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discoidal nervure) on a white gi-ound, the others on a ground 

 obscurely clouded with violet and whitish scales ; two of these 

 spots in the inner series and the median interspaces are much 

 larger than the others, the outer one quadrate ; a dark wavy 

 outer discal line extends in a white ground to the third median 

 nervule where it is interrupted, and from there to the anal angle 

 on a whitish ground ; marginal line orange-brown, bordered 

 inwardly by a silvery line between which and the wavy discal 

 line are, in the second median interspace, a blackish area, in the 

 first median interspace a grey area, and thence to the anal angle 

 a blackish line, inwardly bordered with reddish ; cilia basally grey, 

 outwardly dark. 



" Prom P. phalena, Hewitson, from Singapore, of which it 

 seems to be the northern representative, it differs in the narrow 

 streak below the cell in the fore wing with the bifid spot beyond 

 it and in the long mark in the hind wing. The hind wing below 

 is quite different, much less white, the discal spots larger and of 

 the general ground-colour, the submarginal spots absent and the 

 apical rufous-brown space greatly reduced." (Doherty.) 



Exp. " c? 1-3 inches." 



Hcib. " Upper Assam." 



Unknown to me. I believe a single specimen was procured by 

 Mr. Doherty and so far as I know it has not been taken since. 



782. Poritia phalia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345, J: 

 id. III. Di. Lep. 1878, p. 216, pi. 88, figs. 10, 11, rf. 



Poritia potina, Heivitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 347, $ ; id. 111. 

 Di. Lep. 1878, p. 215, pi. 88, figs. 6, 7, <j>; Doherty (Massaga), 

 J. A. S. B. 1889, p. 431, pi. 23, fig. 3 rf ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 

 1890, p. 44. 



Simiskina fulgens, Distant, Entomologist, xix, 1886, p. 12 ; id. Rliop. 

 Malay. 1884, p. 450, pi. 42, fig. 3 . 



c . Upperside: velvety black. Fore wing: with the following 

 rich antwerp-blue markings : an oblong spot in the middle of 

 interspace 1 a, a spot above its outer end in interspace 1, a series 

 of spots touching the median vein and filling the bases of inter- 

 spaces 1 to 3, two elongate spots beyond apex of cell and a 

 slightly curved postdiscal series of marks, the anterior two small 

 and macular, the posterior larger and more or less hastate with 

 their points inwards, the one in interspace 1 the largest. Hind 

 wing : costa broadly very pale brown, the secondary sex-mark of 

 an anteriorly directed tuft of hairs concolorous with this pale area ; 

 dorsal margin paler posteriorly ; interspace 1 filled with an elon- 

 gate broad streak subinterrupted postdiscally and not continued 

 quite to the terminal edge ; interspace 2 with a short outwardly 

 diffuse streak at base, an outwardly conical elongate spot in the 

 middle followed by a subterminal lunular spot ; interspace 3 with 

 similar middle and subterminal spots all these markings of a 

 blue similar to that on the fore wing. Cilia of both fore and hind 



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