LYC-ENID, CURETIS, 287 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings shining coppery-red. Forewing with the 
costal and outer margins very narrowly black. Hindwing with a very narrow black marginal 
line, that colour extending a short distance up the veins. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pure 
silvery-white, with some indistinct macular bands and spots. 
The above description is drawn up from a male specimen from Orissa which has been 
named C. phedrus by Mr. Moore. I possess another male from Orissa, one from Ganjam, 
two from Bangalore, and one from the Pulni Hills which more or less agree with this speci- 
men. All these specimens have the black border on the upperside of both wings the narrowest 
of all. In the Lepidoptera of Ceylon Mr. Moore places C. phedrus as a synonym of C. ¢hetis, 
but the specimen to which he has given the former name has the black margin narrower 
than is shewn in his figure of C. ¢hetis. C. phedrus as here understood does not appear to 
be constant to any particular locality, as in three places out of the four from which I have 
received it the wider-bordered C. ¢hetis also occurs. Mr. Aitken remarks that in Bombay 
‘*though nowhere plentiful, it may be met with in every part of the Presidency, It appears 
after, or perhaps before, the end of the monsoon, and remains till the end of the year. In 
the afternoon, when most other Butterflies have retired to rest, it loves to bask in the sun on 
a small tree or high bush, with wings just a little open,’ These remarks probably apply to 
the true C. ¢hetis. 
The figure shews both sides of the male specimen from Khurda, Orissa, in my collection 
which kas been named C. phedrus by Mr. Moore. 
850. Curetis thetis, Drury. 
Papilio thetis, Drury, Ill. Ex. Ent., vol. ii, p. 16, pl. ix, figs. 3, 4, female (1773); id., Cramer, Pap, 
Ex., vol. iii, p. 77, pl. ccxxxvili, fig. D, /emale (1779) ; Anops thetys, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 
E. I. C., vol. i, p. 52, n. 93, pl. xii, figs. 5, darva; sa, pupa (1857); Anops thetys, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. 
Lep., p. 15, n. 1 (1863); Curetis thetys, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. 1, p. 74, pl. xxxiv, figs. 2, male ; 2a, feanale 
(1881) ; id., de Nicéville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. iii, p. 165, pl. xxvi, darve, pupa, and tentaculum 
(2888) ; id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 279, pl. xcvi, made and female (1888); Phaedra terricola, Horsfield, 
Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 124, n. 51 (1829). 
HABITAT: Bombay (Drury); Tranquebar (Cramer) ; Java (Horsfield) ; North India, 
Canara (Horsfield and Moore) ; Ceylon (Moore) ; Barrackpore (Xothney and Moore). 
EXPANSE: ¢, 9, 1°75 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wings glossy cupreous-red. Forewing with 
a narrow black costal and exterior marginal band, the inner border of which is jagged on the 
veins and acute at the apex. Aindwing with a black costal border and very narrow marginal 
band, abdominal border cupreous-brown. ody cupreous-brown, thorax and head tinged with 
olive-brown. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings glossy-white, with a very faintly indicated dusky lunular 
transverse discal fascia, and a marginal row of more distinct black speckles. FEMALE. UPprer- 
SIDE, both wings dark brown. Forewing with a broad white medial discal patch. Aindwing 
with a narrow white irregular curved upper discal band. Cz/za white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
as in the male. Zegs with red band above. /al/fi black above. Antenne black, tipped with 
red.” (Jfoore, |. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
Ecc china-white ; an oblate sphere, flatter below than above, or turbinate, being shaped like 
many Zchini, covered with a very coarse hexagonal reticulation, the apex of the egg havinga 
deep central depression. LARVA on emergence eats a hole through the top of the egg about 
equalling one-third of its upper surface and crawls out- The empty shell has a close superficial 
resemblance to an echinus shell. The larva is pale ochreous in colour, and is furnished with 
long stout white hairs, of which a subdorsal series is on each side, with one long hair springing 
from the apex of each tubercle ; there are besides other lateral series, and numerous hairs pro- 
jecting forwards in front of the head and backwards over the anal segment. The full-grown 
larva is the most beautiful known to me among the Zycenide. It is about 7} of an inch 
in length, of the exact shade of green of the leaves on which it feeds, the head pale 
ochreous and more completely hidden than in any larva I have ever seen, and even when the 
