1865.] | MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 775 
A. campeo, Doubleday (Cat. Lep. E. I. C. i. pl. 1 a. f. 6 ; Hewits. 
Abeipl.. 35f.°25; 26; s: 
A. cenTaurus, Fabr. (Hewits. ib. pl. 2. f. 10-13, 3; f. 11,9 i 
A. nakula, Felder, Lep. Mal. Wien. Ent. Monat. iv. p- 395. 
Camena cresta, Hewits. Ill. Lep. Lye. pt. 2. ple 20.4. 1, 2, 3. 
Darjeeling. 
Poritta, n. g., Moore. 
Pseudodipsas (part.), Felder. 
Eyes naked. Palpi long ; third joint slender, one-third the length 
of the second, finely pointed at the tip. Legs short, stout; femora 
slightly pilose beneath. Antenne slender at the base ; club mode- 
rate. Thorax stout; abdomen moderate, extending to two-thirds 
of the length of the hind wing. Wings short, very broad; costa of 
fore wing slightly concave in the middle, exterior margin straight, 
slightly oblique, posterior margin nearly as long as the costa, poste- 
rior angle acute: hind wing very convex near the base, concave in 
the middle ; apex, exterior margin, and anal angle rounded, scal- 
loped ; subcostal vein with first branch arising at one-third from its 
base and extending to the costa beyond one-third of its length, third 
remote, fourth arising from the second at one-fourth of the length 
of the first. 
PoriTIA HEWITSONI, n. sp. (Pl. XLI. f. 10.) 
Male. Upperside jet-black : fore wing with the lower part of the 
base from beneath to beyond the cell and extending into the black 
of the exterior margin brilliant deep blue, or in some lights emerald- 
green, in the middle of which is an elongated black spot; a row of 
very small similar brilliant blue spots obliquely before the apex and 
along the exterior margin: hind wing with the same brilliant blue 
extending from the base beneath the cell (in some specimens en- 
croaching within) to the exterior margin, within which is a row of 
more or less defined marginal and submarginal black spots ; exterior 
margin defined by a black line; abdominal and anterior margins 
greyish black ; a tuft of fine greyish hairs near the base. Thorax 
above greenish black ; abdomen black. Antennze black, ringed with 
white. Head and palpi above hoary. Palpi and thorax beneath 
and legs white ; tibiae and tarsi with black spots. Underside very 
pale ashy colour ; both wings covered with numerous transverse irre- 
gular-shaped black-bordered pale-brown markings, those at the base 
short, a series across the disk zigzag, others along the exterior margin 
with narrow inner white lines; posterior angle of both fore and hind 
wings with a black spot bordered above with orange-red. 
Female. Upperside brownish black ; fore wing with a pale orange- 
yellow streak in the middle, above and beneath which are purple- 
blue connected streaks ; hind wing with ill-defined purple-blue mar- 
ginal and discal spots, exterior margin defined by avery narrow yel- 
