240 LEPWOPTERA INBICA. 



Anops eesopiis, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 160 (1869). 



Papilio phsedrus, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 125 (178L); id. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 79 (1787). 



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



Candalides phsedrus, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 73 (1816); id. Zutrage, Ex. Schmett. figs. 263, 



264, (J (1823). 

 Polyommatus phsedrus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 675 (1823). 

 Anops phsedrus, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. pi. 23, fig. 1, ^ (1836). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 160 



(1869). Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 135. 

 Curetis Phsedrus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 605. Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 33 (1884). de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, iii. p. 286, pi. 27, fig. 201, <J (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. 



p. 439 (1907). 

 Phaedra terricola, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 124 (1829). 

 Anops santana, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 54 (1857). 

 Curetis arcuata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 523, pi. 48, tig. 3, ^ . de Nice\-ille, Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 289 (1890). 

 Curetis thetys, var. arcuata, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 439 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside coppery-red. Forewing with a narrow black costal 

 band, very narrow at the base and very gradually increasing in width to the apex, 

 and then narrowing gradually to the hinder margin to a thick line ; the inner margin 

 of the costal band is generally more or less irregular, and the outer marginal band has 

 usually a few very short black lines running in on the veins. Hindwing with a very 

 narrow black costal band, and outer marginal black line, with some short black lines 

 running up the veins, abdominal fold greyish, some greenish-grey basal irrorations on 

 both wings. Underside, pure white, somewhat shining, both wings with two transverse, 

 indistinct greyish, somewhat sinuous bands, post-discal and sub-marginal. Antennas 

 black, tipped with red ; palpi black above, white beneath ; head and body brown above 

 with some greenish-ochreous hairs, white beneath, outer margin of the hindwing evenly 

 rounded. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown, nearly black. Forewing with the central 

 space white, including the outer half of the cell (a black spot at the upper end 

 running into the black costal border) and the outer and lower disc. Hindwing with 

 a white curved broad band in the upper disc, from the costa near the apex to the 

 middle of the wing, the base of both wings and the abdominal portion of the hindwing 

 paler than the rest of the wing. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % Irff to 1 j% inches. 



The black borders on the upperside vary a little in the males (but not much), the 

 grey indistinct bands on the underside seem to be quite constant in their dispositions 

 in each form, and enable one to separate one form from aiiother. 



Egg. — China white ; an oblate sphere, flatter below than above, or turbinate, 

 being shaped like many Echini, covered with very coarse hexagonal reticulations, the 

 apex" of the egg having a deep central depression. 



