92 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



above aud laterally with very fine long silky-outspread liairs; femur with shorter 

 hairs beneath. Fore tibia?, in female, clothed less thickly with short hairy-scales 

 above and laterally with fewer and shorter fine hairs, tarsus more roughly scaly and 

 with a few short fine hairs only, terminal joints quite apical, their lateral spines 

 short, but stout. Antennce with a stout cylindrical club. Byes hairy. 



Larva. — [Haronica]. Somewhat robust ; segments armed with longitudinal 

 rows of branched-spines ; anal segment slightly humped. 



Pupa. — Robust ; abdominal segments with two dorsal rows of small pointed 

 tubercles ; thorax angular; head-piece produced aud bifid. 



Type. — K. Canace. 



XoTE.— The shape of the wings in this genus is similar to that of Polygonia, as 

 is also the character and position of the markings on the underside, the markings of 

 the upperside ai'e, however, very different from those in Polygonia. 



KANISKA CANACE (Plate 315, fig. 1, la, (J ? ). 



Papilio Canace, Johanssen, Amfen. Acad. vi. p. 406 (1764). Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. ed. p. 779 (1767). 

 Vanessa Canace, de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 231 (1886). Mackinnon, Journ. Bombay Xat. 



Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 375. 

 Nytnphalis Canace, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. App. p. 648 (1871). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich deep blue-black, somewhat glossy, the basal area 

 suffused with dark sap-green ; cilia black, alternated with white. Foreiving with a 

 pale greyish-blue .short outwardly-oblique upper-discal band and a transverse outer- 

 discal broad lunular recurved band gradually decreasing in width upward, being- 

 slender and brokenly speckled above the median and ending in a small subapical 

 angular spot on the costa ; in some specimens a black dot is present in the two 

 lower lunules ; outer border with two very ill-defined marginal blue-speckled slender 

 lunular lines ; costal edge striated with pale blue. Hindwiiig with a transverse outer 

 discal broad pale greyish-blue band gradually decreasing in width upward aud bear- 

 ing an outwardly-placed series of very small black spots between the veinlets ; the 

 two outer marginal blue-speckled lines ill-defined. Underside beautifully variegated, 

 the ground-colour being more or less bright brownish-ochreous, the basal two-thirds 

 prominently edged by a discal black zigzag line, and the outer lunular borders dark 

 greyish-brown or sap-brown, and numerously covered throughout, except at the 

 apices, with short black, violet-grey, and ochreous striga? ; normal cell-marks with 

 brownish-ochreous or grey centres ; a small ochreous-white spot at lower end of each 

 cell, the one on the hindwing being the largest and dentate; an outer discal row of black 

 dots, those on the forewing enclosed more or less in a circular area of the ground- 



