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crossed transversely by discal and inner subterminal, somewhat 

 lunular dark lines and a more or less obsolescent outer sub- 

 terminal line of minute dark dots. These markings generally 

 very indistinct but traceable ; in some specimens more clearly 

 defined but never prominent. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dusky black ; the antennae reddish at apex ; in some 

 specimens the head, the thorax laterally and the base of the 

 abdomen brownish mouse-colour ; beneath : the palpi, thorax and 

 the basal half of the abdomen medially silvery white, the sides 

 and apex of the abdomen dusky black. $ . Upperside : fore wing 

 dark brownish-black ; a large medial patch that extends from vein 1 

 to vein 4, enters the lower half of the cell and extends from base 

 outwards for about two-thirds the length of the wing, white ; at 

 the base of the wing this patch is shaded and obscured for a short 

 distance by dusky black. Hind wing : pale dusky black ; a darker, 

 short, broad brownish-black streak from base along the subcostal 

 vein, that outwardly broadens into an irregularly round patch be- 

 yond which is a broad short upper discal white band with ill-defined 



Fig. %3.Curctis thetis. 

 a. Male. 1>. Female. 



and somewhat diffuse margins. Cilia, fore and hind wings : white. 

 Underside : as in the c? but the markings still more indistinct, and 

 in no specimen that I have seen is there any trace of the outer 

 subterminal line of dark dots. 



Exp. rf $ 41-45 mm. (1-62-1-78"). 



Hob. Peninsular India, south of the Himalayas, but not in the 

 desert tracts cr in areas with a scanty rainfall ; Ceylon ; parts of 

 Assam ; Upper Burma ; Java. 



Larva. " On emergence eats a hole through the top of the egg 

 about equalling one-third of its surface and crawls out. The 

 empty shell has a close superficial resemblance to an echinus 

 shell. In colour pale ochreous, furnished with long stout white 

 hairs of which a subdorsal series is on eacli side, with one long 

 hair springing from the apex of each tubercle ; there are, besides, 

 other lateral series and numerous hairs projecting forwards in 

 front of the head and backwards over the anal segment. The 



