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the fore wing being pointed and acuminated at the apex ; the red area is paler and broader, 
extending to the posterior margin towards the base ; the dentate mark at the end of the cell 
is also prominent. On the hind wing the exterior margin is much produced to an angle in 
the middle, and the anal end more produced ; the red area is also paler, and extends from the 
costal edge broadlj- over the disc, leaving only an exterior marginal blackish band and a 
suffused medial basal area. 
" Female. With similar outline of wings, and broad white discal areas. Expanse 1| inch. 
" X.W. Himalayas." {Moore, I. e.) 
I have only one example of each sex ; these were taken in the Icliang Gorge 
in September. The male agrees very well with Moore's figure of angulata. 
Elwes (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 372) seems to regard angulata, 
dentata, and discalis, Moore, as forms of C. bulis, and in this I am inclined 
to think that he is probably correct. 
In the MoUer collection there are thirty specimens of Curctis which have 
been arranged in series according to the angulation of the wings and the 
amount of red colour on upper surface of the males and of bluish white in 
the females. Mr. de Niceville considers all these to be referable to one 
variable species, i. e. C. bulis. 
Curetis acuta. 
Curetis acuta, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xs. p. 50 (187~) ; Pryer, Rliop. 
Nilion. p. 1], pi. iv. figs. 1, 2 (1887). 
Curetis truncata, Moore, 1. c. p. 51 (1877). 
" Xcarest to C. hulis, Bd. ; differs in both sexes in the acute prolongation of the apical angle, and 
obliquity of the outer margin, of the fore wing; darker colour; the golden (in the male) and 
white (in the female) portion of both wings less prominent, being confined to a smaller space 
on the middle of the wing. Expanse 2 inches. 
" Shanghai." (Moore, 1. c.) 
Tar. truncata, Moore. " Female. Brown ; fore wing indistinctly paler towards the base : hind 
wing whitish narrowly on anterior margin and slightly at the apex. Underside less promi- 
nently marked than in C. acuta. Expanse 1§ inoh. 
" Shanghai." {Moore, 7. c.) 
In this species the angulation of the wing is subject to considerable varia- 
tion, and I cannot find any specific difference between C. acuta and the insect 
which Mr. Moore has described as truncata. 
Occurs in some numbers at Chia-ting-fu and Omei-shau in Western China, 
also at Chang-yang and Kiukiang, and is common in the mountains of 
Central Japan. 
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