CURETIS. I3T 



A genus peculiar to Australia, including a few species of 

 large and handsome Butterflies, generally measuring nearly two 

 inches in expanse, and blue or green above, with broad black 

 borders (sometimes wholly brown or black in the females), and 

 with the hind-wings shorter than the fore-wings, and not tailed, 

 but strongly dentated. The sub-costal region of the fore- 

 wings is transversely banded beneath with white, blue, brown, 

 or black, and occasionally with red, and the hind-wings are 

 generally irregularly banded or spotted with brown, on a bluish- 

 grey ground. The type is Ogyris abrota (Doubled. & Hew.), 

 a very deep purple species, expanding rather more than an inch 

 and a half across the wings. It is bordered with black, and the 

 fore-wings are distinctly dentated as well as the hind-wings. The 

 wings are nearly black beneath, with only some slight transverse 

 bluish-white markings in the cell of the fore-wings. The female 

 has black fore-wings, with a large round yellow spot in the 

 middle; the base of the fore-wings, and the hind- wings are light 

 brown. 



GENUS CURETIS. 



Curetis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 102 (1816); Schatz 

 & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 276 (1892). 



Anops, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. pi. 23, fig. i (1836); 

 Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 473 (1852). 



A curious little genus, including a number of closely-allied 

 forms, found throughout the Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions. 

 They expand rather less than two inches across the broad sub- 

 triangular fore-wings, which are more or less pointed at the tip ; 

 the hind-wings are rounded, or else with a rectangular pro- 

 jection in the middle of the hind-margin. The type is an 

 Indian species, Curetis thetys (Drury), the male of which is 

 coppery-red above, with a rather narrow black border ; the 

 female is brown, with a large white blotch on each wing. The 



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