1. Curetis malayica. (Tab. XXIL, fig, 28 <? .) 



Amps M<(taijku, Feldor. Reise Nov, Lep* ii. p. 221, t. 28, f. 18 (1865); Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zoo\. 

 vol. i. p. 54G. no. 1 <IH77;. 



Not having received this species myself from the Malay Peninsula, I have followed my 

 previous course of giving a copy of both Felder's diagnosis and figure. 



41 , Abo supra cupreo-rutilre, antic® limbo costali, apud vcnulam transvorsam dentom Bubtilem 

 einittente, nigro-fusco, trianpuhim sat latum apicaletn intua excieum et hoc in triangnluni analem ni^ro- 

 fuseutn, in niarginem internum obscurioreui so perdentem transeunte, posticra vittula juxta truncura 

 subcostalem, atomaria marginequ.© cxterno, postice latiore et atomario nigro-fuscis, dhnidio apicali cost© 

 fusco, regione anah obscuriore." 



" Ala? subtus suh;tr^nt«jo-ulba\ nigro puuctulatas striga externa undulata interrupte fracta ex atomis 

 nigris, altera fsubmarginali obsoleta, puuetia nigris intramarginalibus, antics inaculis tribus minutis nigris 

 subcostalibus." 



Exp. wings,* -15 millirn. 



Hab.— Burma (coll. Dist.) — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Com. de Castelnau — coll. Felder; Pinwill — 



Brit. Mus). 



The female of this species has probably the ground colour white, instead of red, as obtains 

 in the female sex of C. hulis and C, nsopus. 



2. Curetis aesopus. (Tab* XXIV., fig, 12 j.) 



VapVfa /Empiu, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 12.1, n. 5t>5 HTBli; Mailt. Ins. p. UK u. 719 (1787); But. Syst. iii. 



p. 807, u. 1C4 (17»8). 

 A tiops K*aptts t Butl. Cat!. Fabr. Lopid, p + ICO, n. 1 (I860). 



Male. Wings above closely resembling those of C mahuflca t but the anterior wings having the black 

 an ti more reduced, and not widened at outer angle nor extending along inner margin. Wings beneath 

 pearly-white; anterior wings witb a pale bluish oblique lunulated fascia, outwardly and narrowly margined 

 with blackish, commencing at upper discoidal uervule, and a marginal Beries of small black spots preceded by 

 an obscure pale bluish lmuihti>d fascia ; posterior wings with a short oblique pale bluish fascia commencing 

 on costal nervure a little before apex; eome short and similar indistinct fasciae on disk and a marginal 

 series of black spots preceded by a pale bluish lunulated fascia as on anterior wings. Body above fuscous ; 

 beneath with the sternum and legs greyish white, the femora and tibia? more or leas annulated with 

 brownish ; abdomen pale brownish ; palpi greyish white, with their apices black. 



Female. This is the sex of the typical specimen t contained in the Banksiau Collection in the 

 British Museum, and is thus described : — 



" Alis integemmis supra fuscis, macula alba ; subtus albis immaeulatis ; habitat in India oriental!." 



Exp. wings, 40 millim. 



Hah.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colL Dist.). 



Although I have not received the female from the Malay Peninsula, I have carefully 

 compared the male specimen here figured with the female type of the Fabrieian species, and 



* Folricr'a figure— In all my K \ven inensurnrmmts ilio oxpanno is calculated from tip to tip of long. Mr. Butler (Cist. 

 Kiit. vol. hi. p. 08 1 lins rueiiuly iirgucd Unit -*fnirUj" u KtioiiTfl \u> fr.nn tip i.f wing to ccintn. of thorax, doqlM." 



J I refer only to the typo, aud not tn the Moiilmein speciinunB enumerated as belunging to the snecics by Mr. Butler 

 (Cat. Fabr. Lcpid. p. 100, n. 1 (1869). 1 J 



