118 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



cell, oblique, consisting of three quadrate spots, a sub-marginal row of six spots, tbe 

 last laro-er, sub-cordate. Ilindwing -with a longitudinal mark in the interno-median 

 space from the base, united terminally with the inner of a row of three triangular 

 spots crossing the disc ; three sub-marginal spots in the same spaces as the discal 

 ones, the middle small, lunular, the outer two semicircular, enclosing black spots, 

 the sub-anal one largest. Below dull rufous-brown, with a pale violet gloss. Forewing 

 with a broken macular line of minute whitish spots across the disc, an outer discal 

 line of small and very obscure pale lunules, beyond which lies a pale band, the margin 

 Ijriohter rufous. Hindwing, base and costa dull rufous-brown, most of the rest irrorated 

 with whitish scales, an obscure darker transverse line with two sagittate marks on the 

 median spaces, a sub-marginal dark zigzag line bordered inwardly by a pale line, a 

 maro-inal bright reddish line bordered inwardly liy slender black and white lines 

 which do not extend to the apex. (Doherty.) 



Female. Upperside dark plum-brown, almost black, without markings except 

 fur a very fine white sub-terminal line on the hindwing from near the anal angle to 

 vein 4. Underside rufous-brown, paler and more rufous than in the male. Forewing 

 with darker brown, transverse-discal and post-discal slender, sinuate whitish bands, 

 the former single, the latter double, the outer line very faint, the space between them 

 darker than the ground cotour, outer margin brighter. Hindwing with the medial 

 and lower spaces pale, the discal band broken and lunular, a post-discal, sinuous 

 whitish line, edged outwardly by a fine dark line, a sub-terminal silvery white line. 

 Antennte black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown above, whitish- 

 ochreous beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly% to lyV inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim, Mergui, Singapore. 



We have not seen a male of this species ; it is not in the B. M. Our figures are 

 copies of Doherty's figure. The type female from Singapore is unique in the B. M. 



SIMISKINA PHALENA. 



Plate 667, figs. 1, <^ , la, ?, lb, $,\c, ?. 



Poritia phalena, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. oii ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 216, pi. 89, 

 figs. 14, 15, ^ (1878). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 200, pi. 22, fig. 8, ^ (1884). Hartert, 

 Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1890, p. 204. de Kiceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 44, footnote (1890). 

 H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 568. 



Simisl-ma phalena, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 270, pi. 0, fig. 13, ?. 

 Frulistorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 303. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 654. 



Massa<ja harierti, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 128, pi. 10, fig. 1, (J. 



Poritia harterti, de Nicoville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 43 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt, 

 ii. p. 466 (1907). 



