100 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



well isolated, the costal border black ; the marginal black band traversed by broad 

 lunulas of the same bright fulvous as the ground-colour, and also outwardly 

 speckled with fulvous-grey. Underside greyish sepia-brown, brownest on the basal 

 areas, the outer areas numerously covered with very fine black strigiE and traversed 

 by a discal row of slightly-perceptible black dots with pale borders ; comma-shaped 

 mark slender. 



Expanse, <? ? , 2 to 2j^q inches. 



Dry -aeason form (Plate 319, fig. 2, b, c, c?)- 



Upperside clear fulvous-yellow ; of a uniform tint throughout ; marginal 

 lunulas on the hindwing of the same colour; black markings somewhat larger. 

 Underside dark ochreous-brown, darker throughout than in wet form of cognata. 



Expanse, 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal ; Chumbi, Sikkim ; N. W. Bhotan. 



Distribution. — The type specimens of agnicula were taken at Katmandu, in 

 Nepal, by the late Major-Gen. G. Ramsay. Mr. H. J. Elwes records his type of 

 tibefana as having been taken by native collectors in Chumbi and N. "W. Bhotan 

 (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 363). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 122) records 

 agnicula as having been taken by himself on the Pindai'i Glacier, 12,000 feet 

 elevation, and Byans Valley, in Eastern Kumaon, 12,000 to 15,000 feet elevation, 

 and remarks, " These species {C-album and Agnicula) are closely allied, but I have 

 been able to separate my own specimens by means of slight differences in the 

 prehensores, as well as by the shape and colouring." 



Our illustrations of this species on Plate 319, figs. 2, 2a, are from a Nepal type of 

 Agnicula {wet-season form) ; and figs. 2b, c, from a male dry-season form, from 

 Chumbi, kindly given to me by Mr. Elwes. 



POLYQONIA INTERPOSITA (Plate 318, fig. 1, la, (J, ? ). 



Vanessa intcrposita, Staudinger, Stettin Entom. Zeit. 1881, pp. 286-7. 

 Vanessa Egea, de Kiceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 237 (1886), nee Cramer. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside deep dusky-fulvous ; cilia black and 

 alternately edged with grey. Forewing with two outwardly-oblique superposed small 

 black spots across middle of the cell, a broad black discocellular streak at its end 

 extending from the costa to upper median veinlet, and three discal inwardly-oblique 

 small spots, the upper two being much the smallest in the male, and the upper one 

 almost obsolescent ; a dusky-castaneous oblique patch before the apex, its costal 

 end being broadly black ; a broad blackish outer-marginal border very indistinctly 



