88 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Vanessa Kashmeriemis, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 403. 



Vanessa Flacilla, Doubleday MS., in Gray's Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 11 (1846). 



Imago. — Male and female. Forewing with the ground-colour of the cell and discal 

 area rich chestnut-red ; base of the costa with short black and olivescent-ochreous 

 strigse; base of the cell and posterior margin densely covered with olivescent- 

 ochreous scales ; a black quadrate bar across middle of the cell, then a pale yellow 

 bar, then another much broader black bar from the costal to upper median, with 

 another pale yellow bar beyond it, and then again a third broad black bar with a 

 small bluish-white costal spot placed outwardly beyond it ; within the discal area are 

 two rounded black superposed spots between the median interspaces, the lower one 

 being the largest, and below which is an ill-defined narrow streak formed by blackish 

 scales ; a larger but more irregular and diffused black spot placed inwardly between 

 the lower median and submedian, and having a narrow diffused pale yellow or 

 whitish patch between it and the outer streak ; outer margin broadly greyish- 

 fuliginous traversed by a medial blacker luuular fascia and two outer paler lines. 

 Bindwing with the basal two-thirds black, densely irrorated basally with olivescent- 

 ochreous scales and numerously covered with similar coloured or reddish hairs ; a 

 broad outer-discal chestnut-red band with its inner edge irregular and its outer edge 

 even, and its costal end diffusedly-speckled with pale yellow or whitish scales ; outer 

 margin broadly greyish-fuliginous, traversed by a medial row of prominent deep 

 black dentate-lunules with blue-speckled centres, and two outer marginal paler lines ; 

 abdominal margin greyish-fuliginous. Underside ochreous-brown, densely covered 

 with slender short black strigge ; basal two-thirds clouded with dark brown and out- 

 wardly defined by an irregular zigzag black line, which is most distinct on the hind- 

 wing ; cells of both wings crossed by two pairs of sinuous black lines centred with 

 dull dark bluish-grey; outer margins traversed by a continuous row of black-speckled 

 lunulas with dull bluish-grey centres. Body and palpi above dark olivescent-brown, 

 beneath and legs olivescent-grey ; antennee black above and articulated with white, 

 shaft beneath and tip ochreous-red. 



Expanse, c? 2 to2i^o, ? "^ro^o 2^^ inches. 



Larva. — Head subquadrate, slightly hairy, vertex indented in the middle, fore- 

 head on each side with several strong short sharp spines each ending in a fine hair ; 

 face and cheeks minutely tuberculated ; segments slightly hairy, armed with a dorsal 

 and three lateral rows of long sharp brauched-spines. Head black ; spines blackish, 

 segments dark pui^purescent-black, almost black, paler beneath; with two dorsal 

 and two sublateral slender yellow maculated lines, the subdorsal and sublateral inter- 

 areas being numerously covered with minute yellow spots. (Described from pi-e- 

 served specimen in Rev. J. H. Hocking's Coll.) 



Pupa. — Not known. 



