370 NYMPIIALIDiE. 



sinuous transverse subterminal black baud, and a terminal dusky 

 band necked with golden brown ; the black subterminal band 

 on the hind wing with an outer border of blue lunules margined 

 outwardly by a slender black line ; the fore wing just below the costa, 

 between the black patches beyond the cell and between the outer 

 black patch and subterminal band, prominently pale yellow. In the $ 

 an incomplete series of yellow lunules also borders the subterminal 

 black band on the outer side. Underside dull ochraceous brown, 

 the basal half of both fore and hind wings and a broad terminal 

 margin darker brown ; the wings entirely and thickly covered with 

 slender transverse dark brown striae ; irregular cell-marks on the 

 fore wing and a transverse highly sinuous subterminal band of 

 dark blue lunules on both wings ; these lunules denned by slender 

 black lines on both sides. Bases of the wings with a clothing of 

 long stiff black hairs, which are blunt at their apices, and on the 

 fore wing extend along the basal half of the costal margin, pro- 

 jecting outwards beyond it. Antennas, head and thorax very 

 dark brown, abdomen fulvous ; beneath very hairy ; palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown, the abdomen towards the apex paler. 



Exp. 6 $ 63-68 mm. (2-49-2-7"). 



Hob. E. Europe; the Himalayas from Kashmir to Mussooree; 

 China and Japan. 



" Larva. Cylindrical, slightly hairy. Head subquadrate, vertex 

 sharply indented in front, slightly hairy, front and cheeks with 

 several small pointed tubercles. Third to last segments armed 

 with a dorsal row of short spines, and three lateral rows of long 

 rigid branched spines. Colour dark purpurescent-brown, almost 

 black, palest beneath ; with two dorsal slender yellowish macular 

 lines, and a single similar lateral line, the subdorsal and sublateral 

 areas longitudinally speckled with numerous irregular - shaped 

 yellow dots. Spines black ; head black. Reared on willow." 

 {Moore.) 



383. Vanessa antiopa, Linnceus (Papilio), Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, 

 p. 476; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 232 ; Moore (Euvanessa), 

 Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 83, pi. 316, figs. 1, 1 a, tf . 



<3 $ • Upperskle rich dark maroon-red ; costal margin of fore 

 wing broadly black, necked with rich creamy-white on basal half 

 and with two short broad cream-coloured oblique bands on the 

 apical half ; the terminal margins of the maroon ground-colour on 

 both fore and hind wings darkening into a comparatively broad black 

 postdiscal band with a row of superposed spots, deep blue in the 

 female, violet-blue in the male ; the outer margin of the black band 

 on the fore wing sinuous, on the hind wing evenly rounded ; 

 terminal margins of wings very broadly creamy-white flecked with 

 minute black dots somewhat closely on the anterior half of the 

 margin of the fore wing, thus forming a distinct slender black 

 border ; dorsal margin of the hind wings broadly dull blackish brown. 

 Underside rich purpurescent black, densely set with short slender 



