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tlie cell, broader than in phalena, thickened at the end, divided by the veins into three 

 pieces, the second piece the longest outwardly, two rather large, somewhat elongated 

 spots below the costa, a fifth from the apex, an outwardly, well curved series of six 

 sub-marginal spots, the lowest three lunular, the lowest the largest, a spot immediately 

 above the middle of the sub-median vein, with a short streak a little inwards, just below 

 it on the hinder margin. Hindwing with two elongated spots in the middle of the 

 disc, a broad streak from the base, along the inner edge of the abdominal fold, down to 

 the lowest of the three sub-marginal spots, which it does not quite touch ; these three 

 spots are rather large and more or less lunular, the one nearest the anal angle the 

 largest ; costal space of the wing broadly pale whitish-brown. Cilia black, tipped with 

 whitish. Underside chocolate-brown. Forewing with the hinder marginal space pale, 

 the basal two-thirds of the wing dark chocolate-brown, with a slaty tinge in parts, 

 limited by a broad straight discal fascia of a still darker shade ; a brown, thin lunular 

 line at the end of the cell, followed by a short medial transverse line composed of 

 three thin lunules, the upper one a little more inside than the other two, v,rhicli are in 

 a line, a narrow, indistinct orange-red marginal band, and a pale space below the 

 apex. Ilindiciiig with the basal fourth dark chocolate-brown, the rest of the wing 

 uniformly much paler, a medial, outwardly curved, zigzag, irregular orange-red 

 line, a discal somewhat similar series, and an orange-red, narrow marginal band, 

 inwardly edged by a fine white line. Antennae black, ringed with white, with some 

 orange-ochreous at the tips of the clubs ; palpi, head and body black above, whitish 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside dull purple-brown, the discs of both wings paler than tlie rest 

 of the wings, leaving broad diffuse outer marginal bands, no markings. Underside 

 pale chocolate-brown, fairly uniform in shade of colour, some faint blue-grey gloss on 

 forewing, slightly paler than the rest of the wing at the apex, the transverse lines and 

 markings exactly as in the male, but on the hindwing there are traces of a sub-terminal 

 series of brown spots. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, $ l^^o- inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type, a male, in the B. M., came from Borneo ; the female, 

 which is now described for the first time, is in coll. Druce from Labuan, there is a 

 male from Tavoy Valley, Burma, taken by Bingham, in the B. M. (which we figure), 

 identical with Hewitson's type. 



Note. — Bino-ham made potina, Hewitson, a.ndfidgens, Distant, synonyms to this 

 species, never having seen a female of phalia. The female of potina is an entirely 

 differently coloured and marked insect, and the male as described and figured 

 by Doherty, though somewhat similar to the male of ^ihalia, has distinctive 

 differences. 



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