112 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



PORITIA ERYCmOIDES. 



Plate 665, figs. 3, <? , 3a, J , 3b, ^ . 



Pseudodipaas erycinoides, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 259, pi. 30, figs. 23, 24, ^ (1865). FiUh- 

 storfer, Berl. Ent. .Zeit. 1896, p. 303. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 461 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blue, of a very clear and brilliant colour. Fore- 

 wing with. tHe costal line thickly black, a black spot in the cell near its base, a black 

 patch at its end, its upper portion nearly square and touching the costal line, its 

 lower portion extending outwards, and also running inwards along the median vein 

 to the middle of the cell, a black costal spot near the apex of the wing, two somewhat 

 diffuse black conjoined spots in the middle of the disc, a narrow marginal black band 

 narrowing somewhat hindwards, with black streaks running in on the veins, a short, 

 thin, black streak on the sub-median vein, from its middle to its base, disconnected in 

 its centre. Hindwing with its upper half black, the lower edge of the black portion 

 nearly straight across the wing, abdominal margin broadly black, the limited 1)1 ue 

 space with a small spot inside it and two more near the outer margin, terminal line 

 black, some sub-terminal black spots. Cilia of both wings black. Underside grey, 

 markings pale chocolate-brown, with darker edges. Foreicing with four bars across 

 the cell, the basal one narrow, the others with their middles constricted, a discal band 

 running just outside the cell, with its outer edge angled, followed by an irregular 

 band of somewhat lunular marks, mostly disconnected, the marginal portion of the 

 wing filled in by two rows of somewhat lunular marks, the margin tinted with pale 

 pink, edged inwardly by a brown line of conjoined curves, a black spot capped with 

 orange-pink near the hinder angle. Hindwing with eight transverse bands of mostly 

 disconnected, somewhat lunular marks covering the whole surface of the wing, except 

 a narrow space from the end of the cell to the costa, the fifth band being incomplete, 

 a small black anal spot, a larger black sub-terminal spot capped with orange in 

 interspace 1, and a smaller black spot in each of the two following interspaces, an 

 orange-pink terminal line edged inwardly by a dark brown line. Cilia of both wings 

 black, tipped with white. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with a pale pinkish-orange, rather broad 

 streak along the middle of the wing, broadening a little outwards, and extending 

 from near the base to near the outer margin. Hindwing with a similarly coloured, 

 waved, narrower streak from near the outer margin above its middle, across the wing 

 towards the middle of the abdominal margin ; a sub-terminal row of blackish spots, 

 an orange-pink terminal line, edged on both sides by a dark brown line. Cilia lirowu, 

 tipped with white. Underside as in the male, but paler. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly-„ to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Shan States, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



