94 LEPIDOPTEUA INDICA. 



from October to Februarj', but rarer in the further South " (List Burmese Butt. 

 1897, 25). Dr. N. Manders found it " not uncommon and widely distributed 

 throughout the Shan States, Burma" (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 525). 



KANISKA HARONICA (Plate 315, fig. 2, larva andp«j9a, 2a, b, c? ?). 



Vanessa Hawnica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 137 ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 49, pi. 25, fig. 2, J, 

 fig. 2a, larva and pupa (1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc , ii. p. 232 (1886). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside deep blue-black ; basal areas suffused 

 with dark sap-green. Foreicing with a greyish-blue continuous curved band medially 

 disposed across the disc, broader than in Ganace, its upper end being formed by 

 the similar placed upper-discal oblique band of the latter species ; a small bluish- 

 white costal lunule before the apex, with a few blue scales scattered marginally below 

 it. Hiiidicing with the greyish-blue band also medially-disposed across the disc, and 

 having a parallel row of small blue-speckled spots disposed beyond its outer border ; 

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

 as in Gaiince, but with all the markings brighter and more distinctly defined. 



Expanse, cJ 2^%, 2 2j^ to Sn) inches. 



Lakva. — Light red; spotted with black, the segments divided by blackish and 

 purple lines ; anal segment slightly humped ; segments armed with eight longitudinal 

 rows of yellow branched-spines ; head and legs black. Feeds on Smilaj;. 



Pupa. — Reddish-brown ; abdominal segments with two dorsal rows of small 

 reddish pointed tubercles ; thorax angular ; head-piece produced and bifid. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — " Found in hilly country from 2000 to 6000 feet elevation. 

 Very common on pathways or roads bordered by jungle. Occurs all the year round. 

 Larva feeds on the wild yam " (F. M. Mackwood, MS. xSotes). Capt. Wade also 

 took it in the " Kottawa Forest, Galle, also at Kandy " (Lep. Ceylon, 49). 



Lido-Malatan Species. — Kaniska Charonia (Pap. Charonia, Drury, lllust. Exot. 

 Ent. i. pi. XV. fig. 1, 2 (1770). Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 47, fig. A-C (1775). Herbst, 

 Pap. pi. 160, fig. 1, 2 (1794). Vanessa Charonia, Godt. Enc. Meth. Lx. p. 308 

 (1819). Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 183 (1871). Elwes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 898. Syn. 

 Pap. Kolliua, Meerburgh, pi. 43 (1775). Van. Oanace, Leech, Butt, China, etc., i. 

 p. 225 (1893). Habitat. S. China; Toukiu; Hongkong. — Kanisha Jajponicum (Pap. 

 No-Japonicum, Siebold, Diss. Hist. Nat. Japon, p. 16 (1824). Kymphalis No- 

 Japonicum, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. Suppl. p. 732 (1878). Van. Glauconia, Mot- 

 schulsky. Etudes Ent. ix. p. 128 (1860). Van. Canace (part). Leech, I.e. p. 225 

 (1893). Habitat. Japan; Corea. — A'a/i/sA'a PfraX-a ?;« (Vanessa Perakana, Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 430, pi. 40, fig. 1, ? (1886). Habitat. Malay Peninsula.— ^an/ii-a 



