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Show 1895.] MR. H. H. DRUCE O N BORNEAN LYC.ENIDIE. 569 PORITIA PHERETIA. Poritia pheretia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 346 ; 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 217, pi. lxxxix. figs. 16, 17, 18 (1878). Sandakan. Mr. H. J. Elwes has sent me for examination a single female specimen which is referable to this species. PORITIA PHALIA. Poritia phalia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345; 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 216, pi. lxxxviii. figs. 10, 11 (1878). Borneo (Loiv). This species is known to me only by tbe type in the British Museum. PORITIA PHILURA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1 d •) d. Upperside jet-black, with brilliant greenish-blue patches and spots arranged much as in Simiskina pharyge, Hew., but generally larger; the central streak in the fore wing, which in S. pharyge is comparatively straight, is bent upwards at the base of the first median nervule and occupies the upper half of the cell: costal margin of hind wing from base nearly to apex broadly pale orange; tuft of hairs near base black. Underside uniform yellowish buff: fore wing with a thin dark streak at the end of the cell, a central irregular line composed of minute white spots inwardly bordered with black, halfway between this and the margin a faint parallel line composed of dull reddish lunules, a reddish anteciliary line; cilia black : hind wing as described above, but the first two spots of the central line which commences on the costal margin large and distinct, a narrow black line inwardly bordering the reddish anteciliary line, and within that towards the anal angle a greyish sinuous line; cilia black at the tips of the nervules, greyish in between. Head, thorax, and abdomen black above, yellowish beneath; legs black, spotted with yellow above, yellow below. Expanse If inch. Kina Balu (Waterstr.). Type Mus. Staud. Dr. Staudinger has sent me this distinct species and writes that it is unique. So far as I can see it agrees with Poritia in neuration, but is without the tuft of long hairs at the base of the sub-median nervure of the hind wing, which is present in typical Poritia, nor has it the tuft of hairs below the cell which is said to be a distinctive character of Simiskina. P. philura is distinguished from S. pharyge on the upperside by the yellow costal margin of the hind wing, and is very different below. SIMISKINA, Distant. SIMISKINA PHARYGE. Poritia pharyge, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 345 ; 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye, p. 215, pi. lxxxviii. figs. 8, 9, d • |