122 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



8IMISKINA POTINA, 

 Plate 667, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, (J , 3c, 9 . 



Poritia potina, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 347, ? ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 215, pi. 88 

 figs. 6, 7, $ . Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 201, pi. 22, fig. 7, ? (1884). de Niceville, Bntt. of 

 India, iii. p. 44 (1890). 



Shniskina potina, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 275, pi. 95, female, nee male (1888). 



Massaga potina, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 431, pi. 23, fig. 3, $ . 



Simislcina fulgens, Distant, Entom. xix. p. 12 (1886) ; id. Rhop. Malayana, p. 450, pi. 42, fig. 3, 9 

 (1886). 



Poritia phalia, Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 467 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Above velvety black, witli the following rich blue markings 

 varying according to the light : — Forewing, one below the cell, clavate, extending 

 widely into the median spaces, one below the internal vein, with a spot above the end 

 of it, a series of three spots a little beyond the end of the cell, the upper obscure, the 

 lower quadrate ; a submarginal series of six spots, the lower one large and cordate. 

 Hindwijig with a longitudinal mark in the interno-median space, from the base two- 

 thirds to the outer margin, two discal spots in the next two spaces, three marginal 

 crescents in these three spaces, the sub-anal one large, with a streak outside of it beyond 

 the median vein. Below rufous-brown, brighter than in pediata. Foreunng with an 

 obscure darker rufous streak across the end of the cell, a darker rufous line across the 

 disc as far as the lower median, bordered outwardly by a darker bluish-tinged space, an 

 outer discal, obscure, lunular line, bordered inwardly by a paler bluish one, and 

 outwardly by a broad pale space, which is conspicuous and somewhat ochreous near the 

 apex. Hind margin and interno-median space chiefly dull ochreous, shining ; a bright 

 reddish marginal line. Cilia blackish. Hindwing, base and costa dark rufous-brown, 

 the rest paler rufous, a brighter rufous streak closing the cell, a similar discal series of 

 luuules irregularly placed, an obscure dark outer discal lunular line obsolete sub- 

 apically, bordered both inwardly and outwardly by a paler bluish space, and then by 

 a brighter rufous one ; a bright rufous marginal line bordered usually by slender black 

 and white ones. Cilia dark. (Doherty.) 



Female. Upperside orange. Forewing with the outer and hinder margins broadly 

 dark brown, the former broadest at the apex, a thin, brown, lunular mark at the end 

 of the cell. Ilindwing somewhat suftused with brown, with three large brown sub- 

 marginal spots. Underside pale dull orange-yellow. Forewing with a thin linear 

 mark at the end of the cell and two or three indistinct transverse bands, the first 

 medial, the other two discal and somewhat close together. Ilindwing with similar 

 indistinct bands, sometimes broken into spots and outwardly well curved ; the colour 

 and markings vary much in different examples, the underside having the transverse 

 markings sometimes very indistinct. 



