1889.] W. Doherty— JVo;es on Assam Butierjlies. 129 



the whole breadth of the space ; beyond this two spots of moderate size 

 in the median spaces discally. JBelow rufous-brown with a slight bluish 

 gloss. Forewing with a broad white band beyond the cell, from the costa 

 (where it is narrowest) almost to the hind margin ; beyond it a broad 

 space of darker, richer brown, then a row of seven delicate whitish 

 transverse submarginal streaks, of which the upper three are most 

 distinct, crescent-shaped, the others obscure and irregular. Beyond 

 these a paler space, with three whitish streaks, parallel with and close 

 to the upper three of the inner series. Margin chestnut brown cilia 

 cliiefly light. Hindwmg, basal part unmarked, a broad white 'band 

 crossing the wing from the costa, occupying the outer third of the cell 

 its inner margin well defined, and but slightly irregular. The disc is 

 covered with large rufous-brown markings in two very irregular series 

 the first four (those above the radial) on a white ground, the others on 

 a ground obscurely clouded with violet and whitish scales. Two of 

 these spots in the inner series and the median spaces, are much larger 

 than the others, the outer one quadrate. A dark wavy outer discal line 

 extends on a white ground to the upper median, where it is interrupted, 

 and from there to the anal angle on a whitish ground. Marginal line 

 orange-brown, bordered inwardly by a silvery line, between which and 

 the wavy discal line are, in the upper median space a blackish area, in the 

 lower median space a gray area, and thence to the anal angle a blackish 

 lino inwardly bordered with reddish. Cilia basally grey, outwardly 



From Poritia phalena, Hewitson, (Singapore), of which it seems to 

 be the northern representative, it differs in the narrow streak below the 

 cell in the forowing, with the bifid spot beyond it, and in the long mark 

 in the hind margin. The hindwing below is quite different, much less 

 white, the discal spots larger and of the general ground-colour, the 

 submarginal spots absent and the apical rufous-brown space greatly 

 reduced. 



In the right forewing the first subcostal branch is wholly absent 

 This interesting aberration may be of frequent occurrence in this ar 

 and may have been the cause that Moore, Felder, and Distant passed 

 over this vein in their descriptions of the genus, 



The egg probably agrees with that of the other species of the 

 subfamily. It is a truncate pyramid, the base somewhat convex, neai-lv 

 twice as long as wide ; a horizontal apex, two vertical and two slopin 

 sides, the former trapezoidal, reticulate near their njjpor edges the 

 latter and the apex nearly square, delicately reticulate. In' th^ 

 ,5varian tubes of the female, these eggs are found in pairs, attached b^- 

 their bases. Along with those of Lifhyra brassoHs, they Ire the most 

 remarkable eggs in the family. 



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