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Desceiption : Male. Upperside, both icings rich fulvous, darken- 

 ing- towards the outer margins. Hindwing rather brighter and richer 

 coloured than the forewing. Underside, both icings ochreous-brown, 

 with a distinct glossy sheen in some lights. Foreicing with a short 

 deep brown streak towards the base of the discoidal cell ; a broad band 

 across its middle, extending posteriorly into the submedian interspace ; 

 a still broader irregularly-edged discal band, commencing near the 

 costa, ending on the first median nervule ; a very obscure marginal 

 line ; a regularly scalloped submarginal line ; within which and nearer 

 to it than to the discal band is a series of six round ochreous dots 

 placed one each on the internervular folds, the anterior dot of all out 

 of line, shifted inwardly. Hindwing, with the anal half of the wing 

 deep brown, in which the deep brown markings of the anterior half 

 of the wing become entirely merged ; a deep brown spot towards the 

 base of the discoidal cell ; a subbasal band crossing the middle of 

 the cell ; a discal band ; a submarginal line — all much as in the 

 forewing ; a series of seven dots as in the forewing, but curving re- 

 gularly across the disc, one in each interspace, except the submedian, 

 which has two. 



C. kirata may be known from specimens of C. arcesilaus, Fabricius, 

 from all the localities from which I have received the latter (many 

 parts of Assam and the Malay Peninsula, Java, and Borneo) by the 

 much greater breadth of the deep brown bands of the underside, 

 these becoming quite lost in the dark anal half of tht hindwing ; in 

 C. arcesilaus the hindwing is concolorous throughout, and the bands 

 (which are so narrow as to be lines rather than bands) are plainly 

 visible throughout their course. 



Mr. Doherty has kindly *ent me his unpublished MS. description 

 of this species, from which the following is extracted: — "The pre- 

 hensores present strong differences. Seen from the side the uncus 

 of C. kirata beyond the usual globose base runs obliquely downwards 

 for some distance, and ends in a short vertical drop with a single 

 acute point, the branches are regularly curved forward from their 

 bases. In C. arcesilaus the uncus is sinuous, and ends in a long in- 

 curved hook ; the branches are also sinuous and distinctly angled 

 about half-way from the base, slender and straight beyond the angle. 

 In C. gracilis, Butler, from the Malay Peninsula and North Borneo, 



