NYMPH A LIN YE. (Group NYMPH ALIN A.) 
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bent inward j cell open. Hindwing broadly ovate, short 5 anterior margin much 
arched, exterior margin convex and scalloped; precostal vein bifid ; costal vein 
ending at fully one-third before the apex. Body slender ; palpi very slender ; eyes 
naked. Type. R. gracilis .—Basalia gracilis (Athyma gracilis, Kirsch, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1885, p. 276, pi. 19, fig. 4). Syn. Neptis Dohertyi, Grose-Smith, Nov. Zool. 
ii. 1895, p. 79. Habitat. Tenimber, Timor Laut. 
Group Y. NYMPHALINA. 
Hamadryades , Htibner, Tentamen, p. 1 (1806). 
Nymphalides (part), Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 16 (1840). 
VanessidcB, Duponchel, Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 6 (1844). 
Vanessidi, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 11 (1850). Stainton, Manual Brit. Lep. p. 21 (185/). 
Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. p. 306 (1889). 
Vanessides, Kirby, Eur. Butt. p. 36 (1862). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 69 (1869). 
Nymphalina (part), Herr. Sehoeff. Prod. Syst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 83 
(1882). 
Nymphalides (part), Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 46 (1869). 
Diademce (part), Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. p. 98 (1869). 
Nymphalidce (part), Lang, Rhop. Eur. p. 159 (1884). 
Kallimce et Apaturince, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pp. 109, 121. 
Nymphalidce (Yanessa group, part), Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 122 (1887). 
Nymphalina, Moore, Lep. Indica, ii. p. 225 (1895). 
Characters oe the Group Nymphalina A 
Imago. —Forewings elongately triangular, or triangular; apex obtusely angled 
or rounded, in some produced to a more or less distinct point; exterior margin 
either more or less slightly scalloped and with a more or less prominent outward 
angle below the apex and a lesser angle at the lower median veinlet, or the entire 
margin slightly but obtusely scalloped, or more or less even. Hindivings short, 
obovate, or somewhat quadrate, the exterior margin either more or less slightly 
scalloped, or nearly even, or, in some the apex is slightly excised, and with a short 
broad caudate angle at end of the upper median veinlet; or, in some the wing is 
triangular, with the exterior margin nearly or quite even, and the anal angle pro¬ 
duced into a lobate tail. 
Larva.— Head mostly very slightly cleft, in some surmounted with two minute 
tuberculous-spines or very short stellate-spines, or armed with two long orect 
branched-spines or two fleshy-spines. Body armed with longitudinal series of 
branched-spines, or with a single dorsal fleshy-spine on sixth and twelfth segment. 
* See Note in Lep. Indica, vol. ii. p. 226. 
