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vein 7 emitted a little before the upper end of cell, discocellulars very faint, vein 5 

 absent, veins 3 and 2 close together near the lower end of the cell ; in the male 

 there is a glandular patch at the origin of vein 2 distorting the lower margin of the 

 cell and altering the relative positions of veins 2 and 3 ; costa highly arched at the 

 base, then nearly straight towards apex, which is rounded and well pronounced, outer 

 margin evenly convex, hinder angle also well pronounced. Antennae about half as 

 long as the costa of forewing, club moderate, with a pointed, abrupt crook ; palpi with 

 the second joint densely scaled, third joint minute, obtusely conical ; hind tibiae nearly 

 naked and with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Cupitha tympanifera, Moore. 



CUPITHA PURREEA.. 

 Plate 813, figs. 1, <J , la, ? , lb, $. 



Pamphila purreea, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. .594, pi. 58, fig. 10. Wood-Mason and 



de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 261. 

 Ciqntha purreea, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 48. Hampson, id. 1888, p. 366. Elwes, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 452. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 57 ; id. Hesp. Ind. 



p. 64 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 652. Watson, id. 1893, p. 112. de Niceville, 



Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 184 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435 ; 



id. idem, x. 1896, p. 680. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, pp. 39, 40 (larva and pupa). 



Evans, id. xx. 1910, p. 389. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 245. Friihstorfer, 



Iris, 1911, p. 28. 

 Cupitha tympanifera, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 48. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, markings gamboge-yellow. Forewiny 

 with a broad sub-costal streak from the base, ending in a point about the middle of tlie 

 wing and a post-medial band, varying in width in different examples, commencing in a 

 pointed wedge-shaped streak from the base, running above the sub-median vein to a 

 little beyond its middle, then inclining obliquely upwards to about one-fourth from 

 the apex, with a large knob below its middle and a smaller knob at its end. Hindwing 

 with a transverse band varying in width in different examples, extending from the 

 middle of vein 1 to the middle of vein 6 ; its edges irregular, and in some examples it 

 runs up narrowly and obscurely along the costal border. Cilia jiure yellow at th& 

 anal angle of the hindwing, becoming more and more touched with In-own upwards. 

 Underside dull gamboge-yellow. Forewing with a black streak filling the whole of the 

 cell to near its end and extending downwards somewhat at its middle ; a black bar 

 across the end of the cell, a large black patch at the hinder angle, llindicing with one, 

 sometimes two black streaks down the wing near the abdominal margin. Antennae 

 black, the shaft yellowish beneath, the tip of the club pale red ; palpi, head and body 



