202 RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



1. Curetis malayica. (Tab. XXII. , fig. 28 J .) 



Aiwjis Malayica, Felder, Keise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 221, t. 28, f. 18 (1865); Butl. Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. 

 vol. i. p. 546, no. 1 |1877|. 



Not having received this species myself from the Malay Peninsula, I have followed my 

 previous course of giving a copy of both Felder's diagnosis and figure. 



" 3 . Alne supra cupreo-rutilse, anticje limbo costali, apud venulam transversam dentem subtilem 

 emittente, nigro-fusco, trianguhim sat latum apicalem iutus excisum et boc in triangulum analem nigro- 

 fuscuni, in raarginem internum obscuriorem se perdentem transeunte, postics vittula juxta truncum 

 subcostalem, atomaria margineque externo, postice latiore et atomario nigro-fuseis, dimidio apicab costae 

 fusco, regioue anab oljscuriore." 



" AliB sulitus subargenteo-albiie, nigro puuctulatse, striga externa undulata interrupts fracta ex atomis 

 nigris, altera submarginali obsoleta, puuctis uigris intramarginalibus, anticfe maculis tribus minutis uigris 

 subcostalibus." 



Exp. wings,* 45 millim. 



H.A.B. — Burma (coll. Dist.)— Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Com. de Castelnau — coll. Felder ; Pinwill — 

 Brit. l\Ius). 



The female of this species has probably the ground colour white, instead of red, as obtains 

 in the female sex of C. hulls and C. cesopus. 



•2. Curetis aesopus. (Tab. XXIV., fig. 12^.) 



I'apilio .F.sopHs, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 125, a. 565 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 79, n. 719 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. 



p. 307, n. 164 (1793). 

 Am.ps .-E.w/xK, But!. Catl. Fabr. Lepid. p. 160, n. 1 (1869). 



Male. Wings above closely resembling tbosc of C. mahvika, but tbe anterior wings having the black 

 area more reduced, and not widened at outer angle nor extending along inner margin. Wings beneath 

 pearly-wliite ; anterior wings witb a pale bluisb oblique lunulated fascia, outwardly and narrowly margined 

 witb l)lackisb, commencing at upper discoidal nervule, and a marginal series of small black spots preceded by 

 an obscure pale bluisb lunulated fascia ; posterior wings witb a short oblique pale bluisb fascia commencing 

 on costal nervure a little before apex ; some short and similar indistinct fasciae on disk and a marginal 

 series of black spots preceded by a pale bluisb lunulated fascia as on anterior wings. Body al)ove fuscous ; 

 beneath witb tbe sternum and legs greyish white, tbe femora and tibiffi more or less anuulated with 

 brownish ; abdomen pale brownish ; palpi greyisb white, witb their apices black. 



Female. This is tbe sex of tbe typical specimen! contained in the Banksian Collection in tbe 

 British Museum, and is thus described : — 



" Alis integerrimis supra fuscis, macula alba; subtus albis immaculatis ; habitat in India orientah." 



Exp. wings, 40 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



Although I have not received the female from the Malay Peninsula, I have carefully 

 (■.)nii)ared the male specimen here figured with the female type of the Fabrician species, and 



,, , '■ Felder's fiRure.— In all my Rivon measurements the expanse is calculated from tip to tip of wing. Mr. Butler (Cist. 

 l.nl. vcl. HI. p. f,8) 1ms recently ar-ued that "fairly- it should be "from tip of wing to centre of thorax, doubled." 



I I refer only to the type, and not to the Moulmein specmiens enumerated as belonging to the species by Mr. Butler 

 (.Cat. l'al)r. Lepid. p. IGO, 11. 1 (isiiyi. o & i j 



