108 LEPIDOPTEEA INBICA. 



outer margin decreasiiigly black. Hindiving with the disc and base green (of the 

 same metallic shade and turning to blue in some lights as in the forewing), the costa 

 and outer margin broadly black, bearing at the anal angle two orange lunules. 



The above description is taken from de Niceville, it corresponds with the type in 

 the Hewitson collection, and de Niceville adds there is little to distinguish androcUs 

 on the underside from its allies. 



The measurements correspond to those of m(?or('i, the figures are of specimens from 

 the Western Himalayas and the Khasia Hills. 



Habitat. — Kashmir to Kumaon, Khasia Hills, Assam, the Chin Hills and Naga 

 Hills. 



Distribution. — AVe have received many examples from the Khasia Hills, it 

 has been recorded by Elwes from the Naga Hills, by Watson from the Chin Hills, by 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, and it is in the B. M. from Eala, Sultanpore, 

 Kulu, Jibi, Kali Valley and Kangra. 



ALLIED CHINESE AND MALAYAN SPECIES. 



Heliophorus sapliir, Thecia saphir, Blanchard, Coinpt. Rend. Ixxxii. j). 811, note (1871). Ilei-da 



saphir, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 406, pi. 30, figs. 2, <J, .5, ? (1893). Habitat, Central 



China. 

 Heliophorus marica, Ilerda saphir, var. marica. Leech, I.e. p. 40", pi. 30, figs. 1, ^ , i, ? (1893). 



Habitat, Central China. 

 Seliophorus ila, Ilerda ila, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1896, p. 472. Habitat, Sinabong, 



Sumatra. 

 Heliophorus kiana, Sithon kiana, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1889, p. 317. Whitehead, Kina 



Balu, p. 118, pi. 20, figs. 7, 8 (1893). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 595. Habitat, 



Kina Balu. 



Sub-Family PORITIIN^. 



Eyes naked. Forewing with veins 5, 6, and 7 approximate at base, 11 anastomosed 

 with 12 ; three sub-costal nervules in Poritia and Simiskina, four in Zarona and two 

 in Cyaniriodes ; coloration above bright blue, often brilliant, no secondary sexual 

 characters in Zaronn ; sexual tufts of hairs on the wings in the males of Poritia and 

 Simiskina, sexes alike in the former, very dissimilar in the latter, both in colour and 

 shape, the hindwing of Simiskina being conspicuously angled ; Cyaniriodes is a some- 

 what aberrant form, veins 11 and 12 touch each other, l)ut do not anastomose, in all 

 other respects it belongs to this group, and has secondary sexual characters on the 

 hindwing. Though widely distributed through Assam, Burma and the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, all the species of this group seem to be very rare. 



