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and occupies tlie whole of tlie central space, leaving the wing with very broad brownish - 

 black margins, and some blackish-brown irrorations on the basal portions, in typical 

 discalis the red portion is confined to a small space in the middle of the wing, but in a 

 large series one finds a general gradation from one to the other, the contour of the 

 wing is somewhat different to that of the thetys group, the wing being shorter, the 

 apex more blunt and the hinder angle more acute. Hindwing with the orange-red 

 curved patch in the upper disc also varying much in extent in different examples ; the 

 outer margin slightly angled in its middle, the anal angle sub-acute. Underside white. 

 Forewing with a narrow pale grey band, outwardly edged with thin black lunules from 

 the costa near the apex, in an almost straight line to the hinder margin a little beyond 

 the middle, a sub-marginal series of pale grey lunular marks. Hindwing with a short 

 band from the middle of the costa in continuation of the inner baud of the forewing, a 

 post-discal almost straight band of somewhat disconnected pale greyish lunular marks, 

 and a sub-marginal pale band. 



Female. Upperside dark brownish-black. Forewing with a pure white space in 

 its middle which varies in extent in different examples, in some examples it runs 

 broadly to the lower part of the base of the wing, where it is covered with blue-grey 

 irrorations, and has a black spot at the end of the cell joined to the costal border, in 

 others it is of an oblong oval shape in the middle of the wing. Hindwing with a 

 narrow curved white patch in the upper disc, its upper part joining a narrow white 

 costal border. Underside as in the male, but there are usually some black sub- 

 marginal dots on both wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ lyV to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Northern India. 



Distribution. — Common in Sikkim and Assam, we have received many examples 

 of both sexes from Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills, Doherty records it from Kumaon, 

 Moore from Darjiling, Sylhet and Bhutan, de Niceville from the Chin Hills, and 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri. 



CURETIS DENTATA. 

 Plate 700, figs. 1, (J, la, $, lb, $. 



Curetis dentata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 137, and 1882, p. 244. de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 iii. p. 293 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 49. Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 383. de Rhe-Philipe, id. p. 886. 



Curetis hulis, var. dentata, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 443, woodcut, fig. 96, ^ (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside orange-red with a slight bronzy gloss. Forewing 

 with broad black margins, broadest at the apex and at the hinder angle ; the inner 

 border of the black margin almost evenly rounded, the black marginal band 



