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band ; followed by a, discal series of spots placed between tlie veins, 

 the anteriormost the smallest, rapidly increasing in size to the fourth 

 spot in the second median interspace, which is the largest, the spots 

 again decreasing in size to the abdominal margin ; an outer discal 

 series of irregular spots extending across the wing, followed imme- 

 diately by a narrow whitish and then a narrow black line ; three 

 diffused black spots on the margin in the submedian and median inter- 

 spaces ; very narrow white, black, and ferruginous anteciliary lines. 



Male nearest to the same sex of Simiskina potina, Hewitson,* from 

 Singapore (Heioitson), Penang, Malacca (Distant as Simishina 

 fulgens), Myitta, Tavoy District, Burma (Doherty), Hills north of 

 Papun, December ; Thaungyin Valley, February ; Daunat Eange, 

 January, all in Tenasserim, captured by Colonel G. T. Bingham ; 

 and Perak (coll. de Niceville), from which it differs on the upperside 

 of both wings in having all the markings rich emerald-green, instead 

 of "rich blue varying according to the light ;^' in having an 

 extra dot in the cell of the forewing ; and the underside of both 

 wings having the ground-colour reddish-brown glossed with viola- 

 ceous, instead of " rufous-brown " with no violet gloss. The female 

 is nearest to Simishina pliaryge., Hewitsonf (see ante^ page 29), 

 from the same sex of which it differs in the forewing; being 

 narrower, the hindwing more deeply scalloped, the tooth-like pro- 

 jection at the end of the third median nervule much longer, in 

 possessing a blue anteciliary line to that wing on the upperside, 

 but entirely lacking it on the underside ; the markings on the 

 underside differing greatly in detail. It is also near to the female of 

 S2Ws/<;ma jD/«aZe??a, Hewitson^l from Singapore [Wallace), and Upper 

 Burma {coll. de Niceville), from which it differs on the upperside 

 of the forewing in the absence of the discal white spot. The markings 

 of the underside of the two species are very similar, only that in 

 S. plicdena there is a discal pure white band, which in S. pi^oxima is of 

 the pale colour of the ground. It should be noted that whereas S. potina 

 has a female which is orange-coloured on the upperside marked with 



* Massaga potina, Doherty, Journ., A.S.B., vol. Iviii, pt. 2, p. 431, n. 63, pi. sxiii, fig, 3, 

 male (1889), from Tavoy, Burma. 



t Simishina p]iaryqe,d.e SicQYillQ, Journ., Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vo). vi, p 361, n l-^ 

 pi. F, fig. 11, female '(1B91), from Perak. " "' 



J Simishina phalena, de iSTice'ville, Journ., Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol, ix, p. 270, n. 8, pi, 

 fig. 13, /i?j?«(/e (1895), from Upper Burma. ' 



