74 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



CURETIS THETYS (Plate 34, Fig. 2, 2a, $ q^. 



Papilio Theti/s, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 9, f. 3, 4 (1773), 5 ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. ill. pi. 238, P. D, 9. 



Papilio j'Esopus, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 125 (1781), 2 . 



Papilio Phcedrus, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 125 (1781), $ . 



Anops Phcedrus et ^sopus, Butler, Catal. Fabriciaa Lap. B. M. p. 160. ' 



Papilio Cinyra, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 238, f. C (1782), $ . 



Phcedra terricola, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 124 (1829). 



Male. Upperside glossy cupreous-red : forewing witli a narrow black costal and 

 exterior marginal band, the inner border of wMch is jagged on the veins and acute at 

 the apex : hindwing with a black costal border and very narrow marginal band ; 

 abdominal border cupreous-brown. Body cupreous-brown, thorax and head tinged 

 with olive-brown. Underside glossy-white, with a very faintly indicated dusky 

 lunular transverse discal fascia, and a marginal row of more distinct black speckles. 

 Female. Upperside dark brown : forewing with a broad white medial discal patch : 

 hindwing with a nari'ow white irregular curved upper discal band. Cilia white. 

 Underside as in male. Legs with red band above ; palpi black above ; antennae 

 black, tipped with red. 



Expanse If inch. 



" Eastern Province between Kandy and Trincomalee in forest land. Taken in 

 August whilst settling on the ground" [Hutchison). 

 "Kandy. Rather scarce " (IFacZe). 



Genus CYANIRIS. 



Cyaniris, Dalman, Vetensk. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. 63, 94 (1816). 



Forewing elongated, triangular ; exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, 

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

 subcostal branch emitted at neai-ly one-half before end of the cell, free from costal ; 

 second at one-third, the third at about one-eighth before end of the cell, fourth at one- 

 half from the third and terminating at the apex, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellulars 

 slightly concave, radial from their middle; cell long, somewhat narrow, extending to 

 more than half the wins: ; middle median branch emitted about one-seventh before 

 end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian slightly recurved : 

 hindwing oval, apex very convex ; costal vein curved at the base, extending to apex ; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell ; upper discocellular 

 shortest, outwardly oblique, lower straight, erect, radial from their middle ;' cell 

 rather short; middle median branch emitted from immediately before end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third before the end; submedian and internal veins straight. Body 



