120 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



indebted to Lieutenant James M. Burn, R.E., for tlie gift of specimens of both sexes 

 taken in the Katha district of Ujjper Burma, at 800 feet elevation above the sea, in 

 March and November, (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, $ I-^q to 1^, $ lj\ to ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Burma, Upper Assam, Singapore, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type, a male in the B. M., came from Singapore ; Doherty's type 

 from Patkoi Hills, Upper Assam ; Hartert records it from the Baltac Hills, N.E. Sumatra, 

 and de Niceville from the Katha district. Upper Burma. It is in the B. M. also from Java. 



Note. — Doherty's type was taken by Hartert, he subsequently secured another 

 specimen in the Baltac Hills, which he says is undoubtedly identical ; where Doherty's 

 type now is, is not known ; de Niceville's type of the female is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, we have not been able to examine it ; we give a copy of de Niceville's figure. 

 Doherty gives the following description of the egg and pupa. 



Egg, a truncate pyramid nearly twice as long as wide, with two vertical and 

 two sloping sides, the former trapezoidal, reticulate near their upper edges ; the 

 latter and the apex nearly square, delicately reticulate. In the ovarian tubes of the 

 female, these eggs are found in pairs, attached by their bases. Along with Lipliyi'a 

 hrassolis, Westwood, they are the most remarkable eggs in the family. 



Pupa, somewhat resembles those of the Eryciiiidce and strikingly illustrates the 

 singularity of the group. It is suspended, not girt, but rigidly inclined towards the 

 surface of the leaf. It is less compact in form than that of other Lyccenidce, and is 

 studded with bristles. Of these a number on the side of the head are white, witli two 

 black ones on each side of the top of the head, and one black one on each side of the 

 thorax above the thoracic angle. The second, third, and fourth abdominal segments 

 have each a lower white and an upper black bristle approximate laterally ; while the 

 last segments have a number of white lateral and of black sub-dorsal ones. The orround 

 colour is ochreous, much marked with dark, especially on the upper surfece of the 

 abdomen, each segment having a black line near its hind margin, except the first, which 

 has two distinct black spots dorsally. The wing-covers are veined and bordered with 

 brown. (Doherty. ) 



Larva, unknown. 



SIMISKINA PHALIA. 



Plate 667, figs. 2, i , 2a, ?, 2b, ^, 2c, 9 . 



Poritia plialia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345 ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 216, p. 88, 

 figs. 10, 11, (J (1878). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 569. Bingham (part), Fauna of 

 Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 467 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-black, markings bright dark blue. ForeiciiKj 

 with a broad streak immediately below the median vein, from the base to the end of 



