NYMPHALIN^. (Group xTUPnALiyA.) 45 



bent inward ; cell open. Hindioing broadly ovate, short ; anterior margin much 

 arched, exterior margin convex and scalloped ; precostal vein bifid ; costal vein 

 ending at fully one-third before the apex. Bodij slender ; palpi very slender ; eyes 

 naked. TrPE. R. gracilis. — Easalia gracilis (Athyma gracilis, Kirsch, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1885, p. 276, pi. 19, fig. 4). Syn. Neptis Dohertyi, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. 

 ii. 1895, p. 79. Habitat. Tenimber, Timor Laut. 



Group V. NYMPHALINA. 



Hamadri/ades, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806). 



Nymphalides (part), Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 16 (1840). 



VanessldcE, Duponchel, Catal. Mt-th. Lep. Eur. p. 6 (1844). 



Vanessidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 11 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. p. 21 (1857). 



Scudder, Butt. E. U. S, p. 306 (1889). 

 Vanessides, Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 36 (1862). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 69 (1869). 

 Nymphalina (part), Herr. Schoeff. Prod. Syst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Rhop. Maloy. p. 83 



(1882). 

 Nymphalides (part), Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 46 (1869). 

 Biademoi (part), Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 98 (1869). 

 Nymphalida' (part), Lang, Rhop. Eur. p. 159 (1884). 



Kallimce et Apaturince, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pp. 109, 121. 

 Nymplialidce (Vanessa group, part), Staudinger and Schiitz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 122 (1887). 

 Nymphalina, Moore, Lep. Indica, ii. p. 225 (1895). 



Chaeacters of the Group NrjiPHAiiXA.* 



Imago. — Forewings elongately triangular, or triangular ; apex obtusely angled 

 or rounded, in some produced to a more or less distinct point ; exterior margin 

 either more or less slightly scalloped and with a more or less prominent outward 

 angle below the apex and a lesser angle at the lower median veinlet, or the entire 

 margin sliglitly but obtusely scalloped, or more or less even. Hindwings short, 

 obovate, or somewhat quadrate, the exterior margin either more or less slightly 

 scalloped, or nearly even, or, in some the apex is slightly excised, and with a short 

 broad caudate angle at end of the upper median veinlet ; or, in some the wing is 

 triangular, with the exterior margin nearly or quite even, and the anal angle pro- 

 duced into a lobate tail. 



Larva. — Head mostly very slightly cleft, in some surmounted with two minute 

 tuberculous-spines or very short stellate-spines, or armed with two long erect 

 branched-spines or two fleshy-spines. Body armed with longitudinal series of 

 branched-spines, or with a single dorsal fleshy-spine on sixth and twelfth segment. 



* See Note in Lep. Indica, vol. ii. p. 226. 



