LTC^NIDJE. TS 



hindwing with three transverse subbasal black spots, another on middle of abdominal 

 margin, and a larger one on costal margin near the apex; a brown discocellular 

 streak, a discal zigzag series of six narrow brown streaks, and a marginal row of 

 small blackish spots bordered inwardly by a narrow brown line and outwardly by 

 the marginal line. Markings most prominent in the female. Body brown, white 

 beneath; palpi black above; legs with black bands; antennas black, with whito 

 annulations. 



Expanse, ff f, 2 1 inch. 



" Eastein Province ; in beds of dry rivers in forest land. Taken in August on 

 road to Trincomalee in damp places in beds of streams in abundance " {Hutchison), 

 "Kandy" (Wade). 



Genus CURETIS. 

 Curetis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 102 (1816). 

 Ph<Bdm; Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 123 (1829), 

 Anops, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. pi. 7, C <L8S6); Westwood, G-en. D. Lep. p. 473. 



Wings broad : f orewing triangular ; costa much arched at the base ; apical and 

 posterior angles pointed, more or less acute; exterior margin slightly oblique; 

 posterior margin long ; costal vein short, extending to half length of the margin ; 

 first subcostal branch emitted at half length before end of the cell, second at one- 

 fourth before its end, thifd and fourth at half length beyond, fifth (or upper radial) 

 at a short distance before end of the ceil ; discbcellulars very slender, of nearly equal 

 length, slightly concave, radial from their middle ; cell large, extending to more than 

 half length of the wing; middle median branch emitted before end of the cell, lower 

 ■at one-third before its end ; submedian straight : hindwing short, bluntly oval, 

 anterior margin very convex, apex rounded, exterior margin convexly oblique (or 

 more or less angular in the middle and acute at anal angle), abdominal margin long; 

 ■costal vein very convex from the base, extending to apex; first subcostal branch 

 -emitted at one- fourth before end of the cell; discocellulars very slender, slightly 

 •concave, radial from their middle ; cell broad, long ; two upper median branches 

 emitted from end of the cell, lower at one-third before its end ; submedian vein 

 straight, internal long, recurved. Body moderately stout ; abdomen short ; palpi 

 porrect, clothed with fine adpressed scales., second joint long, projecting nearly half 

 its length beyond the head, third joint slender, flattened, about one-fourth length of 

 the second in the male and one-half in the female ; eyes hairy ; legs short, thick, 

 -clothed with adpressed scales, fore tarsi of male composed of a single joint, with an 

 obtuse claw at the tip and lateral spines beneath, fore tarsi of female composed of 

 five joints, with tw© minute claws at tip; antennae short, gradually thickening 

 jnto a long club. 



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