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blackj the female of S. proanma is totally different, being smoky- 

 black above; but the females of both /S. pharyge and S. proxima are 

 alike in the colour of the upperside. 



Described from a single male obtained at Bohorok in September by 

 Dr. H. Dohrn's collector, Herr M. Ude, and from a female without 

 precise locality, both specimens in the collection of Hofrath Dr. L. 

 Martin. 



14. SIMISKINA PROCOTES, n. sp., PL S, Fig. 21, $. 



Habitat : N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : 9 , 1'4 inches. 



Description : Febiale. Upperside, both loings fulvous, the base 

 dusted with black scales ; a broad black marginal band, its inner 

 edge scalloped. Foreioing has the black border broader at the apex 

 of the wing than elsewhere ; the disco-cellular nervules defined by a 

 narrow fuscous line. Bindioing with a narrow marginal deep ochreous 

 line. Underside, hoth loings pale ochreous, with darker ochreous 

 markings ; the discoidal cells defined by a narrow lino ; a somewhat 

 broken inner-discal line, slightly outwardly curved in the forewing, 

 commencing near the costa, ending at the submedian nervure, in the 

 hindwing greatly curved, commencing on the costa, ending on the 

 abdominal margin ; a broader and paler outer-discal . band, its inner 

 edge somewhat diffused, its outer edge sharply defined ; closely 

 followed by a very narrow line, straight in the forewing, lunulated in 

 the hindwing. Hindwing has a marginal very narrow whitish line 

 outwardly defined by an equally fine black line from the tooth-like 

 projection of the wing-membrane at the termination of the third 

 median nervule to the anal angle ; the outer margin finely dark 

 ochreous. 



Nearest to the same sex of Simiskina potina, Hewitson, described 

 from Singapore (Beivitson)^ Penang and Malacca {Distant) * Tavoy 

 and Thaiping, 1,000 feet, Perak {Doherti/)^ and in my own collection 

 from Perak, from which it differs in the apex of the forewing 

 not being produced as it is in that species, the black border to the 



* Sim'iiJciiia fulgens, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 450, n. 1, pi. xlii, fig. S, female (1886). 



