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Genus CURETIS. 



Cureiis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 102 (1816). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 73 (1881). Distant, 

 Rhop. Malayana, p. 201 (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 284 (1890). Bingham, 

 Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 435 (1907). 



Phsedra, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.T.C. p. 123 (1829). 



Anops, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. pi. 23, tig. 1 (1836). Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 473 (18.52). 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted at one-third before 

 end, 10 at one-fourth before the end, 9 out of 7 from its middle, 7 ends on outer 

 margin below the apex of the wing, 8 absent, 6 from upper end of cell, 4 from lower 

 end, 5 from the middle of discocellulars, 3 from before lower end. Hlndwwg with the 

 cell about half the length of the wing ; middle and lower discocellulars obsolescent, 

 oblique, vein 8 strongly curved at base and ends at the apex of the wing, 3 and 4 

 emitted close together from the lower end of the cell. Antennae short, less than half 

 the length of the costa of forewings, without a distinct club, very gradually incrassate, 

 bluntly rounded at apex, palpi porrect, densely clothed in front with short scales, 

 third joint thick and short in the male, longer in the female. 



Type, fesopus, Fabricius = theti/s, Cramer. 



SECTION I. 

 AVith rounded hindwings. 



CURETIS THETYS. 

 Plate 698, figs. 1, jj , la, ^ , lb, (J , Ic, larva and pupa, natural size, Id, larva and pupa enlarged, 

 with brush on twelfth segment extended. 



Papilio thetys, Drury, 111. Ex. Eut. ii. p. 16, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4, 5 (1773). Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 



p. 77, pi. 238, fig. D, 9 (1779). 

 Anops thetys, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 52, pi. 12, fig. 5, larva, 5a, pupa 



(1857). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 15 (1863). 

 Cureiis thetys, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 74, pi. 34, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, 9 (1881). Doherty, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 127. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 165, pi. 26, larva, 



pupa, and tentaculum. Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 279, pi. 96, J, 9 (1888). Hampson, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 287 (1890). Manders, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 33. Bethani, id. 



1891, p. 181. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1893, p. 48. Bingham (part). Fauna of Brit. 



India, Butt. ii. p. 437, woodcut, figs. 93, a, b (1890). 

 Papilio cinyra, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 76, pi. 238, fig. C, ^ (1779). 

 Anops cinyra, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 53 (1857). 

 Papilio aesopus, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 125 (1781). Mant. Ins. ii. p. 79 (1787). Herbst, Pap. pi. 



325, figs. 3, 4, ? (1804). 

 Hesperia sesopus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 307 (1793). 

 Curetis sesopus, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 102 (1816). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 202, 



pi. 24, fig. 12, (J (1884), and p. 451, pi. 44, tig. 14, ? (1886). 



