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PINTIA, Walk. 
Pintia ferrea. (Plate LX XXIII. fig. 7.) 
Eterusia ferrea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 431. n. 8 (1854). 
¢&. Primaries above rich chocolate-brown, with the median and internal veins, a streak 
on inner margin, and a spot at the base bright green; an abbreviated, oblique, subapical, 
yellowish band separated by the nervures into three unequal spots: secondaries smoky brown, 
with darker border, the veins broadly washed with green ; an arched subapical series of four 
whitish spots, of which the first is largest : thorax rich chocolate-brown, the collar and tegulz 
banded with green; antenne and tips of palpi deep blue; abdomen dark green. Primaries 
below chocolate-brown ; costa green, whitish at base; a white abbreviated subapical band and 
a broad, irregularly curved, longitudinal interno-median white streak : secondaries white, with 
the veins and outer border broadly dark brown; a submarginal series of dull blue spots: 
body below white, brown at the sides. Expanse of wings 2 inches 2 lines. 
Silhet, Hong-Kong, &c. 
AMESIA, Westw. 
Amesia stelligera. (Plate LX XXIII. figs. 8, 9.) 
3. Wings above rich chocolate-brown : primaries shot with golden bronze ; the apical two 
fifths of costa and the outer border bright ultramarine-blue; two series of white dots parallel 
to outer margin: secondaries shot with purple, particularly towards the abdominal border ; 
apex bright blue, three spots of the same colour enclosing white dots near the apical margin ; 
three or four indistinct subapical white dots : body dark brown, touched here and there with 
steel-blue; anal fringe black, tipped with white. Wings below rather darker than above ; 
primaries with the blue band extending further along the costal border, but on the external 
border not reaching the margin ; a subbasal costal blue patch ; two white dots placed obliquely 
within the cell, a third below the first median branch, the remainder as above: secondaries 
with the base of costa blue, with one white spot; a discal semicircle of five pale yellow spots ; 
apical half of costal margin bright blue; seven blue-bordered submarginal white spots ; 
pectus blackish, spotted with white; legs streaked with pale shining blue; venter dark green, 
with the anal segment and a marginal series of spots white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 
11 lines. 
@. Larger than the male: primaries above coloured as on the under surface of the 
male: secondaries purplish brown; two yellowish-white dots placed obliquely near the end of 
the cell, and two spots beyond and parallel to them near the apex; a submarginal series of 
seven blue-bordered white spots: body and under surface nearly as in the male, excepting 
that the two discoidal dots of secondaries appear as above. Expanse of wings 3 inches 
4 lines. 
Bhotan (Lidderdale). 
