302 ntmphalidjE. 



certain lights pale bluish. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 



Exp. S 2 88-96 mm. (3-45-3-S"). 



Hob. Assam, the Khasi Hills ; Cachar. 



Genus PANTOPORIA. 



Pantoporia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 44 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 56 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 193. 

 Athyina, pt., de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 171. 

 Tatisia, Condochates, Kironga, Moore, Lep. Lid. iii, 1898, pp. 179, 



187, 209. 



Type, P. nefte, Cramer, from Java. 



Range. Indo-Malayan Region. 



6 2 - Fore wing short, broad, triangular ; costa well arched ; 

 apex blunt ; term en nearly straight ; tornus bluntly angulated ; 

 dorsum straight ; cell slenderly closed ; upper discocellular minute, 

 middle deeply rounded and concave, lower convex, slightly sinuous ; 

 veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell, 9 from about middle of 7, 

 10 and 11 free. Hind wing : costa and termen rounded, forming 

 together half an ellipse of which the dorsum is the chord, the last 

 nearly straight ; cell open, vein 7 equidistant from 6 and 8. 

 Antennae over half length of fore wing ; club long, narrow and 

 gradual ; palpi broad in front, clad with close scales, third joint 

 short conical ; eyes naked, in a few forms hairy. 



Key to the forms of Pantoporia. 

 A. Eyes not hairy. 



a. Hind wing : underside with five conspicuous 



black spots at base P. sulpitia, p. 303. 



b. Hind wing : underside without any such 



spots. 

 a'. ($. Fore wing upperside : discoidal streak 

 white, distinct, divided into four ; 

 apical portion never large, nor widely 

 separated from rest. 

 a 2 , d 2 ' Hind wing : underside without 

 any distinct series of black spots 

 between postdiscal and subterminal 

 markings. 2 black with orange- 

 yellow markings *. 

 a 3 . <5 . Fore wing upperside : lower 



portion of discal band not extend- [p. 305. 



ing into interspace 3 P. nefte, race nivifera, 



b 3 . J. Fore wing upperside : lower 

 portion of discal band extending 

 into interspace 3. 

 a 4 -. Hind wing upperside : postdiscal 



band white Race asita, p. 306. 



6 4 . Hind wing upperside : postdiscal 



band orange-yellow Pace inara, p. 306. 



* The females of P. nivifera and races cannot be separated. The males 

 vary, but the local races are distinguishable. 



