372 KTMPHALIDJS. 



wing with a white spot at apex of cell and a continuation of the 

 pale discal band of the fore wing, but far less prominent, much 

 narrower and sinuous ; beyond this the terminal half of the wing 

 dull black, the transverse short striae very sparse, but with a 

 transverse postdiscal series of minute black dots as on the upper- 

 side. Antennae black, necked with minute ochraceons dots ; head 

 and thorax dark blue ; abdomen dull black ; beneath, the palpi and 

 thorax with slightly bluish long hairs, the abdomen black flecked 

 with white. 



Exp. S 2 61-75 mm. (2-4-2-95"). 



Hob. The Himalayas, Kashmir to Sikhim ; Southern India, the 

 Nilgiris, Mysore and Travancore ; the hills of Assam, Burma and 

 Tenasserim above 3000 ft. 



Larva. " Segments alternately orange and white, with numerous 

 black spots on the orange segments and black streaks on the 

 white ; seven white, branching, black-tipped spines on each orange 

 segment." (G. F. Hampson.) 



Pupa. "Variegated reddish brown, with frontal gold and silver 

 spots ; head produced and bifid." (G. F. Hampson,) 



Race haronica, Moore. — <$ $ . Closely resembles the typical 

 form, but on the upperside the ground-colour at the bases of the 

 wings is sometimes suffused with green, the transverse broad blue 

 band is discal not postdiscal, and anteriorly is continuous with the 

 broad short oblique bar beyond the cell, not commencing as in 

 canace below the preapical white spot. On the hind wing the band 

 is without the series of black dots, but beyond it there is a trans- 

 verse postdiscal row of small blue spots. Underside as in canace, 

 but the ground-colour paler. 



Exp. c? $ slightly greater than in the typical form. 



Hah. The hills of"Ceylon. 



Larva. "Light red; spotted with black, the segments divided by 

 blackish and purple lines ; anal segment slightly humped ; segments 

 armed with eight longitudinal rows of yellow branched spines ; 

 head and legs black. Feeds on Smilaoc." {Moore.) 



Pupa. " Eeddish brown ; abdominal segment with two dorsal 

 rows of small reddish pointed tubercles ; thorax angular ; head- 

 piece produced and bifid." (Moore.) 



385. Vanessa C-album, Linn. (Papilio) Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, p. 477 ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 237 ; Moore (Polygonia), Lep. Ind. 

 iv, 1899-1900, p. 97, pi. 318, figs. 2, 2«-2 e, J $ . 

 Polygonia cognata, Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 98, pi. 319, 

 figs. 1, la-Id, J$. 



Pace agnicula. 

 Grapta agnicula, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 559 ( S only) ; Moore 

 (Polygonia), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 99, pi. 319, ngs. 2, 2 a- 

 2c, tf$. 

 Vanessa c-album, var. tibetana, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 363, pi. 10, fig. 1. 

 Wet-season form. — S • Upperside deep fulvous. Fore wing 



