LYCANID. CURETIS. 295 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is one male from Perak named C. malayica by Mr. 
Distant, and one from Mergui so named by Mr. Moore. They agree fairly well with the figure 
of this species, which shows the red area on the upperside of the forewing somewhat large, a 
slender tooth at the disco-cellular nervules, and the base of the wing powdered with dusky ; 
the hindwing has some black powdering anteriorly against the subcostal nervure, the abdomi- 
nal margin powdered with dusky, and a narrow even outer black border. I possess specimens 
from Rangoon, the Donat range, and the Thoungyeen forests which I consider to represent this 
species. They are variable in the extent of the black coloration on the hindwing, and some 
of them lack the black tooth in the forewing. The specimen named by Mr. Distant in particu- 
lar agrees almost to the minutest particular with the one named C. dentata by Mr. Moore, it 
seems therefore that this species is as ill-defined and variable as most of the others. 
860. Curetis stigmata, Moore. 
Anops stigmata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 138; Curetis stigmata, id., Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 39 (1886). 
HasitaT: Moulmein, Mergui, Burma. 
EXPANSE : 1°62 inches. 
DeEscrIPTION: “ MALE. Forewing short, apex not falcate, exterior margin slightly 
scalloped, the bright red patch broad and sinuous on its apical border. AHindwing quite con- 
vex and even along exterior margin, with a well-defined black outer border and prominent 
black longitudinal narrow median basal brand or streak ; the abdominal border dusky.” 
“Has most resemblance to the male of C, thetys, Doubleday and Hewitson, in the con- 
tour of the wings.” (JZoore, 1. c.) 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a single male of this species taken by Dr. J. Anderson 
at Vimiki, King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago in February which has been named 
C..stigmata by Mr. Moore. The red patches on the upperside of the wings are moderately 
large, and there is no black tooth on the disco-cellular nervules of the forewing. I can find 
no character by which to distinguish it from some specimens of C. dud’s from Sikkim, and 
it agrees almost exactly with the specimen of that species I possess from the Wynaad. 
861. Quretis discalis, Moore. 
C. discalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1879, p. 138, 
Hasitat : Nepal, Darjiling. 
EXPANSE : 1°37 inches. 
Description : ‘‘ Mavg.: Distinguished on the UPPERSIDE by the bright red of the forewing 
being confined to a narrow elongated patch, and that on the Azzdzwzng also confined toa small 
oblong lunular discal patch, which is slightly dentate on the middle of its inner border. 
Forewing somewhat short and truncate.” (JZoore, 1. c.) 
I possess numerous specimens of this form from Sikkim, and find that there it gradually 
and by almost imperceptible steps grades into C. duis, Doubleday and Hewitson. Typical 
specimens are very distinct, as they are the darkest form found in the genus in India. The red 
area on the upperside of the forewing is confined to a small patch on the disc, which is separ- 
ated by the black ground-colour from the base, and occupies less than the lower half of the 
discoidal cell, the black tooth being absent ; the hindwing has an even smaller red area than 
the forewing. I also possess numerous typical forms sent me by Mr. S. E. Peal from Sibsagar 
in Upper Assam, and one from Jorehat in Lower Assam. 
C. sperthis, Felder, from the Malay Peninsula, is of this group. Its description is given 
below.* 
* Curetis (Anops) sperthis, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 222, n. 242 (1865); id., Butler, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 540, n. 2 (1877); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 203,n. 4, 
pl. xxii, fig. 27, female (1884). HapsrraT: Malacca, interior (¥elder); Malacca, Penang (Sxtler) ; Sungei Ujong 
(Distant). EXPANSE: 1°6 inches DEscRIP110N : “‘MaLE. UpPERSIDE, both wings coppery-reddish. Forewing with 
the costal border blackish-fuscous, continued on to the outer margin, broad at the apex, inwardly slightly excised, 
thence regularly narrowed and the internal angle covered almost up to the second third of the internal nervure. 
Hindwing with the subcostal neryure black, the costal border fuscous, running down the hinder margin rather 
