248 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



Ctireiis malayica, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 202, pi. 22, fig. 28, $ (1884). Moore, Journ. Linn. 



See. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 39. Elwes and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 428. 



de NicevUle, Butt, of India, iii. p. 294 (1890). Friihstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 304. 

 Curetis hulls, form malayica, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 644. 

 Curetls lull's, var. malayica, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 444, woodcuts, figs 98, (J , 



99, ? (1907). 



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

 with black costal and outer marginal borders, commencing narrowly at the costal base, 

 broadening gradually to the end of the cell, where there is a black tooth-like 

 mark attached, then rapidly expanding towards the apex, where the band is very 

 deep, moderately broad at the middle of the outer margin, then expanding again 

 broadly at the hinder angle, where it runs inwards on the hinder margin, narrowing 

 rapidly to the middle, where in some specimens it ends, in others it is carried on 

 narrowly and diffusely to the base, the outer margin of the orange portion being 

 somewhat rounded, but more or less irregular. Hlndwing with a narrow black outer 

 marginal baud, commencing narrowly at the apex, widening hindwards, varying 

 somewhat in width in different examples, somewhat diffuse towards the anal angle, 

 where it becomes absorbed in the abdominal suffusion, which is broadly brown ; 

 abdominal fold pale, a thin black streak above the sub-costal vein from the base 

 to a little beyond the end of the cell, the wing slightly angular in the middle 

 of outer margin, anal angle somewhat produced. Cilia black ; head and body 

 brown above, with ochreous-green pubescence, white beneath. Underside white. 

 Foreicing with a thin grey band from the costa near the apex to the hinder 

 margin beyond the middle, a sub-marginal similar band. Hlndwing with a short 

 band from the costa beyond the middle in continuation of the discal band of the 

 forewing, a post-discal band from vein 6, becoming obsolete hindwards and a sub- 

 marginal band ; the inner bands on both wings edged outwardly by fine black lunular 

 lines, and both wings with minute black sub-marginal dots, the hindwing with very 

 minute black dots sparsely spread all over it, almost invisible to the naked eye, but 

 i|uite distinct under a magnifying glass. 



Female. Upperside white. Forewing with the outer black bands as in the male, 

 but broader. Hindwing with the vddth of the outer black bands varying much in 

 different examples, but paler in colour than in the male, usually somewhat diffused 

 blackish-brown, but the extent of the white is usually much more than in the females 

 of any other species of Curetis except dentata, the basal and abdominal areas thickly 

 irrorated with blackish-brown atoms. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ l-^-^ to 2^ inches. 



Larva about 16 m.m. long, colour velvety green; head dark brown, 3rd and 

 4th segments with narrow obliquely placed lateral stripe of crimson, edged posteriorly 



