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with violet towards the base, and clouded with obscure purplish violet over the rest of the 

 wing ; several pale but ill-defined transverse lines. 

 Expanse 40 millim. 



Occurs at Moiipin, Western China, in June, and also at Chang-yang in 

 Central China ; but it is apparently a scarce species, as my collectors only 

 obtained one specimen of each sex. 



Mr. de Niceville [l. c.) says : — " Jtf. ameria is very variable in the extent of 

 the purple coloration of the female on the upperside, Calcutta specimens 

 have about one third less purple than those from the Malay Peninsula, the 

 purple not reaching the costa of the fore wing. The female appears to be 

 far more often met with than the male, of which sex I have seen two speci- 

 mens only. M. ameria is a rare species, with a vdde range, occurring in the 

 plains of Bengal, in Assam, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mergui, Perak, 

 and Hainan." 



Genus CURETIS. 



Curdu, Hubn. Verz. bck. Schmett. p. 102 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 73 (1881) ; 



Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 201 (1881) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 284 (1890). 

 Phadra, Horsfield, Cat. Lcp. E. I. C. p. 123 (1829). 



Amps, Boisd. Spec. Gen. i. pi. xxiii. fig. 1 (183G) ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 473 

 (1852). 



" Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin strongly arched at base, and then almost obliquely 

 straight to apex, wliich is either subacute or prominently and falcatcly acute ; outer margin 

 concavcly sinuate where the apex is produced ; inner margin concavely sinuate in the male, 

 obscurely so in the female ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about one third before end of 

 cell, second at one fourtli before end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating about midway between 

 end of ctll and apex of wing. 



" Posterior wings rounded, the anal angle more acute in the male than in the female ; subcostal 



ner\'ules bifurcating near end of cell. 

 " J'ji/es hairy. 



" Paljii porrect, clothed with tine adpressed scales ; apical joint slender, longer in the female than 

 in the male. 



" Anlciiivn short, gradually thickened into a long apical club. 



" Letjs short, thick, and densely clotlied with scales ; anterior tarsus of the male consisting of a 

 single joint, with an obtuse apical claw, and with some fine spines beneath ; anterior tarsus 

 of the female fivc-jointed, with two small Jijucal claws." (Distant, I. c.) 



Curetis angulata. 



Curclis aiiijulttla, .Moore, I'roe. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1883, p. 522, pi. xlviii. fig. 2. 

 Mule. Trom typical C. hulia (I)oublcdny and llewilson, (Jen. Diurn. Lep.. pi. Ixxv.) this differs in 



