NYMPHALIN^. (Group NYHPHALINA.) 103 



recurved ; internal vein recurved from the base. Body stout, abdomen short; palpi 

 porrect, compactly clothed with short appressed hairs at sides and beneath, second 

 joint long and projecting half its length beyond the head, third joint short, pointed; 

 fore tibia3 and tarsi in the male somewhat scaly above, the sides very densely clothed 

 with laterally spreading long coarse silky hairs, femora beneath with less numerous 

 shorter hairs ; fore tibiae and tarsi, in the female, somewhat scaly above, the sides 

 less densely clothed with long coarse silky hairs, apical joints spined ; antennae 

 long, with a short thick cylindrical club ; eyes hairy. 



Laeva. — Cylindrical, delicately hairy ; armed with a dorsal and five incomplete 

 lateral rows of branched-spines ; head slightly subquadate, vertex depressed in 

 middle, regularly covered with minute tapering warts ; hairy. 



Pupa. — Head-piece obtuse, bluntly cleft ; thorax dorsally raised and angled 

 near the middle ; abdomen dorsally arched, and with a dorsal row of conical points 

 and lateral rows of lesser points. 



Type.— V. Atalanta. 



VANESSA INDICA (Plate 320, fig. 1, 1, a, b; ^ 9)- 



Papilio Atalanta ImUca, Herbst, Nat. Schmett. vii. p. 171, pi. 180, fig. 1, 2 (1794). 



Pyrameis Indica, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 185 (1871). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 50, pi. 27, fig. 2 



(1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 229, pi. 18, fig. 74, ? (1886). 

 Papilio Atalanta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 84, fig. E, F (1775), nee Linn. 

 Hamadrijas decora Calliroe, Hiibner, Samuel Exot. Schmett. (1806-16). 

 Pyrameis Calliroe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Doubleday and Hewits. D. Lep. 



p. 204. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 138 (1857). 

 Vanessa Calliroe, Gray, Lep. of Nepal, p. 11 (1846). 

 Pyrameis nuhicola, Fruhst. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 151. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Forewing black, with a broad medial 

 outwardly-oblique irregular red band, the lower portion of which is traversed by 

 three irregular-shaped black patches ; basal ai'ea and posterior margin golden- 

 brown ; an oblique inner subapical series of white quadrate spots and an outer 

 subapical series of small white dentate spots. Hindwing golden-brown, with an 

 olivescent or purplish gloss in certain lights ; costal border greyish-ochreous ; an 

 outer marginal red band inwardly-bordered by black conically-lunate spots, and 

 traversed by a row of black lunulate spots and outer marginal line. Cilia alternated 

 with white. Underside. Forewing similar to upperside, except that the base of 

 costa is striated with black, the apex broadly ochreous-brown and with two small 

 ocelli below the white dentate spots, a partly blue and whitish marginal line, a blue- 



