NTMPHALIN^. (Group NT:aFBALiyj..) 95 



Battakana (Vanessa Battakana, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1895, 

 p. 428, <??. Habitat. IS .-E. Sumatra. — Eaiiiska Benguetana{YsLnessSiBenguetana, 

 Semper, Keis. Phil. Lep. p. 122, pi. 21, fig. 11, 12, ^ (1888). Hahitat. Luzon, 

 Philippines. 



Genus POLYGONIA. 



Polygonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 36 (1816). Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 309 (1889). 



Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 86 (1894). 

 Ccmmay Rennie, Consp. Butt. p. 8 (1832). 

 Grapia, Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer. iv. p. 292 (1837). Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 12 (18-50). 



Stainton, Manual Brit. Butt. i. p. 40 (1857). Staudinger et Schiitz, Exot. Scbmett. ii. p. 124 



(1887). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing some-what elongated and narrow, subtriangular ; costa 

 slightly arched from near the base and thence straight to near the end, the apex 

 pointed ; exterior margin slightly oblique and anteriorly produced obliquely-outward 

 below the apex into a prominent broadly-projecting angle, below which the margin 

 is concave and sinuous, and with a broader projecting angle at end of the lower 

 median veinlet ; posterior margin much recurved ; costal vein extending to more 

 than half the margin : first subcostal branch emitted at about one-fourth before end 

 of the cell, second at one-eighth before ; discocellulars oblique, upper discocellular 

 extremely short, middle concave, lower discocellular straight, slender ; median 

 veinlets wide apart ; submedian vein slightly recurved. Eindiving short, broad, 

 triangular ; anterior margin basally lobate and slightly arched towards the apex ; 

 exterior mai'gin very oblique, sinuous, excavated below the apex, broadly angular 

 at end of first subcostal, and with a prominent projecting rounded caudate-angle at 

 end of upper median veinlet ; anal angle also projected ; precostal vein slightly bent 

 or curved outward near tip ; cell closed by a slender discocellular veinlet. Bodi/ 

 very stout ; palpi porrect, extending two-thirds beyond the front, compressed at the 

 sides and beneath, densely clothed throughout with rather short hair-scales, the 

 middle and lower joint slightly fringed beneath with fine long hairs, and the middle 

 joint above more densely with stouter hairs ; fore tibite and tarsi, in the male, laxly 

 scaly above, the sides rather thickly clothed with laterally-spreading long, very fine 

 silky hairs ; femora beneath with less numerous fine silky hairs ; fore tibi« and 

 tarsi, in the female, laxly scaly above, the sides less thickly clothed witli shorter 

 silky hairs, apical joints with short stout spines ; antenna with a short stout club ; 

 eyes hairy. 



Larva. — Head subquadrate, minutely hairy, vertex slightly depressed in middle, 

 each lobe surmounted with a short tubercular horn, the tip of which is set with hard 



