102 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



China, etc, i. p. 267, pi. 25, fig. 4, S . Habitat. Japan. — Polygonia Fentoni (Van. 

 Fentoni, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 281 (1878). Habitat. Japan. — Polygonia lunigera 

 (Van. lunigera, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 850. Habitat. Japan. — Polygonia 

 Hamigera (Van. Hamigera, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 92. Habitat. Japan. 

 — Polygonia gigantea (Grajjta gigantea. Leech, Ent. 1890, p. 189 ; Butt. China, etc., 

 i. p. 263, pi. 25, fig. 6, ? (1893). {Wet-season form.) Syn. Polygonia extensa 

 (Grapta C. album, var. extensa, Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 265, pi. 25, fig. 5, 9 

 (1893). {Dry-season form.) Habitat. W. and C. China, 



Genus VANESSA. 



Vanessa, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss (Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807). Latreille, Consid. Gen. p. 440 

 (1810). Hlibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 96 (1825). Scudder, 

 Syst. Rev. Amer. Butt. p. 2 (1872) ; id. Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 430 (1889). 



Pyrameit, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 202 (1849). 

 Stephens, Catal. B. Lep. B. M. p. 11 (1850). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 49 (1880). Staudinger 

 et Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 125 (1887). Kirby, Allen's N. H. Butt. i. p. 96 (1894). 



Bassaris, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. ii. id. Index, p. 4 (1816-21). 



Ammiralis, Kennie, Consp. Butt. p. 10 (1832). 



Cynthia, Stephens, Illust. B. Ent. Haust. i. p. 47 (1827). Rennie, Con.sp. p. 10 (1832). Westwood, 

 Brit. Butt. p. 56 (1841). Stainton, Manual Brit. Butt. i. p. 36 (1857). 



Phanessa, Sodoffsk. Bull. Mosc. x, p. 80 (1837). 



Neopyrameis, Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 434 (1889). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing triangular ; costa slightly arched, exterior margin 

 oblique and slightly angular below the apex, scalloped ; posterior margin straight ; 

 costal vein extending to two-thirds the margin ; first and second subcostal branches 

 emitted at equal distances close before end of the cell, thii'd at nearly half length 

 beyond, fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond ; upper discocellular very short, middle 

 short and curved outward, lower discocellular long, slender, recurved obliquely out- 

 ward ; radials from angle near subcostal and end of middle discocellular ; cell broad ; 

 middle median emitted at one-fifth before lower end of the cell, lower at one-half its 

 length ; submedian vein almost straight. Hindiving short, triangular ; exterior 

 margin convex, scalloped, abdominal margin long ; costal vein extending to apex ; 

 precostal vein bent abruptly outward, emitted at a short distance beyond base of 

 subcostal ; first subcostal branch emitted at two-thirds from its base ; upper dis- 

 cocellular slightly convexly-oblique, lower slender, very oblique and straight ; radial 

 from end of upper discocellular ; cell broad ; two upper median branches from end 

 of cell, lower at one-thii-d before its end and opposite second subcostal ; submedian 



