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It is entirely without angulations or processes, its widest portion 

 is the very broad and flat base on which it rests ; its length is 

 about T 7 ^ of an inch, breadth -f^, height ^, the anal end produced 

 into an obtuse point. Divisions between the segments hardly 

 visible. (After de Niceville.) * 



Imago. Robust in form aud structure ; wings short and broad, 

 indicating rapid powers of flight ; body comparatively massive ; 

 legs stout. Colouring on the upperside throughout the subfamily : 

 males coppery red of various shades with black edgings, females 

 white with similar black borders to the wings ; beneath : both 

 sexes silvery white. 



Genus CURETIS. 



Curetis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 102 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



i, 1881, p. 73; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 284. 

 Anops, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i, 1826, pi. 23, fig. 1. 



Type, C. cesopus, Fabr. (= tJietis, Cramer), from India. 



Ranye. Indo-Malayan Region. 



d $ . Fore wing : costa arched ; apex acute, in some forms or 

 varieties slightly produced, falcate ; termen comparatively very 

 long, giving great breadth to the wing, straight, sinuate or 

 concave, never oblique ; tornus formed into a right angle, the 

 angle clear cut, acute ; dorsum slightly sinuate, about three- 

 fourths the length of the costa ; cell about half length of wing ; 

 vein 7 from before upper apex of cell, upper discocellular there- 

 fore in line with and forming part of subcostal vein, middle aud 

 lower discocellulars obsolescent ; vein 3 from before, vein 4 from 

 lower apex of cell ; vein 5 at base midway between veins 4 and 6, 

 not closer to 6 than to 4 ; vein 6 from upper apex of cell ; vein 7 

 ends on termen below apex of wing; vein 8 absent ; vein 9 from 

 apical half of 7 ; veins ] and 11 free, from apical half of sub- 

 costal ; vein 12 terminates on costal margin nearly opposite 

 upper apex of cell. Hind wing : costa arched ; apex blunt ; 

 termen rounded, sometimes strongly angulate in the middle, the 

 posterior half then more or less concave ; tornus more or less 

 produced, the angle sometimes rounded sometimes acute ; dorsum 

 long, very slightly convex ; cell about half length of wing ; middle 

 and lower discocellulars obsolescent, oblique; veins 3 and 4 

 closely approximate at base, from lower apex of cell ; vein 8 very 

 strongly curved at base, terminates at apex of wing ; costal margin 

 above vein 8 near base of wing very broad, humeral angle broadly 

 rounded. Antennae short, not half length of fore wing, without a 

 distinct club, very gradually incrassate, bluntly rounded at apex ; 



* The above is taken almost verbatim from de Niceville's description of the 

 larva and pupa of Curetis thetis, Drury, the colouring only being left out. 

 This I have noted under the description of the form. The structure of the 

 larva and pupa of C. bulls, var. malayica, Felder, which I have myself reared, 

 is very similar, the differences I have noted under the description of that 

 form. " 



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