348 LYC^NID^. 
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 mUlim. 
Occurs at Moupin, Western China, in June, and also at Cliang-yaug in 
Central China ; but it is apparently a scarce species, as my collectors only 
obtained one specimen of each sex. 
Mr. de Nic^ville {I. c.) says : — "J/, ameria is very variable in the extent of 
the purple coloration of the female on the upperside. Calcutta specimens 
have about one thii'd 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. jy. ameria is a rare species, -with a wide range, occurring in the 
plains of Bengal, in Assam, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mergui, Perak, 
and Hainan." 
Genus CURETIS. 
Curetif, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 102 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 73 (1881) ; 
Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 201 (1884) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 284 (1890). 
Phcedra, Ilorsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 123 (1829). 
Amps, Boisd. Spec. Gen. i. pi. xxiii. fig. 1 (1836) ; Westwood, Geu. Diurn. Lep. p. 473 
(1852). 
" Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin strongly arched at base, and then almost obliquely 
straight to apex, which is either subacute or prominently and falcatcly acute ; outer margin 
concavely 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 fourth before end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating about midway between 
end of cell and apex of wing. 
" Posterior wings rounded, the anal angle more acute in the male than in the female ; subcostal 
nervules bifurcating near end of cell. 
" Eyes hairy. 
" Palpi porrect, clothed with tine adpressed scales ; apical joint slender, longer in the female than 
in the male. 
" Antennce short, gradually thickened into a long apical club. 
" Le(js short, thick, and densely clothed 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 five-jointed, with two small apical claws." {Distant, I. c.) 
Curetis angulata. 
Curetis aiiyuluta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 522, pi. xlviii. fig. 2. 
'' Mcde. From typical C. buUs (Doublcday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. Ixxv.) this difl'ers in 
