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Distribution. — The type came from Java. Bingham records it from Burma and 

 the Shan States, but he has evidently described a wrong female. We have it also 

 from Mergui, and Druce has two males from Sikkim. We have been able to carefully 

 examine the type-specimen kindly lent us from the Tring Museum ; it being somewhat 

 faded, we have figured a fresh example identical with the type, and a female received 

 along with it, taken by the same collector. There is a female in the B M. coloured 

 and marked above like the male. 



PORITIA SUMATRJl. 



Plate 665, figs. 4, $ , 4a, ? , 4b, S- 



Pseudodipsas sumatrse, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 259, pi. 36, figs. 24, 25, (J, 26, 5 (1865). 

 Poriiia sumatrse, Hewitson, III. Diurn. Lep. Lycsenidw, p. 218(1878). Butler, Trans. Linn. Si c. 



Zool. 1877, p. 546. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 198, pi. 22, figs. 2, (J, 3, ? (1884). 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 42, footnote. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1896, p. 654. 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 462 (1907). • 



Poriiia sumatrse, var., Distant, I.e. p. 198, pi. 20, fig. 12, 9 ■ 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brilliant blue, rich metallic-green in certain 

 lights. Foretring with the upper portion deep black, limited by the median vein 

 and vein 2, a little of the black colour covering below that vein, runs down the outer 

 margin and along the hinder margin for a very short distance, the remainder of the 

 wing blue without markings. Hiiidwing with the costal portion down to the sub- 

 costal vein blackish, the rest of the wing blue, abdominal fold blackish, terminal line 

 black. Cilia black, tipped with white. Underside dark grey, markings pale reddish- 

 chocolate colour, edged with brown. Fvreiving with the cell crossed by five bars, the 

 basal one narrow, the others of the usual shape, the third bar with two spots below its 

 outer side, the fourth and fifth bars^ with a nearly straight bar below, running from 

 between them into the first interspace, two discal bands of somewhat lunular-shaped 

 bars from the costa to the sub-median vein, the inner one stopping short of it, the 

 space below the lower ends of these bars whitish and slightly glazed, outer marginal 

 space with a double series of lunular marks ; a narrow terminal band of pale reddish- 

 chocolate edged inwardly by a dark brown line of conjoined curves edged inwardl}- 

 with white, a small indistinct black spot near the anal angle capped with dull orange. 

 Hindioing with six bands of somewhat lunular conjoined bars, the marginal space 

 much as in the forewing, four sub-terminal black spots on a whitish ground from the 

 anal angle in the interspaces ; the whitish inner edging of the dark brown sub-terminal 

 line more conspicuous than it is in the forewing ; all the bands in both wings at equal 

 distances apart covering the entire surface of both wings. 



Female. Upperside pale dull lilac-purple. Forewing with a brown bar across the 

 end of the cell, a discal brown band from the costa to vein 2, a narrow, brown, 

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