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have no doubt as to their identity, It is quite (specifically or racially) distinct from C. thttys, 

 Dm., and not synonymic with that species, as stated by Mr. Kirby* and by Mr. Moore, t 



& Curetis felderi, j n. *p. (Tab. XXIV. , fig. 3 <? ; Tab. XXII., fi& 26 s .) 



Male. Wings less angular than in the preceding species, the apex of the anterior wing and the anal 

 m\<s\v of tin posterior win^ more rounded and loss produced. Colour above as in preceding species; 

 anterior wings with the black area smaller, the apical portion more regularly concave interiorly, and 

 narrower at (mter an?!**; posterior wings with the outer black margin narrower. Wings beneath pearly 

 white; markings as in preceding species, but the fascia? darker and more continuous, the apex of the 

 anterior wings also broadly infuscated, 



Female, Wings above pale orange-yellow ; anterior wings with the costal margin, the apes, outer 

 margin, and outer half of inner margin broadly dark brown; posterior wings wholly dark brown, with the 

 exception of a large discal orange-yellow patch extending from base of upper median uervule to apex of wing. 

 Wings beneath as in the male, but with the fascia darker, broader, and more regularly curved and continuous* 

 Body above dark brown j sternum and legs greyish white, tibiie and tarsi anmilated with brown ; palpi 

 greyish white, their apices dark brown. 



Exp. wings, $ and 2 , 40 to 45 millim. 



Hats. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Pist.) ; Sungei Ujong (Godfery and Durnford^ ; 

 Singapore (Kerr). 



This species is allied to <?, insutaris, Horsf. (with the type of which in the Horstield 

 collection I have carefully compared it§), hut by the under surface, in particular, it is 

 rendered very distinct* 



4, Curetis sperthis. (Tab. XXII., fig. 27 5 .) 



Anopg tjxrthit, Fcldor, Boise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 222 (1865) ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Zool. vol. 1. p. 546, 

 n. 2 (1877). 



Female. Wings above dark chocolate-brown ; a large discal streak on anterior wings, occupying 

 nearly all the lower half of cell, and deflected and covering more than half of the median nervules, 

 .■! .i ; •■<•:!! patch on posterior win'.'s. whit-]] is much waved and siniuttcd and intends fpnn in at ;\\»-x 

 to upper median nervule, orange-yellow. Win^s beneath pearly grey, with a small funcous streak near 

 end of eel I a of both wings, a waved fuscous linear fascia crossing both wings a little beyond middle, 

 followed by a wider and more obscure fascia and a sulunarginal series of dark fuscous linear spots. Body 

 both above and beneath more or less concolorous with wings. Palpi pearly grey, with their upper surface 

 and apex fuscous. Legs pearly grey, more or less annul ated with fuscous. 



Male. A specimen of this sex in the British Museum resembles the female, but has the pale discal 

 markings on the upper surface of the wings more reddish in hue, and the discal patch on the posterior 

 wings larger in size. 



Exp. winga, 41 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll Dist.) ; Malacca (Castehiau— coll. Feld. ; 

 Pinwill— Brit. Mus.). 



Syu. Cut. Diurn, Lopid. p. 418, n.I. t Lepid. Ceylon, vol. u p. 74. 



; Named after C. and R. Folder, whose memoir, 14 Lepidoptrru nova in Peninsula Malaykn Collfcctti " (Wien. Ent. Mon. 

 iv. 18UO) inuv ho considered as tho first real contribution to a knowledge of thin Ehopalocerons fanna. 



S This iiiipiirlrmt cn\iuciit»n of t>r. HcirHU'ld, contain im* so many types, i* mi longer kept in its separate condition rvl the 

 Briii.su Musi-i.ua. luit is u»w [[icm-purm^d with the? ^nprul collection—a matter of fl*mie MKifflt — until nn account is published 

 under what Roncru the species arc placed, and which BpecieR arc mink as synonyms of others. 



