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separated from the outer marginal black band by three subapical, elongated, blue, con- 

 joined spots, outwardly oblique, and the outer marginal black band has in it three sub- 

 marginal blue spots and is very deeply excavated, as usual, above the hinder angle. 

 Hindwing with the costal space pale, a broad, blackish streak through and beyond the 

 cell, sub-terminal space, containing a series of black spots rather large and somewhat 

 triangular ; terminal line black, edged inwardly by a fine white line, and between them 

 a series of black spots capped with pale blue. Underside as in the male, but there is a 

 small black spot near the hinder angle on the forewing, and four small black sub-terminal 

 spots on the hindwing commencing from the anal angle, where the spot is capped with 

 orange. 



Expanse of wings, $ lyo-, ? l-^-^ inches. 

 Habitat. — Burma, Shan States, Sikkim. 



Note. — de Niceville and Bingham were mistaken in their identification of this 

 very distinct species, they could never have seen Hewitson's type of pleurata ; it is no 

 doubt somewhat similar to it on the upperside, but the underside is quite different ; 

 de Niceville states that he is somewhat doubtful of his identification ; we have male 

 examples from the Karen Hills and from Kyan Keyat, marked by de Niceville as 

 pleurata, which are identical with Fawcett's type. In coll. Druce there is a male from 

 Sikkim which differs somewhat from the type in the upperside of the forewings, 

 the male has the costal black band complete and fairly even in width, with two 

 conjoined outwardly oblique blue spots in it at one-third from the base, and a female 

 from the Karen Hills in the B. M. which is much paler than our type, with only 

 indications of the cell stripe on the hindwings and the marginal bands on both wings 

 narrower, but the undersides are identical with Fawcett's type. 



PORITIA PHRAATICA. 



Plate 666, figs. 2, <? , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Poritia pliraatica, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 214, pi. 88, fig. 2, 9 (1878). Distant, Rhop. 

 Malayana, p. 199, pi. 21, fig. 21, <J, and pi. 24, fig. 8, ? (1884). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool. 1886, p. 38. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 429. de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 iii. p. 41 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 527. Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1895, 

 p. 303. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 465 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Allied to the male of P. sumatrse, Felder, but larger and with the 

 black area of the forewing on the upperside smaller, its inner margin somewhat con- 

 cavely occupying the end of the cell, after which it is more or less convexly continued 

 to the first medial nervule, and is then marginali) continued to the angle, where there 

 is a short black streak along the sub-median nervure. Underside, both wings with the 

 markings closely resembling tho.se of P. sumatrse, but much paler in line. (Distant.) 



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