34 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII ° 
36. A note on the sub-family Poritiine. 
I have recently returned from a 5 months collecting tour in Burma and was 
fortunate enough to obtain some 200 specimens appertaining to 10 different 
species of the genera Poritia, Simiskina and Zarona. The literature dealing 
with this sub family is most confusing and I hope that this note will clear up 
most of the doubtful points and that the keys will enable collectors to identify 
their captures more easily than heretofore. 
I will take in turn the species of Poritia that have been described from India 
or the Malay Peninsula. 
(a) sumatre, Fd, is a very distinct species about which there is no 
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confusion. I personally did not meet with it, but Bingham recorded 
it from the extreme South of-Tenasserim. Distant’s figure in Rhop. 
Mal. of suwmatre 2 var is undoubtedly referable to geta. 
hewitsoni, M., is a well known species. Doherty (J. A. S. B. 1889) 
described some specimens he caught at Myitta, Tavoy, as hewitsoni 
var. tavoyana, but, as he seems to have mixed up this species with 
geta, erycinoides, pleurata and possibly others, it is difficult to say 
what tavoyana is referable to. There is however no doubt that 
Burmese specimens of hewitsoni differ from Indian ones in the reduc- 
tion of the blue spotting of the apical area of the forewing and 
tavoyana, might stand as the Burmese race of hewitsoni. I only 
met with this species rarely on the East side of the Dawna range. 
It is probably commoner in Upper Burma. 
pleurata, Hew, Singapore. The description mentions 2 blue spots 
on the black apex of the male, which are missing in the plate. De 
Niceville, Elwes and Bingham have all identified geta as this species, 
but Swinhoe very correctly pointed out the, error in Lep. Ind. At 
the foot of the Dawnas on the East side I caught 14 males and 3 
females of a species I am naming dawna; it is nearer Hewitson’s 
figures of pleurata than is geta, but there are certain pronounced 
differences. It is possible that dawna may turn out to be the 
Burmese race of the Singapore pleurata. 
geta, Faw., Toungoo. This species is well figured by Swinhoe in 
Lep. Ind. and the female by DeNiceville in his Vol. III, under 
the name pleurata. I found it common in the Karen Hills and the 
Dawnas, rather rare in Tavoy and Mergui. Specimens from Mergui 
(King Island) have the blue apical markings reduced and I propose 
to call them race regia. The spring form of geta in the Karen Hill 
is larger and greener than the autumn form. 
erycinoides, Fd., was described from a male from Java and pbhraa- 
tica, Hew., from a female from Singapore. I feel convinced that, 
as pointed out by DeNiceville in J. A. 8. B. 1895, these names 
represent the male and female of the same species. Distant in Rhop. 
Mal. described and figured a male to fit Hewitson’s female ; I think 
his male probably=pleurata. Bingham in the Fauna and Swinhoe 
in Lep. Ind. followed Distant but confessed they hid never seen a 
male phraatica. Bingham seemed to think that erycinoides was 
merely a blue variety of hewitsoni ; he assigned to it a hewitosni like 
female and said he had only seen 3 males and 2 females. Swinhoe 
in Lep. Ind. says that Bingham is entirely wrong about erycinoides ; 
he claims to have specimens from Mergui and says that Druce has it 
from Sikkim ; he figures a male, which he says resembles Felder’s 
type exactly and he gives it a female, which differs but slightly from 
Hewitson’s figure of phraatica. Now I found a (blue not greenish 
blue as in the rest of the genus) male, matched by a female with 
yellow discal areas, to be very common in Tavoy and not uncommon in 
