NJMPHALIX.^. (Gvonp yY.vPBALryA.) 9l 



Expanse, c? 1 ^^ to 2, ? 2 ^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Northern Himalayas. 



Distribution. — The type specimens were taken at Gogra, Changchenmo, at 

 15,000 feet elevation, in Ladak, and at the Karatagh Lake, on snow, 16,890 feet 

 elevation, in Yarkund, by the late Dr. F. Stoliczka, during the Indian Government 

 Mission to Yarkund in 1873. In Mr. J. H. Leech's collection are specimens of both 

 sexes from the Kardong Pass, 14,000 feet, in Ladak, taken in August ; from the 

 Digha Pass, 15,000 feet, taken in June, and from the Karakorum, 18,000, taken in 

 July by Capt. McArthur. Examples are in the British Museum from W. Tibet, 

 taken by Capt. Colomb. Mr. P. W. Mackinnon says of it, " Very rare, specimens 

 only obtained on the Nilang Pass, 15,000 feet elevation, in July " (Journ. Bombay 

 N. H. Soc. 1898, 375). Mr. W. Doherty records it from " near Kalapani, Nepalese 

 Tibet, at 14,000 feet elevation, and near Hindi, Chinese Tibet, 15,000 feet elevation. 

 The prehensores are quite different from those of Kaschmlrensis " (J. As. Soc. Bang. 

 1886, 122). Mr. H. J. Elwes records it from the *' Eastern frontier in Chumbi or 

 Bhotan" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 363). In the " Sikkim Gazetteer," 1894, 145, it is 

 recorded by Mr. L. de Nici^ville as having been " obtained by native collectors 

 only, probably on the other side of the Passes, in Tibet." 



China and Japan Species. — Aglais Gonnexa (Vanessa Connexa, Butler, P. Z. S. 

 1881, p. 851. Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 258 (1893). Ilahitat. Japan.— Agl a is 

 Chinensis (Vanessa Chinensis, Leech, Butt. China, etc., p. 258, pi. 25, fig. 1, ? (1893). 

 Habitat. W. China. 



Genus KANISKA. 



Imago.: — Wings rather short and broad. Male. Foreiving triangular; costa 

 much arched from near the base ; apex obtusely pointed ; exterior margin slightly 

 oblique, scalloped, angulated outward below the apex and obtusely angled at end 

 of lower median veinlet ; costal vein extending to nearly two-thirds the margin ; first 

 and second subcostal bi-anches emitted before end of cell ; upper discocellular short, 

 middle discocellular concave, lower very oblique and slender. Hinduiug triangular ; 

 anterior margin broadly lobate at the base and thence oblique to the end ; exterior 

 margin obliquely convex, scalloped, very slightly excavated below the apex, and with 

 a broad caudate angle at end of upper median veinlet ; anal angle lobate ; precostal 

 vein bent outward near end ; costal vein extending to apex ; discocellulars outwardly 

 oblique, lower slender. Body very robust ; palpi ascending to level of vertex, flattened 

 at the sides and beneath, thickly clothed with short coarse hairy-scales, with a dense 

 ridge of longer hairy-scales on upper edge of second and third joint, edges beneath 

 also hairy. Fore tibise and tarsi, in male, densely clothed with short hairy-scales 



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