RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 203 



have no doubt as to their identity. It is quite (specificnlly or racially) distinct from C. thctijs, 

 Dru., and not synonymic with that species, as stated by Mr. Kirby * and by Mr. Moore, t 



3. Curetis felderi, \ n. sp. (Tab. XXIV., fig. S3; Tal). XXII., lig. 2G 9 .) 



Male. Wiugs less an,i:;nlar than in the preceding species, the apex of the anterior wing and the anal 

 angle of the posterior wing more rounded and less produced. Colour above as in preceding species ; 

 anterior wings with the black area smaller, the apical portion more regularly concave interiorly, and 

 narrower at outer angle ; posterior wings with the outer black margin narrower. Wings beneath pearly 

 white ; markings as in preceding species, but the faseise darker and more continuous, the apex of the 

 anterior wings also broadly infuscated. 



Female. Wings above pale orange-yellow ; anterior wings with the costal margin, the apex, outer 

 margin, and outer half of inner margin broadly dark brown ; posterior wings wholly dark brown, with the 

 exception of a large discal orange-yellow patch extending from base of upper median nei'vule to apex of wing. 

 Wings beneath as in the male, but with the fascise darker, broader, and more regularly curved and continuous. 

 Body above dark brown ; sternum and legs greyish white, tibiae and tarsi annulated with brown : palpi 

 greyish white, their apices dark brown. 



Exp. wings, <? and ? , 40 to 45 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Sungei Ujong (Godfery and Durnford) ; 

 Singapore (Kerr). 



This species is allied to C. insularis, Horsf. (with the type of which in the Horsfield 

 collection I have carefully compared it§), but by the under surface, in particular, it is 

 rendered very distinct. 



4. Curetis sperthis. (Tab. XXII., fig. 27 ? .) 



Aiiops spertliis, Feliler, Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 222 (1865) ; Butl. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, 

 n. 2 (1877). 



Female. Wings above dark chocolate-brown ; a large discal streak on anterior wings, occupying 

 nearly all the lower half of cell, and deflected and covering more than half of the median nervules, 

 and a discal patch on posterior wings, which is much waved and sinuated and extends from near apex 

 to upper median nervule, orange-yellow. Wings beneath pearly grey, with a small fuscous streak near 

 end of cells of both wings, a waved fuscous linear fascia crossing both wings a little beyond middle, 

 followed by a wider and more obscure fascia and a submarginal series of dark fuscous linear spots. Body 

 both above and beneath more or less concolorous with wings. Palpi pearly grey, with their upper surface 

 and apex fuscous. Legs pearly grey, more or less annulated with fuscous. 



Male. A specimen of this sex in the British Museum resembles the female, but has the pale discal 

 markings on the upper surface of the wings more reddish in hue, and the discal patch on the posterior 

 wings larger in size. 



Exp. wings, 41 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.); Malacca (Castelnau— coll. Fold.; 

 Pmwill— Brit. Mus.). 



* Syn. Cat. Diuru. Lepid. p. 418, u. 1. t Lepiil. Cej-lon, vol. i. p. 74. 



t Named after C. and E. Felder, whose memoir, " Lepidoptera nova in Pipninsula Malayica Collecta" (W'ien. Eut. Mou. 

 iv. 1860) may be considered as the first real contribution to a knowledge of this Khopalocerous fauna. 



;: This important collection of Dr. Horsfield, containing so many types, is no longer kept in its separate condition at the 

 British Museiun, but is now incorporated with the general collection— a matter of some regi-et — mitil an accoimt is published 

 under what genera the species are placed, and which species are sunk as synonyms of others. 



