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colouring is pure blue with no hint at green as is the case with all 
normal males; at present I intend to treat it as a variety of 
phalia. What Swinhoe’s purple female from Labuan is I cannot 
say, but it does not concern us in India at present. 
There are two other members of the genus Simiskina that may turn up in 
Burma, viz.—pheretia, Hew., Singapore; male below rather as phalena, but 
above the hindwing is mostly pale blue ; female brown above with the termen 
or the hindwing broadly pure white; pharyge, Hew., Borneo, Malay Peninsular 
and Renong, Siam; not unlike pediada, but easily recognised by the presence 
of a bright blue submarginal line on the hindwing below. 
On two occasions a male and a female of Zarona jasoda were caught in coitu, 
which puts an end to the doubt that has always existed, as to whether jasoda 
and zanella were different species. A few specimens of both sexes were 
obtained in the Dawnas, Tavoy and Mergui. Fruhstorfer has sunk Zarona to 
Deramas and calls jasoda a race of the Malayan livens; the only difference 
between the two is the secondary sexual characters ; Distant asserted that 
they were present in livens and there are certainly none in jasoda. I have not 
seen livens, but I can quite believe that Fruhstorfer is right and jasoda may 
well be a race of livens, that has lost its secondary sexual characters. 
Cyaniroides libna was not met with. 
Key to Poritia. 
Nofe.—All males are very similar and are brilliant blve or green above with 
a broad black apex to the forewing, which, when the spotting is fully developed, 
bears sub-marginal blue spots in 2 and 3 joining, a diagonal series beyond the 
end of the cell leading te the costa. The presence or absence of a black spot of 
varying size about the middle of vein 1 upf. and of marginal spots uph. are 
variable individual and not specific characters. 
l-a. (6). g uph. blue colour extends above vein 4 into space 4, at least near 
the margin. 
l-b. (4-a). @ upf. cell entirely black. 
1. (2-a). @ upf. blue colour not above vein 2; green rather than blue; apical 
area f. unmarked. Uph. lower part cell and all 4 blue. 2 purple with a black 
apex bearing two rows of purple spots, the outer spots being separated by 
ochereous lines. Below the catenulated bands are even, continuous and parallel 
to one another, not discontinuous and irregular as in the rest of the genus. 
sumatre, Fd. Extreme South of Tenasserim. (Bingham). 
2-a, (1). @ Upf. blue colour extends into 2 and often into base of 3. 
2. (3) @ uph. cell and basal part of 4 blue ; blue rather than green ; apex 
unmarked except for marginal spots in 2 and 3. Q yellow, costa, termen and 
outer third of dorsum f. dark brown, width -1 inch; h. entirely yellow except 
that the costa is whiteish, the base has some dusky brown shading and there is 
a row of dark brown sub-marginal spots. Below white, catenulated bands as 
usual, but differs conspicuously from the rest of the genus in that on the 
upper part of the disc f. and near the apices f. and h. there are prominent large 
bright brown burnt sienna patches. 
karennia, nov. Karen Hills, 3,000 feet. 
3. (2). @ uph. lower part of cell and all 4 blue, with a dark streak at end 
cell; green rather than blue. Y upf. pale purple blue in la, 1 and centre of 2 with 
an orange patch in 3, sometimes extending into 2 ; cell black and apical spotting 
asin the & but better developed ; uph. black except for a rather small blue 
discal patch. Below smoky grey to pale cinnamon. 
A. upf. apical spotting well developed in both sexes. 
hewitsoni hewitsoni, M., Kumaon to Assam. 
B. Ditto much reduced and sub-marginal spots absent. 
