1895.] MB. U. n. DHUCE ox BORNBAN LTC.TXID-i:. 569 



PORITIA PHERETIA. 



Poritia plteretia, Hew. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1874, p. 346 ; 111. Diurn. 

 Lep., Lye. p. 217, pi. Ixxxix. figs. 16, 17, 18 (1878). 



Sandakan. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes has sent me for examination a single female 

 specimen which is referable to this species. 



Poritia pualia. 



Poritia phaJia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345 ; 111. Diurn. 

 Lep., Lye. p. 216, pi. Ixxxviii. figs. 10, 11 (1878). 



Borneo {Low). 



This species is known to nie only by the type in the British 

 Museum. 



Poritia philitha, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1 cf .) 



(S . Upperside jet-black, with brilliant greenish-blue patches 

 and spots arranged much as in Simiskina pharyfje, Hew., but 

 generally larger ; the central streak in the fore wing, which in 

 S. pharyye is comparatively straight, is bent upwards at the b;vse 

 of the first median nervule and occupies the upper half of the 

 cell : costal margin of hind wing from base nearly to apex broadly 

 pale orange ; tuft of hairs near base black. Underside uniform 

 yellowish buff: fore wing with a thin dark streak at the end of 

 the cell, a central irregular line composed of minute white spots 

 inwardly bordered with black, halfway between this and the margin 

 a faint parallel line composed of dull reddish lunules, a reddish 

 anteciliary line ; cilia black : hind wing as described above, but 

 the first two spots of the central line which commences on the 

 costal margin large and distinct, a narrow black line inwardly 

 bordering the reddish anteciliary line, and within that towards the 

 anal angle a greyish sinuous line ; cilia black at the tips of the 

 nervules, greyish in between. Head, thorax, and abdomen black 

 above, yellowish beneath ; legs black, spotted with yellow above, 

 yellow below. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Kina Bahi (Waterstr.). Type Mus. Stand. 



Dr. Staudinger has sent me this distinct species and writes that 

 it is unique. So far as I can see it agrees with Poritia in neura- 

 tion, but is without the tuft of long hairs at the base of the sub- 

 median nervure of the hind wing, which is present in typical 

 Poritia, nor has it the tuft of hairs below the cell which is said to 

 be a distinctive character of SimisJcina. P. 2^hihira is distinguished 

 from S. pharyge on the upperside by the yellow costal margin of 

 the hind wing, and is very different below. 



SiMiSKiJTA, Distant. 



SiMISKINA PHAETGE. 



Poritia pTiaryge, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345 ; 111. Diurn. 

 Lep. Lye, p. 215, pi. Ixxxviii. figs. 8, 9, J . 



