214 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



remarks count (as Edward Doubleday did) the termination of the subcostal nervure itself as a 

 fourth branch. 



Poritia of Moore, which includes, together with P. Hewitsoni, P. Sumatra, and P. Eryci- 

 noides of Felder (counting in the same way), has two branches only from the subcostal 

 nervure. Mr. Moore says that there are four; but I cannot understand how he comes to 

 this conclusion, unless he counts one of the discoidal nervures. 



In many of the Lycanidce the first branch from the subcostal nervure, which is absorbed by 

 the costal nervure in one example of the same species, is free in another. I cannot, however, 

 trace any such absorption in the many specimens which I have examined in this genus. 



Lyceenesthes has three subcostal branches ; Moore says five ; but in this case it is clear that 

 he has counted a discoidal nervure as one. This genus, which has the appearance of a Thecla 

 with the neuration of Lyceena, will contain Feldcr's P. Lycanoides {Bengalensis, Moore), P. 

 Sylvanus of Drury, and P. Larydas of Cramer, and several allied species which I now describe. 

 L. Emolus of Trimen (I cp\ote him for the name, feeling, as he does, a doubt as to its being 

 Godart's species) — which he likens to a Thecla, noting its rapid flight, — hisL. Otacilia, anAL. 

 Amarah of Guerin will form part of this genus. All the species which I have examined have, 

 when fresh, three tail -like tufts of hair (noticed by Moore) instead of the more substantial 

 tails of other genera ; and this will, I think, form an excellent characteristic of the genus, 

 since they do not exist (as far as I have noticed) in any of the true Lyc<en<e. 



1. Poritia Hewitsoni. Plate LXXXVIII. $ fig. 1. 



cJ Poritia Hewitsoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pi. 41. fig. 10, p. 775. 



2. Poritia Phraatica, Hewitson. Plate LXXXVIII. $ fig. 2. 

 Poritia Pleurata $ , Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soe. 187-4, p. 346. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a large central, oval, orange 

 spot. Posterior wing with a central band and two submarginal spots orange : a marginal 

 band of linear white spots. 



Underside white. Both wings crossed by several bands of pale brown spots. Anterior 

 wing with a black spot at the anal angle. Posterior wing with three submarginal black spots, 

 and an orange spot near the anal angle. 



Exp. l-j/j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Singapore (Wallace). 



It is not necessary to describe the underside more minutely, since it so little differs from 

 figure 3, P. Pleurata of the Plate, that I had described it as the female until Mr. Buxton 

 brought me the butterfly represented at figure 5. 



