1895.] MR. H. H. DEUCE ON BOENEAIf LTdNID.?:. 567 



Sandakan. 



1 have not seen this species ; on the underside it is said to be 

 similar to P. pleurata. Hew., from Singapore. 



PoEiTiA PHALUKE, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 15 cJ .) 



c? . XJpperside : fore wing rich ultramarine-blue, with a large 

 oblong black patch about the middle of the costa, which is also 

 black, extending downwards to the median nervure ; apex and 

 outer margin black, irregularly serrated on its inner edge : hind 

 wing black, with a rather broad central ultramarine-blue streak 

 extending from the bivse nearly to the outer margin, sharply 

 bordered on its upper edge by the median nervure. Underside 

 much like that of P. phraatictt, Hew., but the ground-colour much 

 whiter and the markings somewhat narrower, and the bands more 

 broken and with their edges darker and more conspicuous. 



2 . Upperside brown, w ith dark margins much as in P. phraatica. 

 Underside as male, but paler. 



Expanse 1? inch. 



Kina iialu ( Waterstr.). Mus. Staudinger. 



The female appears to be identical with the type of Hewitson's 

 P. phraatica ; but the male is very different from the male of that 

 species which 1 have before me from Malacca (AVc/torn), and which 

 has been described by Mr. Distant. Ey the single streak on the 

 liind wing it seems to be allied to P. i>dlonia, Dist. & Pryer. 



POEITIA PHILOTA, 



Poritia philota. Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p, 340 ; 111. Diurn. 

 Lap., Lye. p. 217, pi. 89. fig. 20 (1878). 



Labuan {Wahnes) ; iS'.E. Borneo {Mas. G. cj- S.). 



I have received specimens which are identical with Hewitson's 

 type from Sumatra ; we also possess a male from Java. Messrs. 

 Godman and Salvin's collection also contains a pair from Borneo, 

 and a single male from the Phili[)pine Islands {Pnji'r) '. The female 

 is dull brown, slightly ochreous on the disc of the fore wing, and 

 towards the outer margin of the hind wing ; on the underside it 

 is much paler than the male. 



POKTTIA PL.VTEXI. 



Poritia plateni, Staud. Iris, ii. p. 104, pi. i. fig. 8 (1889). 

 Kina Balu (Waterstr.). 



^ Dr. Staudinger has sent another form which I believe is distinct and 

 describe as below ; — 



Poritia piiare, sp. n. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 14 c? •) 



c?. Upperside allied to P. philota, but larger, and with the blue streak in the 

 cell replaced by a small blue spot about its middle, close to the subcostal 

 nervure. Underside : ground-colour pale grey, wilh the bands and spots much 

 as in P. phUota and standing out prominently. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. Mindanao, Davao {Platen). Type Mus. Staud. 



This species should be at once distinguished from P. philota by the pale 

 ground of the underside, thus tl rowing up the markings prominently. 



