P1NTIA.— AMBSIA. 23 



PINTIA, Walk. 



Pintia ferrea. (Plate LXXXIII. fig. 7.) 

 Eterusia ferrea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 431. n. 8 (1854). 



J 1 . 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 tegulse 

 banded with green ; antennae 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 LXXXIII. figs. 8, 9.) 



<$ . 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). 



