568 ME. H. H. DEUCE ON BOENEAN LYCvENID.E. [June 18, 



Through the kindness of Dr. Staudiuger I have been able to 

 examine two specimens from Borneo, and the type of the species 

 which was obtained from the island of Palawan. I find that the 

 irregular dark blotches vary slightly in intensity and shape ; indeed, 

 in neither one of the specimens are they alike in the correspond- 

 ing wings. The species should be easily recognized, as it is quite 

 unlike any other in the genus. It is a true Poritia, as defined by 

 Mr. de Niceville. 



PoKiTiA PHAMA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 18 S .) 



S • Pore wing, upperside brilliant greenish blue, apex and outer 

 margin do\vn to lower median nervule broadly black, then nar- 

 rowly black ; a quadrate black spot at the end of the cell adjoining 

 the black costa and evenly bordered by the end of the cell, the 

 third median nervule, and towards the apex by a short band of 

 blue which is intersected by black nervules. Hind wing greenish 

 blue, costal third and anal fold greyish ; a marginal row of small 

 black spots between the nervules, most distinct towards the anal 

 angle. Underside much like P. pliormcdon, but with the markings 

 of a more reddish hue. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). 



I have a specimen before me belonging to Dr. Staudinger 

 labelled " Vulcan Grede, West Java," which I take to be this 

 species ; it agrees exactly with Bornean specimens on the upper- 

 side, but on the underside the bands are straighter and somewhat 

 more compressed together, thus leaving broader ground-spaces, and 

 are rather more reddish, but these are peculiarities which I have 

 noticed in P. hewitsoni, Moore. 



POEITIA PHALENA. 



Poritia phalena, Hew. Trans. But. Soc. 1874, p. 344 ; 111. Diurn. 

 Lep., Lye. p. 216, pi. Ixxxix. figs. 14, 15 (1878). 



5 . SimisJcina solyma, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. Ixiii. pt. ii. 

 no. 1, p. 29, pi. iv. fig. 10 (1894). 



Labuan ( Waterstr.). c? ? . 



The male received from Labuan agrees exactly with Hewntson's 

 type in the British Museum, and the female with Mr. de Nice- 

 ville's description and figure of S. solyma, excepting that the discal 

 spot is not quite so clearly M'hite in any light. So far as I can 

 tell the neuration agrees with that of Poritia, but the tuft of long 

 black hairs attached to the base of the submedian nervure in the 

 hind wing is wanting, and I notice that Mr. Doherty in describing 

 a near ally, viz. P. hartertii, from Upper Assam, does not mention 

 this patch. Why Mr. de Nioeville should place his insect (a female) 

 in the genus SimisTcina I do not know. 



The sexes are remarkable for the disparity in size, the male 

 before me measuring 1^ inch, the female 1 Jy inch. 



The species has not been recorded since Hewitson obtained the 

 type. 



