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of narrow lunular lines ; a marginal series of narrow lunules, of 

 which the third from the angle is metallic green. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. N. India. In Coll. P. Moore. 



Symbrenthia niphanda. 



Male and female. Upperside dark fuliginous brown : fore win°- 

 with a testaceous elongated discoidal streak, an oblique subapical 

 irregular streak, a small apical lunule, a broad band extending 

 obliquely from near posterior angle to abdominal margin of the hind 

 wing, below which band is a submarginal lunular band. Underside 

 pale testaceous yellow : fore wing tessellated with black along base 

 of costa, at the apex, obliquely from middle of outer margin, and 

 across the base of the hind wing, broadly from lower part of abdomi- 

 nal margin, and then decreasing upward towards the angle, beneath 

 which is a series of broad metallic-green lunules with black double 

 borders ; outside these is a marginal band, the middle portion bein°- 

 metallic green. The spaces representing the streaks and bands of 

 the upperside are very pale and glossy on the underside. 



Expanse, o* li 2 2| inches. 



Hab. Sikkim Himalayas. In Coll. P. Moore. 



Genus Vanessa, Fab. 

 Vanessa rizana. 



Male. Differs from V. cashmirensis in being a smaller and more 

 compact insect, and having the fore wing less produced at the apex ; 

 markings and colours disposed as in that species, but more clearly 

 denned and the colours much brighter : fore wing with the red 

 colour near the base descending to near the submedian vein, the pos- 

 terior black spot being quadrate, well denned, and broadly bordered 

 outward with clear yellow, this colour also bordering the two upper 

 discal spots ; submarginal black border narrow : hind wing with the 

 black base bordered outwardly by clear yellow ; the submarginal row 

 of dentate blue-centred black lunules being without the broad inner 

 dusky border. Underside darker than in V. cashmirensis ; markings 

 similar. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



Hab. Cheeni (9000 feet), Middle Kunawur, N.W. Himalaya 

 (Capt. Beckett). In Coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Grapta, Kirby. 

 Grapta agnictjla. 



Male and female. Upperside bright fulvous red ; both wings with 

 prominent black markings disposed as in Cashmere specimens of 

 G. c-album, excepting that in the fore wing the basal spot within the 

 cell is here broken up into two well-separated spots, and the mar- 

 ginal band in the male is nearly obsolete at the apex. Female with 

 a broader marginal blackish-grey band, the band on the fore wing 

 bordered by an inner row of yellowish spots, and that on the hind 



