white edging ; cilia brown alternated with white. Underside : 

 silvery white ; markings very similar to those in P. hewitsoni $ , 

 but pale brown, not ferruginous, more irregular and more slender. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown ; the shafts of the 

 antennae speckled with white ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen white. 



Exp. " rf 1-10-1-4 inches," $ 39 mm. (1-50"). 



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