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abdominal margin, its middle portion lunular ; a submarginal deeper 

 red line, inwardly defined by a pale violet line, , the line straight 

 in the forewing, lunular in the hindwing, where its four posterior 

 lunnlar portions are outwardly defined by a narrow black line. 

 Foreioing with the inner margin broadly pale fuscous, highl}' polished. 

 '*' Hindioing with a very fine pure white marginal line from the third 

 median nervule to the anal angle, outwardly -defined by an equally fine 

 deep black line ; the extreme margin castaneous. Cilia very narrow, 

 fuscous throughout. Body above black, beneath ochreous. 



Very near to Simiskina pediada, Hewitson, from Singapore 

 {Hewitson), and Mergui, Lower Burma (Doherty)j* from which it 

 appears to differ on the upperside of the forewing in not having the 

 spot on the inner margin continued to the base of the wing^ and in the 

 hindwing in having a small basal spot only in the submedian inter- 

 space, in S. pediada this spot is developed into a long streak, which is 

 joined to the discal spot in the same interspace. On the underside the 

 ground-colour is of a much brighter shade of red and is concolorous 

 throughout both wings, in S. pediada the outer two-thirds of the 

 hindwing is much paler than the rest, being " irrorated with whitish 

 scales." I possess no specimen of S. pediada. It is quite distinct 

 from S. pjharyge, Hewitson, described from Borneo, and captured at 

 Renong, Western Siam, by Mr. W. Doherty, and of which I possess 

 specimens from Penang, Perak, and N.-E. Sumatra, that species 

 being dull hair-brown on the underside in both sexes, instead of 

 rufous or castaneous, and has a marginal narrow blue line on the 

 underside of the hindwing which is wholly wanting in the present 

 species. The hindwing of the two species differs entirely in shape also. 

 Described from several examples in tlie collections of Hofrafh 

 Dr. L. Martin and in my own, taken in July and August, 1894. 



13. SIMISKINA PROXIMA, n. sp., PI. S, Figs. 19, ^ ; 20, ? , 

 Habitat : N.-E. Sumatra. 

 Expanse: (^,1-45; 9 , l-SO inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings deep black, with 

 rich dark iridescent emerald-green markings, which are lighter in 



* Massaga pediada, Doh^xiy, Journ,, A.S.B., vol. Iviii, pt. 2, p. 430, n. 62, pi. xxiii, 

 fig6 15, mah (1889), from Mergui. 



