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NOTES ON INDIAN BUTTERFLIES, 
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the Karen Hills, the Dawnas and Mergui; on several occasions 
males and females were taken in coitu. The male agrees fairly well 
with Felder’s figures of erycinoides and the female with Hewitson’s 
figure of phraatica, but both sexes were extremely variable. In De 
Niceville’s collection there is a series of this species from Burma, the 
Malay Peninsular, Sumatra and Java. Javan specimens differ from 
the remainder in the much greater extent of the blue areas and 
resemble exactly Swinhoe’s figure of male erycinoides in Lep. Ind. 
Felder’s figure curiously enough resembles the continental form more 
than the Javan. Fruhstorfer (B. E. Z. 1911) confines erycinoides 
to Java and puts phraatica as the continental race : this is very likely 
the correct course. 
In the Karen Hills in November I obtained a species of Poritia, 
which is not referable to any known species and which I propose to 
call karennia. The male is not unlike hewitsoni, but the yellow female 
is very different, while the underside in both sexes is strikingly 
different to that of any other member of the genus. I personally only 
caught 2 males and a single female, but there are other males in Mr. 
W. Archbald’s collection caught both in the spring and the autumn 
and there are 2 males in DeNiceville’s collection over the label 
pleurata, which is the dumping ground for all hewitsoni like species 
from Burma. Elwes in P. Z. S. 1892 mentions that Doherty 
obtained in the Karen Hills 2 yellow females, which he suggests may 
be dimorphic females of pleurata (recte geta), but I think they were 
probably females of phraatica. 
I will now turn to the genus Simiskina, which differs slightly 
from Poritia in the secondary sexual characters of the male and very 
markedly on the underside, which does not have the crowded 
catenulated bands common to every Poritia. 
phalena, Hew. (=harterti, Doh.) presents no difficulty. I caught one 
pair in the Tavoy district and DeNiceville has a few specimens 
from Katha. Fruhstorfer puts harterti as the Assam race in spite 
of Hartert’s own assertion that his unique specimens from the Patkoi 
Hills differed in no way from specimens he caught in Sumatra. 
pediada, Hew., presents no difficulty. I caught several males and 
females in the Tavoy district. 
phalia, Hew., male, Borneo ; potina, Hew., female, Singapore: fulgens 
District Malay Peninsular were, I think rightly united by Bing- 
ham under the name phalia, but he figured a variety of the female 
which led Fruhstorfer (B. E. Z. 1911) to call the Burmese race of 
phalia (= potina and fulgens) binghami. Swinhoe in Lop. Ind. treats 
phalia and potina (=fulgens) as distinct species; having never seen 
a male potina, he copies Doherty’s figure (J. A. S. B. 1889), while 
for phala he figures a male from Burma, which differs very slightly 
from his figures of male potina, and he allots to it a purple female 
from Labuan. Now I obtained several males and females of what 
I call phalia in the Dawnas, Tavoy and Mergui. Except for one 
Dawna specimen the males are pretty constant and resemble 
Hewitson’s and Doherty’s figures. Females were very variable and 
every gradation was obtained from Bingham’s figure with no black 
shading on the upperside of the forewing along the dorsum, to 
Hewitson’s figure with an entirely black inner margin. Tho aberrant 
Dawna male is not unlike Swinhoe’s figure of phalia, but the blue 
markings are more extended, the discal and sub-marginal spots 
being completely joined in space | forewing and in 1 to 4 hindwing, 
while the streak inl-a forewing extends to the base; the blue 
