64 CUPITHA. 



GENUS XXIV. CUPITHA. 

 Cupilha, Moore, J. A. S. B,, 1884, p. 47. 



" Male. Forewing [elongated, triangular, costa arched at the base, 

 exterior margin oblique, posterior margin convex towards the base ; first 

 subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of cell, the branches at 

 equal distance apart ; cell extending to nearly two-thirds length of the 

 wing; disco-cellular almost erect, slightly bent close to upper end and 

 below the middle ; the middle median at one-sixth and lower median 

 at four-sixths before end of cell, submedian undulated ; on the underside of 

 the forewing is a short, broad, nacreous patch on the middle of posterior 

 margin, across which the submedian is lined with rough scales, and from 

 near the base of the margin projects a broad pencil of long rigid hairs : 

 hindwing short, costa very much arched from the base, apex rounded : 

 costal vein extending to near apex, forked at its base : subcostal bent 

 upward and slightly joined to costal close to the base : subcostal two- 

 branched, first branch from close to end of the cell ; disco-cellular very 

 slender, slightly oblique and concave ; cell extending to nearly half the 

 wing, of equal width throughout : middle median from near end of the cell, 

 lower at more than one-half before the end, the portion from the middle median 

 distorted and extending, beneath a drum-like glandular sac, which extends upwards in 

 a circular form within the cell from bast of lower median, the sac or drum as seen 

 from the upperside is flat with a well defined circular rim, and on the 

 underside it stands out from the surface in a corrugated circular form ; 

 no radial present ; submedian straight, internal vein curved. 



Thorax stout ; antennae with a slender club. 



Type, C. tympanifera." (Moore, I. c.) 



89. CUPITHA PURREEA, MOORE. 



Pamphila purreea, Moore, P.Z.S., 1877, P- 594? P^ l vn 'i> % IO - 



Pamphila purreea, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J.A.S.B., 1881, p. 261. 



Cupitha tympanifera, Moore, J.A.S.B., 1884, P- 4^- 



11 Upperside blackish-brown ; cilia yellow, slightly alternated with 

 black ; forewing with a gamboge-yellow basal streak, and a median 

 oblique irregular band commencing from near apex, extending to hind- 

 margin and terminating at its base ; hindwing with a short median 

 yellow band. Underside sulphur-yellow; forewing with a broad dark- 

 brown basal streak, a small spot at end of cell, and a large patch at 

 posterior angle ; hindwing with a brown-speckled streak along inner 

 margin, terminating broadly at anal angle. Body above brown, head 

 and thorax interspersed with yellow hairs ; abdomen narrowly banded 

 with yellow; palpi black above, yellow below. Legs and body beneath 

 yellow. 



Expanse : i inches. 



Habitat : S. Andamans (Port Blair)." (Moore, I. c.) 



