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laterally, and, except the fifth joint, below : the spines of the lower surface arranged in 
two nearly regular series ; first joint about four times the length of the second, third and 
fourth each gradually shorter, fifth longer than the second ; claws long, but little curved, 
grooved below; paronychia with the inner lacinia wanting or very short, the outer as loug 
as the claw and slender, but little hairy ; pulvillus small, short. 
" Larva cylindric, the head and first thoracic segment unarmed, the rest armed with long spines, 
set with setoj in whorls. Pupa very angular and tuberculate ; the head deeply bifid, of 
some shade of brown, sometimes pale green, often bearing brilliant golden spots." 
(Douhledaif, I. c). 
Vanessa limenitoides. 
Vanessa limenitoides, Oberthiir^ Etud. d^Entom. xiii. p. 39, pi. ix. fig. 96 (1890). 
" La forme des ailes de cette intcressante nouveaute est analogue a celle do la Vanessa indica. 
" Les ailes sont noires en dessus avec des taches blanc jauuatre disposees comme suit : 1° aux 
superieures, une tache arrondie dans la cellule ; deux taches, I'une de meme grosseur que 
celle de la cellule et Tinferieure plus grosse, egalement arrondies, au-dessous de la nervure 
mediane ; une serie de trois taches allongees extracellulaires, pres du bord costal ; six taches 
a pen pros paralleles au bord subterminal et dont les deux premieres sont d'un blanc plus pur ; 
2° aux infcriourcs, une large tachc descendant du bord costal au bord anal, formant presque 
un triangle isocele dont le bord exterieur forme la base ; les cotes de ce triangle n'etaiit 
cependant pas rectiligncs, mais un pen ondules ; enfin quelqucs points formant une serie assoz 
droitc de quatro on cinq entre la tache triangulaire et lo bord externe. 
" Le dessous diffcre du dessus parce qu'un lavis olivatre remplace le noir a I'apcx des supericures 
et sur toute la surface des inferieures ; do plus, aux iuferieurcs, la tache triangulaire blancho 
et le bord anal sout sillonues de quelques traits grisatres qu'on voit, du reste, transparaitre en 
dessus ; enfin quelques taches noires apparaissent pres du bord costal dans et a I'extremite de 
la cellule, dans I'espace subterminal et a Textrcmite des nervures le long du bord terminal. 
Tse-kou {2i. P. Duhernard)." (Oberthiir, I. c.) 
Black, with creamy-white markings. Primaries have a roundish spot towards the outer end of 
discoidal cell, sometimes preceded by a smaller indistinct one, the central band is represented 
by three spots near costa and two larger ones towards inner margin, the lower one intersected 
by the submedian nervure ; submarginal series of six spots, the second placed out of line 
with the rest, thus causing the scries to correspond with the outline of the outer margin. 
Secondaries have a broad central fascia intersected by the neuration, and only separated from 
a largo patch filling up the outer half of cell by the discoccllulars and ai blackish patcli 
placed thereon ; submarginal series of white spots small and placed in the ncrvular inter- 
spaces ; abdominal fold whitish, suffused with dusky. Under surface similar to the upporside, 
l)ut the apex of jirimaries is greyish, the costa edged wi<h whitish, and there is a white 
cuneiform spot in the basal half of the cell : secondaries with the black ground-colour 
replaced by grey, and there are three black B])ot8 forming a curved sorios in the basal area. 
(){' this interesting species I have received but one specimen, which was 
taken in the neighbourhood of Ta-chien-lu. As its characters are not exactly 
those of a Vanessa it is probable that a new genus will have to be created for 
the reception of tliis insect. 
