PANTOPORIA. By H. Frtthstorfer. 
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Upper Burma, June till October, everywhere scarce, so far not found in Sikkim. — idita Moore succeeds idita. 
the preceding form in South Tenasserim, the Mergui Archipelago and Malay Peninsula. Differs from the Con¬ 
tinental and more northerly forms in having above the median band suffused with blue-green at the periphery, 
and on the hindwing the chain of black spots almost obliterated and only slightly indicated beneath by mere 
dots. — pusilla subsp. nov. from the island of Banka, is greatly inferior in size to Perak and Sumatra pusilla. 
specimens, with brillant white bands and much paler under surface. Type in the Munich Museum. —• anaka anaka. 
Fruhst., distinguished in £ by the narrowest median bands on forewing, which occasionally are obscured 
anally to such an extent that the white colour is nearly entirely replaced by blue-green. Beneath it resembles 
idita, dark coffee or chocolate-brown, especially pronounced in which are larger than those of any other 
Malayan asura form, with much broader subapical spots and median bands. North and South-East Borneo, 
Pontianak. -—• battakana Fruhst. (124 c) differs from latecincta in having the white median bands narrower and battatcana. 
more conspicuously bordered with blue-green, but somewhat broader than in typical idita from the Malay 
Peninsula, from which they also deviate by the red-brown instead of dark coffee-brown colouring of the under 
surface. The forewing has the subapical strigae longer than in latecincta. Deli, Sumatra. The figured light 
form does not seem to occur in the Padang Bovenland of West Sumatra, specimens from thence having the bands 
much narrower. —• latecincta Fruhst. has in contradistinction to the other Macromalayan forms of asura the latecincta. 
white submarginal spots of the hinclwings centred with black, recalling asura Moore of India proper. Moreover, 
the under surface deviates from that of all other forms by the light red-brown ground-colour. Western Java, 
Vulcano Gede, 4000 ft. of altitude. This beautiful species is rather scarce, and I have never observed it in 
the eastern part of the island. 
P. larymna and the two following species are the giants among the Pantoporidi. Markings illustrated 
in our figures of larymna (124 cl) and elisa (123 b). According to the locality, the white or yellowish transverse 
bands vary in extent, and the ground-colour of the under surface from grey to coffee-brown. $ always larger 
than db with clearer white and larger bands above, more rounded wings, and paler under surface. All the forms 
of larymna are scarce, especially on the outer limits of its range of distribution. Although endowed with strong 
flight, it never flies very far; is always met with singly on moist spots or on faeces in forest roads. — sia- siamensis. 
mensis Fruhst. is the smallest of the hitherto known forms, possibly on account of the type belonging to the 
dry-season form. Wings delicate, especially hinclwings narrower; white spotting reduced. Beneath resembling 
laryma in the brillant coffee-brown colouring, although easily distinguished from it by the reduced white bands. 
Siam, Hinlap, Muok-Lek, January and February, at about 3300 ft. Malay Peninsula to Upper Tenasserim, 
(February till August). —• siamensis I found on the wet rocks along the railway line from Bangkok to Korat 
in the Interior. When frightened, they fly away rapidly, but re-alight after a short time on the leaves with 
extended wings. —• agina Fruhst. Uc? smaller than $$ from Java, wings more delicately curved. Cellular agina. 
streak bluish-white, divided in 3 parts, much narrower than in the other forms, the spot above the cell not 
triangular, but quadrate, the bands on hindwing, especially the lower, second one, much narrower than in 
larymna and elisa. The under surface has on the forewing the cell more broadly filled with brown, on the hind- 
wing the brown median band narrower and more sharply defined than in the allied forms. Forewing of $ 
measures 44 mm. Palawan, very scarce. — elisa Fruhst. (123 b) is the form most frequently seen in Europe, elisa. 
White spots above hardly one half as large as in larymna from Java, $$ very large, all bands and spots margined 
with blue. Under surface of $$ slightly paler grey-brown than in Continental specimens. North and South 
Borneo, Pontianak. —- larymna Dbd. from which the species was named, comes from Java, and displays there- larymna. 
fore, as all Nepticli and Pantoporidi found in that island, the most conspicuous white markings, especially in 
the subapical and intramedian areas on the forewing. The proximal band of <3$ is as large as that of the $$ 
of the allied races. Very scarce, only found by me in the woods around Wijnkoops Bay and near Sukabumi, 
but never in the eastern part of the Island, at an altitude of about 2000 ft. —• selessana Fruhst. resembles in selessana. 
elisa, but wings more rounded; under surface more richly bordered with white, bands much narrower than 
in larymna, ground-colour darker, more uniformly brown, more profusely adorned with violet. Bands broader 
than in siamensis ; under surface darker brown, and more richly spotted with violet and white. $ very much like 
elisa $, but with broader white markings above; the under surface has on the hindwing the bands rather narrower, 
more rectilinear; ground-colour deeper brown; white spots more reduced than in larymna, broader than in 
siamensis] under surface lighter than in siamensis, like larymna. North-Eastern and Western Sumatra. —- bang- bangkanen- 
kanensis subsp. nov., smaller than selessana, median bands uncommonly narrow, under surface much paler. 
Banka, type in Munich Museum. —- subcurvata Fruhst. unites in both sexes the characteristics of elisa from subcurvccta. 
Borneo in the narrow, yellowish bands of J 1 , and of larymna Dbd. from Java in the uncommonly broad trans¬ 
verse bands of The U is easily distinguished from that of the allied forms by the strongly curved subbasal 
band on the hindwing, which in elisa and still more in siamensis forms almost a straight line. Under surface 
