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upperside the most brilliant coloration of all the oriental Lycsenidse. 

 They are forest animals, and appear very early in the day as soon as 

 the sun has dried the leaves of the higher bushes or small ti'ees, on 

 which they settle for the sunny tropical forenoon, leaving their favourite 

 perch for a high flight from time to time, but always returning to the 

 same spot. They maybe found on the wing hefore seven o'clock in the 

 morning, but disappear at noon, after which hour they are never seen. 

 In Sumatra L. erycinoides, Feldei*, and L. pleurata, Hewitson, are found 

 in the plains, the other species are caught on the outer ranges of the 

 hills from Namoe Oekor to Soengei Batoe. No species is really common, 

 though P. sumatrse, Felder, and P. philota, Hewitson, are somewhat less 

 rare than the others. They fly all the year round, but are more common 

 from June to August. The females of all the species are very scarce 

 and are seldom seen in collections. A Battak collector in Dr. Martin's 

 service named Similir was particularly clever in getting Poritias, and 

 obtained nearly all the specimens in Dr. Martin's collection. He asked 

 for a pair of forceps to reverse without damage the wings of those 

 specimens which died "inside out " as it is often the annoying habit of 

 many small butterflies to do. 



311. SlMISKINA PHALENA, Hewitson. 



S. phalena, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. ix, p. 270, n. 8, 

 pi. O, fig. 23, female (1895). 



Originally described from a male from Singapore ; it occurs also 

 in the Patkoi Hills of Upper Assam ( = Massnga Jiartertii, Doherty), 

 the Katha District of Upper Burma, and in JST.-E. Sumatra, taken at 

 Toentoengan in the compound of Dr. Martin's house by Lieut. Ernst 

 Hartert. I have described and figured the female. Dr. Martin obtained 

 a second male specimen in May, 1894, from the Battak mountains. 



312. SlMISKINA PHARYGB, Hewitson. 



B. pharyge, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. vi, p. 361, n. 12, 

 pi. F, fig. 11, female (1891). 



Originally described from a male from Borneo, I figured and des- 

 cribed the female. It occurs also at Perak and Penang in the Malay 

 Peninsula ; at Renong in Western Siam ; and Herr M. Ude, Dr. H. 

 Doom's collector, obtained a pair at Bohorok in Eastern Sumatra, in 

 September, 1894. 



313. Simiskina payonica, de Niceville. 



8. pavonica, de Niceville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. x, p. 28, n. 12, pi. S, 

 fig. 18, male (1895). 



Near to S. pediada, Hewitson, from Mergui in Lower Burma and 

 from Singapore. Found in the Battak mountains of Sumatra very rarely. 



