NYMPHALIN^. (Gronp XYUPMAZiyA.) 87 



(Capt. A. M. Lang, MS. Notes). It is " very rare in Masuri, a few hybernated 

 specimens make their appearance in February. In March and April a fresh brood 

 appears, which frequents the Rhododendron flowers. It occurs also at Nag Tiba, 

 8000 feet elevation, in May. The larva feeds on Celtis australis, N. 0. Urticaceas, 

 and on a wild willow" (P. W. Mackinnon, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1898, 375). The 

 Rev. J. H. Hocking " found the larva on willow on March 30th, in the Kangra 

 district. Fed up April 6th ; in pupa state from April 16th to 24tLi. Imago emerged 

 on May 9th" (P. Z. S. 1882, 240). 



Genus AGLAIS. 



Aglais, Dalmann, Vetensk. Acad. Handl. xxxvii. pp. 66, 64 (1816). Scndder, Syst. Rev. Amer. Butt. 



p. 16 (1872); Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 413 (1889). 

 Vanessa (part), Auctorum. 



Im.-^go. — "Wings broad. Male. Foreving triangular; costa much arched fi-om 

 the base, exterior margin slightly oblique, scalloped, and obtusely angled below the 

 apex ; posterior margin straight ; costal vein extending to half the margin ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second branch close 

 before the end ; upper discocellular short, middle three times the length of upper, 

 concave, lower discocellular slender, straight. Hindwing short, triangular ; exterior 

 margin obliquely convex, scalloped, with a projecting angle at end of upper median 

 veinlet ; precostal vein straight ; discocellulars outwardly oblique ; cell broad, closed. 

 Body stout, palpi densely clothed with fine long and shorter hairs throughout ; fore 

 tibiae and tarsi, in the male, rather tliickly clothed with uniformly fine longish silky 

 hairs; femora beneatb the same; foretibiEe and tarsi, in the /e//irt/e, laxly clothed 

 with uniformly fine longish silky hair.«, tarsal joints quite apical, the spines slender ; 

 antennae with a short stout cylindrical club ; eyes hairy. 



L.\RVA. — Head rather flat in front, slightly indented at vertex, studded with 

 bristly-points and hairs. Third to last segment armed with a dorsal and three 

 lateral rows of branched-spines. 



Pupa. — Head-piece pointed and bifid ; thorax raised to a central angular ridge ; 

 abdominal segments with a dorsal and a lateral row of blunt tubercles. 



Type. — A. Urtic*. 



AGLAIS KASCHMIRENSIS (Plate 316, fig. 3, 3a, cj ? ). 



Vanessa Caschmirensis, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 442, pi. xi. fig. 3, 4 (1841). Moore, 

 Catal. Lap. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 137 (1857). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc.. ii. p. 233 (1886). 



Vanessa Kaschmirensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 240. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 p. 121. 



