294 LYCAENIDZE. CURETIS. 
(Hewitson, 1. c.) “ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings distinguished by the white patches being 
larger [than in C. ¢hetis]. Forewing having a disco-cellular dentiform mark of black. UNDER- 
SIDE, both wings creamy-white, with a darkish band running from the anterior angle of the 
forewing in a straight line to the anal angle of the hindwing, the whole surface being covered 
with very minute dark brown dots.” (Horsfield and Moore, |. c.) 
Mr. Doherty remarks (1. c.) ‘Male as in C. ¢hetzs, the red of the forewing occupying most 
of the cell, but not extending above the second median nervule on the disc, the hind margin 
widely black. Female with a large white medial area on the forewing indented at the end of the 
cell. Hindwing with a small lunular white patch on the disc, extending to the whitish costa. 
It thus seems to resemble C. dentata, Moore, in colouring, but the hindwing, like the forewing, 
is very strongly angled. My specimens [from Kumaon] vary remarkably in size. Though the 
prehensores are very complicated in this genus, I have not been able to detect the slightest 
difference between those of the two species (?) here called C. dz/és and C. thetzs.” 
“One male from Ponsekai, Tavoy, which agrees in markings and colour with the two figures 
above quoted, but in the angulation of both wings is about intermediate between them.” (Z/wes 
and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p- 428, n- 90, 1886). 
The figure of the type of this species shows a form with the apex of the forewing very 
acute, the outer margin nearly straight, no dentate black mark at the end of the cell, the red 
area on both wings somewhat large, but more restricted than in typical C. dentata; the hind- 
wing evenly rounded, not at all angulated in the middle, It is the commonest form in Sikkim 
and Assam, and I possess a single specimen from the Wynaad. In Sikkim it runs into 
C, angulata as regards its outline, and into C, dentata, C. discalis, and C. malayica as regards its 
coloration, and Iam quite unable to draw the line between any of these species with any satisfac- 
tory results. Hewitson’s and Staudinger’s figures are not typical, but appear to represent the 
form angulata, Moore. 
859. Curetis malayica, Felder. 
Anops malayica, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 221, n. 241, pl. xxviii, fig. 18, ale (1865); id, 
Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 546, n. 1 (1877); Cuvetis madlayica, Distant, 
Rhop. Malay., p.202,n. 1, pl. xxii, fig. 28, »za/e (1884); id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. 
Xxi, Pp. 39 (1886) ; C. ? malayica, Elwes and de Nicéville, Journ A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 428, n. 89 (1886). 
HasitaT : Mergui Archipelago (JZoore) ; Burma (D7stant) ; Malacca interior (Fe/der). 
EXPANSE: 6, I'9 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings coppery-reddish. . Forewing with the 
costal border blackish-fuscous, emitting a slender tooth at the transverse vein [disco-cellular 
nervules}, continued over the apical triangle rather broad inwardly excised, and merging into 
the blackish-fuscous anal triangle and losing itself in the dusky powdering of the inner margin. 
Hindwing with a powdery streak adjoining the subcostal nervure, and withthe external margin 
powdery, broader hindwards, both blackish-fuscous, the apical half of the costa fuscous, the 
anal region darker. UNDERSIDE, oth wings somewhat silvery-whitish, dotted with black, an 
external undulate striga of black atoms interruptedly broken, another submarginal obsolete; 
and black dots within the margin. Forewing with three minute black subcostal dots.” 
*“Most nearly related to 4. [=C.] dulis, Westwood and Hewitson, resembles the figure 
of the upperside of the hindwing in Moore's A. santana [=C. phedrus, Fabricius, from Java], 
differs from it, however, in having the anal angle of the hindwing less prominent.” (Fé/der, 1. c.) 
“The female of this species has probably the ground-colour white, instead of red, as 
obtains in the female sex of C. dzlis and C. esopus.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
** One male from Tavoy and four from Ponsekai agree more closely with the figure of this 
species than with any other, but differ from it on the upperside of the hindwing in the black 
margin being broader and inwardly diffused, not sharply defined, narrow, and even, as in Fel- 
der’s figure. These specimens agree exactly with some from Sikkim, in which locality there 
appears to be every gradation between this species and the most highly angulated C, dudis, 
Doubleday and Hewitson.” (Z/wes and de Nicéville, \. c.) 
