934 
CURETIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
nisias. 
palawanica. 
aurantiacci. 
bar sine, 
galinthias. 
dohertyi. 
mcnestratus. 
eberalda. 
georgiana. 
lucifuga. 
cos. 
insular is. 
ccla. 
baweana. 
kiritana. 
celebensis. 
venata. 
egena. 
solita. 
shortlandi- 
ca. 
nesophila. 
carnotina. 
obsoleta. 
izabella. 
Mr., from Sylhet is very much larger (expanse up to 2 inches), and the forewing and hindwing show a 
broader black distal margin. — nisias Fruhst. (= aesopus List. nee. F.) is the thetis from Malacca; broadly 
margined with black, the dark margin proximally irregularly defined; the $ only differs from arcuata (162 b) 
by the white discal spot of the forewing extending somewhat more to the base of the wing and crossing the 
lower cell-wall with very narrow small stripes *). — palawanica Stgr., from Palawan, already forms a transition 
to the Philippine form aurantiaca Fruhst. (162 e). p miniate instead of vermilion, the margin only in the apical 
part bordered with black. $ in the forewing with a faint light red longitudinal patch, in the hindwing with 
a minute red cloud round the cell-end. — barsine Fldr. (162 f). $ darker, almost scarlet, the broader marginal 
band at the ends of the veins somewhat proximally dentate. $ with white discal spots. Amboina. —- galin¬ 
thias Fruhst. (= thetys Stgr. pt.) (162 b). These are forms figured as „thetis“ by Staudinger in his Exot. 
Butterflies. above hemochrome with rather broad black margins of the wings, $ with large white discal spots, 
beneath both sexes of a pure silvery white. Waigeu. —- dohertyi the of which Frghstorfer sent us to be 
figured, from Macassar, by the dark transverse bands beneath approaches the eos Fob. (162 c!) being above 
blackish-brown, which likewise originates from Celebes, but the £ is quite on the contrary above of a bright 
vermilion, similar to jolona, but with very prominent black ends of the veins. But the anal angle of the hind¬ 
wing in this form is so pointed that we are inclined to place it rather to the pseudoinsularis- group (comp, 
p. 935). —- menestratus Fruhst. Distal band of the forewing in the broader than in the preceding, base of 
hindwing as far as the centre of the iving dusted with dark. In the $ the white discal spot of the forewing, 
which is almond-shaped in galinthias -$, is said to be above notched; in the hindwing the white spot is more 
distant from the margin. New Guinea. — eberalda Frulist., Key Islands; forewing with a very narrow black 
margin. According to Gr.-Smith also in the Am Islands. — georgiana Fbb. is another form from the Salo¬ 
mons ; Druce in his list does not state any Curetis from these islands, but Ribbe described it from the Island 
of Rubiana; it is, moreover, very much like the New Guinea form. — Hereto may also belong the entirely 
blackened form lucifuga Fruhst. (162 e) flying in Formosa. Here the red of the <$ is on the forewing entirely 
covered with blackish-grey, so that it is only yet noticeable as a dull brown hue in the disc; in the hindwing 
it fills up the distal part of the wing as a brown diffuse spot. — eos Fruhst. i. 1. (162 d) neither exhibits 
this discal brightening anymore and is quite uni-coloured blackish-brown above. — Egg shaped like a cake, 
whitish, coarsely netted hexagonally. Adult larva almost 1 inch long, green, the head being hidden beneath 
the thoracal segments is ochreous-yellow, across the dorsum a dark line and at the sides of the thorax yellowish- 
green oblique patches, on the dorsum a whitish saddle-spot. The verticil-organ on the 12th ring has been described 
in Vol. I (p. 276). It lives on Denis scandens or Heynea trijuga; the pupa yields the imago already after 3 
or 4 days. The imagines do not fly very swiftly in a somewhat flapping flight, somewhat like Zephyrus 
betulae, the silvery white under surface sometimes brightly flashing up; they frequently rest, with their wings 
closed, on the underside of leaves on higher twigs. 
C. insularis Horsf. (162 b). This species in the male extraordinarily resembles certain forms of thetis, 
but the whole anal part of the red hindwing is dusted with dark brown. The typical form is from Java and 
Bali; its $ has the discal spots above similarly sized and shaped as thetis arcuata, but of an intensely golden 
yellow colour. — eda Fruhst. is considered to be the dry season form of it. The distal darkening at the proximal 
margin of the hindwing sometimes extends as far as the centre of the wing towards the base. The $$ of eda 
and insularis have a very large honey-coloured discal spot of the forewing, that of the hindwing extends from 
the lower median vein to about 2 to 3 mm before the margin at its apical part. — In baweana Fruhst. which 
is besides larger the discal spot in the hindwing is straight, more pointed, not curved; from Bawean. — kiritana 
Doh. black, the red area scarcely extends beyond the middle of the median, the posterior margin being dark. 
On the hindwing the cell-end and disk is red or reddish from the subcostal to about the lower median, the costal 
margin and posterior margin very broad, the distal margin narrower black. Sumba, Sumbawa, rare; one of 
the darkest forms. — celebensis Fldr. (162 f). The discal spots of the $ are very dark reddish-yellow; the longi¬ 
tudinal patch in the forewing is narrow, the small cloud round the cell-end of the hindwing interrupted. South 
Celebes. — In venata Fruhst. (162 g) from North Celebes the <$<$ exhibit in the hindwing and the distal part 
of the forewing black veins, particularly the transverse vein in the forewing being conspicuously black. The 
$ is quite black except an extinct dull ochreous central patch. -— egena Fldr. (162 f) from Halmaheira has above 
a quite blackish-brown $ in which only a somewhat less deep dark tint behind the cell-end of the forewing 
indicates the place where the discal patch is situate in venata. — solita Btlr. (162 g) has this patch yet distinct, 
golden yellow and sharply defined; from New Pomerania. — shortlandica Fbb. is denominated from its habitat, 
the Shortlands Islands; in nesophila Fldr. (162 b, c) the has a very concavely indented distal margin of the 
forewing and a broad black costal margin of the forewing; the hindwing is almost entirely covered with brown 
except a purely vermilion place between the cell-end and the margin. In the $ the discal spots are red, almost 
as glaring-red as in the <J, the spot of the hindwing is a horizontal crescent. From Luzon. -—- carnotina (= taga- 
lica Smp .) from the Camotes Islands has in the female more yellow and somewhat larger spots; otherwise like 
the preceding. — obsoleta Fldr. is perhaps the rainy season form, whilst izabella Fruhst. is the dry season form. 
In the latter the forewing has only a length of 16 mm, that of the $ of 18 to 19 mm; the £ resembles 
nesophila, but the apical black extends quite near to the cell-wall and also accompanies the transverse vein, 
the under surface being whitish, covered with grey. In the $ the yellow discal spot is distally broad and extends as 
*) Fruhstorfeb does not supply a description, but only substantiates his new name with the reference: ,,For Distant's 
fig. 14, t. 14“. — This is misprinted, for he can only mean the figure on t. 44. 
