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jet-black striae ; the short oblique subcostal cream-coloured oblique 

 bands on the fore wing aud the broad cream-coloured terminal 

 margins of both fore and hind wiugs much as on the upperside but 

 sprinkled with minute black dots ; the short oblique bands much 

 narrower than on the upperside ; small cream-coloured spots also 

 at the apices of the cells in both wings ; finally, numerous stiff black 

 hairs extend along the basal half of the costal margin of the fore 

 wing and project prominently beyond it. Antennas, head, thorax 

 and abdomen very dark brownish black above and beneath ; the 

 antennas ochraceous at apex ; the palpi, thorax and base of the 

 abdomen beneath verv hairy. 



Exp. S 2 74-80 mm. (2-91-3-17"). 



Hob. Within our limits the " Camberwell Beauty " has been 

 taken only in the Chumbi Valley east of Sikhim and in Bhutan. 

 It occurs in Europe, Central Asia, China and Japan. 



384. Vanessa canace, Johanmen (Papilio), Centur. Ins. 1763, p. 23 ; 

 de N. Butt. hid. ii, 1886, p. 231 ; Sampson, J. A. S. B. 1888, 

 pt. 2, p. 355 ; Moore (Kaniska), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 92, 

 pi. 315, figs. 1,1 a, S 2 ■ 



Race harouica (PI. VI, fig. 40). 



Vanessa haronica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 137 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. i, 

 1881, p. 49, pi. 25. figs. 2, 2 a, <$ , larva & pupa ; de N. Butt. Ind. 

 ii, 1886, p. 232: Moore (Kaniska), Lep. Ind.iv, 1899-1900, p. 94, 

 pi. 315, figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, larva & pupa, <$ 2 • 



$ 2 • Upperside deep indigo-blue black ; a postdiscal slightly 

 sinuous blue band crossing both fore and hind wings, on the fore 

 wing commencing immediately below a preapical white spot just 

 beneath the costa and broadening gradually to the dorsum, on the 

 hind wing broadening from the costa and extending to vein 1. On 

 the fore wing this band is crossed by the black veins, the portion 

 in each interspace, except in 1 a and 1, rounded interiorly ; ante- 

 riorly beyond the cell a short broad obliquely-placed bar joins the 

 band almost to the costa. On the hind wing this band is traversed 

 along its outer margin by a series of small black dots. On both 

 wings there are some transverse, more or less broken, subterminal 

 and terminal linear blue marks, more clearly defined and more 

 continuous on the hind wing. In the 2 the postdiscal band is 

 broader than in the <$ . Underside brownish black, covered 

 thickly with short transverse jet-black strise; the basal halves 

 of the wings defined outwardly by a highly sinuous, somewhat 

 broken, jet-black broad line ; some similarly coloured transverse 

 short broad marks in and below cell of fore wing ; apex of fore 

 wing broadly pale brown, that colour continued as a very broad 

 irregular discal band to the dorsum ; touched at the costa and 

 outwardly near the tornus with greyish white; beyond this band a 

 curved postdiscal sinuous series of jet-black lunules followed by a 

 black subterminal ill-defined line, both the latter commencing at 

 the falcate angle of the termen and extending to the tornus. Hind 



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