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the veins run some little way into the wing as black lines from the black border. 

 This black border and the outline of the wings is fairly identical in the two species, 

 and it is to be remarked that in both, the dark veins cut off two or three small 

 pear-shaj)ed portions opposite the middle of the costa. Opposite the middle of the 

 hindmargin of the forewing the sections of copper between tbe veins are rounded 

 or convex in celebeiisis and somewhat concave in tagalica. In celebensis there is 

 also a dark (discal) line down the discocellular nervure. I have called this form of 

 tagalica var. doherti/i. 



On the underside the specimens of tagalicah&ve a good deal of the dark clouding 

 that so often characterises that species. This is almost absent in celcbensis. In 

 celebensis the sections of the postdiscal line are more conve.K than in tagalica, in one 

 specimen only the one descending to vein iv on both wings, instead of curving inwards 

 as in other specimens and as in fagalica, continues obliquely outwards and meets 

 vein IV much nearer the hindmargin than when the line continues on the other 

 side of the vein. 



The Appendages. The aedeagns is just over 2 mm. long. It much resembles 

 that of thetis ; the loose terminal plate is very large ; there is an ordinary-looking 

 series of corunti. The hooks of the tetrnmen have their tips bent sharply round 

 into a hook. The harjie is largely free from the valve, is clothed sparsely with 

 hairs, and has the appearance of having a chitinous cap, overhanging towards 

 the valve. 



C. thetis var. egrna {q.v.) is also a member of this mimetic group. 



eos Eober, Iris i. p. 1S8. pi. vii. 6g. 9 (1887). 



I have not seen a specimen of this variety. The description and figure are of 

 a ? specimen, and I have not met with any account of the male. The figure seems 

 to be a very good one, except that, being photographic, the rusty areas are not shown. 

 The nnderside markings leave little doubt that it is identical with celebensis Felder. 

 The only difference is that it is a very small specimen — 32 mm. against 40 mm. and 

 upwards. 



4. Curetis saronis Moore. 



Fig. 19. Male, nnderside. 



Appendages. Fig. 65. saronis (Andamans). 



,, „ 66. „ var. nicobarica (Nicobars). 



,, „ 67. „ „ gloriosa (Rangoon). 



saronis Moore, Proc. Zool. Sue. Loud. 1877. p. 587 (S. Andamans). 

 gloriosa Moore, I.e. 1883. p. 522. pi. xlviii. fig. 1. ^ . 

 nicobarica Swinhoe, Ann. ]tftig. N. II. (6). v. p. 451 (1890). 



These three forms are one species : gloriosa is a continental race of large size, 

 saronis is a smaller insular form. Of nicobarica I have not yet been able to obtain 

 a specimen that did not prove on dissection to be saronis. 



Referring to Col. Swinhoe a question as to a sjiecimen I had as nicobarica, he 

 informed me that the sj)ecimen came from tlie Andamans and was saronis, and that 

 at one time specimens in his collection were marked nicobarica = saronis. He 

 now differentiates nicobarica from saronis by the females — " the female of nicobarica 

 is a brown insect, the female of this insect has white patches in the middle of the 

 wings." To this I may say, however, that I have an Andaman female that has no 

 white patches, and that. ? nicobarica in the Tring and in my collection have the 



