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Deramas livens, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 2-52; id. Rhop. Malayana, p. 4-51, pi. 42, 



fig. 15, (J (1886). Habitat, Singapore. 

 Deramas livescens, Friihstorfer, I.e. Habitat, Java. 



Porishina phaJeos, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 570, pi. 34, fig. 15, ^ . Habitat, 

 Philippines. 



Genus SIMISKINA. 



Simislcina, Distant, Entom. xix. p. 12 (1886); id. Rhop. Malayana, p. 450 (1886). 

 Massaga, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 429. 



Poritia, de Niceville (part), Butt, of India, iii. p. 37 (1890). Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, 

 Butt. ii. p. 457 (1907). 



Eyes naked. Forewing with four sub-costal nervules, vein 11 completely 

 anastomoses with 12 from near its origin, 11 emitted from the sub-costal nervure at 

 three-fifths, 10 from near its end, 9 from 7 from near its end, 8 absent, middle disco- 

 cellular rather stout and oblique, lower distinct and sinuous, apex of wing more 

 pointed in both sexes than in Poritia, and is usually slightly falcate, the upper part 

 of the outer margin being slightly excised, sexual tuft of the male less conspicuous. 

 Ilindwing, discoidal cell longer than in Poritia, upper discocellular nervule short, very 

 oblique, the lower much longer, vein 3 from before lower end of cell, a tuft of long 

 liairs on the upper side of the wing, the hindwing of the female is conspicuously 

 angled, the sexes are very unlike, the females having a peculiar shape much resembling 

 that of the genus Abisara of the family Nemeobiinse. Antennse and palpi as in Poritia. 



Doherty says that the egg of Simiskina potina differs from that of Poritia in 

 having the hexagonal reticulations very regular and delicate ; it has the same 

 extraordinary shape ; the habits of the female, he says, are also different ; it sits on a 

 leaf with half-open wings, and might easily be taken for a small Cirrhoc/iroa or some- 

 times for a Loxura, and in colour it is entirely different from the usual colours of 

 species of Poritia. 



Type, fulgens, Distant = potina, Hewitson. 



SIMISKINA PEDIADA. 

 Plate 666, figs. 3, $ , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ , 3c, ? . 



Poritia pediada, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 223 (1877); id. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 218, pi. 89, 

 figs. 21, 22, 9 (1878). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 200, pi. 22, fig. 16, ? (1884). 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 46 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt, ii p. 469 

 (1907). 



Massacja pediada, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 430, pi. 23, fig. 15, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Above, velvety black. Forewing with the following markings 

 bluish-green, varying according to the light, namely, one below the cell, one basal 

 below the internal vein, its terminal part crossing the vein, one a little beyond the 



