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A. E. WILEMAN : 



This species is quite different to ArJiopala turbala, Butler, which 

 is. taken in Japan, and figured by Piyer in Rhop. Nihon. pi. ii, fig. 

 16, (1886) and I am unable to identify it. Only one ArJiopala, viz. 

 A. japouica, Murray, is mentioned by Miyake in his " Catalogue of 

 Formosan Butterflies " as being taken in Formosa, and my species 

 does not agree with japouica. 



Expanse. 49 millimetres. 



32. Curetis acuta, Moore. 



Var. brunnea, var. nov. 

 Curciis acuta, Moore, Ann and Mag. Nat. Hist. (./) xx, p. 50 (r8jy) ; 

 id. Leech, Butt. China, Japan, Corea, p. 34Q, (1892-çj). 

 Curetis t rancata, Moore, I.e., p. jz, (1877). 



Curetis dentata, Moore, Kershaw, Butt. Hongkong, p. jy, pi. 

 7>iii, figs. 8 3, ç I, errata, for C. dentata, Moore, read C. acuta 

 Moore. 



Collection Number 162. Five male specimens; Juippun, Horisha 

 (Chinese name, Polisia), June 18, 1908. 



These specimens are almost entirely of a unicolorous brown 

 the red area so conspicuous in acuta being entirely absent on the 

 forewings and only faintly perceptible on the hindwings, more so in 

 one specimen than in the others. They are, probably, varieties of 

 C. acuta, Moore, which has been recorded from Formosa by Miyake 

 in his "Catalogue of Formosan Butterflies," No. 118, and which is 

 also in my collection. 



It should be here mentioned that de Nicéville has separated, (in 

 Journal Bombay N. H. Soc. Vol. XIV, No. 2, p. 248, No. 11, (1901), 

 the species of the genus Curetis occurring in Japan, also figured by 

 Pryer (Rhop. Nihon, p. 11, No. 26, pl. IV. figs, 1 a I, lb?, (1887),) 

 and has named it Curetis pai-acuta. De Nicéville is also of opinion that 

 C. truncata, Moore and C. angulata, Moore, (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 

 j). 522, pi. 48, fig. 2, 1883), arc synonymous with C. acuta, Moore. 



