166 NYMPHALID^. 
cloud contains two small hyaline spots, r/ecouclaries have the outer margin 
bordered with black ; the central band is represented by six black spots, the 
&st almost obliterated ; the basal area and border of the greyish abdominal 
fold is suffused with blackish. Under surface of the primaries very similar 
to that of the male but the ground-colour is yellower, the secondaries are 
almost exactly identical. 
AVhen I described this species I placed it provisionally in the genus 
Vanessa. I now find that it is allied to Dilijya {Apatura 1) mnrgiana, West- 
wood (Gen. Diiu'u. Lep. ii. p. 305). 
Genus ABROTA. 
Abrota, Moore, Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 176 (1857j. 
" Head of moderate size, tufted in front. 
" Eyes prominent, naked. 
" Anteaiuf long, filiform at the base, gradually thickening to a slender cylindric club. 
" Labial palpi elevated above the level of the ej-es, hairy, those at the base, side, and in front, 
long. 
" Abdomen of moderate size. 
" Thorax robust, clothed with long hairs. 
" Fore luings elongate-trigonate ; anterior margin boldly curved ; apical angle slightly rounded ; 
outer margin somewhat straight in the male, concave in the female, slightly waved, two 
thirds the length of the anterior ; posterior margin, slightly concave, rather longer than the 
outer ; costal vein thick at the base, extending to beyond the middle of the costa ; sub- 
o stal vein with the first branch arising about one fourth the length of the wing, second a 
little beyond it, and before the extremity of the discoidal cell, third branch arising at two 
thirds the length of the wing, and extending in a slight curve to the tip, fourth branch 
straight, arising halfway between it and the apes, which it reaches just below the tip ; the 
terminal portion of the vein deflexed ; upper disoocellular vein verj' short, outwardly 
oblique, arising at one third from the base of the wing ; middle discoceUular vein curved 
outwi rd ; lower discoceUular vein long, curved out^-ard, and uniting with the third branch 
of the median vein at a little distance beyond its origin, closing the cell at a little more than 
one third the length of the wing. 
" Hind wings somewhat rounded ; anterior margin arched at the base, from thence nearly 
straight to the apex, where it curves slightly downward ; exterior margin rather longer 
than the anterior, rounded and waved ; precostal vein curved outward ; costal vein curved, 
extending to the apex ; subcostal vein branching near its base ; upper discoceUular vein 
arising at a short distance from the base of the subcostal branch ; lower discoceUular vein 
obsolete, so that the ceU is open. 
" Fore legs of the male slender ; femur scaly in front, beneath clothed with fine long silky hairs ; 
tibia as long as the femur, clothed with downy hairs ; tarsus two thirds the length of tibia, 
conical, covered with uniform hairs : of the female, scaly ; femur with a few silky hairs 
