NYMPHA LINJE. (Group NYMPH ALIN A.) 
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discocell ill ar slender and obliquely recurved; middle median veinlet from some 
considerable distance before lower end of cell, lower median at fully half before 
the end. Hindwing short, triangular; exterior margin very obliquely convex, 
prominently scalloped, with a prominent projecting broadly-obtuse caudate angle at 
end of upper median, and a less similar angle at end of lower median ; precostal 
vein straight; cell closed by a slender lower discocellular veinlet. Wings beneath 
with numerous projecting rigid bristly hairs, some of which project forward from 
base of costa on the forewing. Body robust; palpi somewhat compressed laterally, 
clothed throughout with short erect hair-like scales, interspersed with long erect 
bristly hairs; antennae with a stout cylindrical club ; fore tibiae and tarsi, in the male , 
rather thickly but laxly clothed with longisli fine silky hairs interspersed with much 
longer and more bristly hairs ; femora beneath with longish fine silky hairs ; fore tibiae 
and tarsi, in the female , less thickly clothed with fine longish hairs, shortest and 
decreasing to near tip of tarsi, apical joints minutely spined. Eyes hairy. 
Larva. —Cylindrical, slightly hairy. Head subquadrate, vertex sharply indented 
in front, slightly hairy, front and cheeks with several small pointed tubercles. 
Third to last segment armed with a dorsal row of short spines and three lateral rows 
of long rigid branched-spines. 
Pupa. —Stout. Head-piece cleft and pointed ; thorax with a rounded posterior 
prominence; abdominal segments with a dorsal row of points and a lateral row of 
lesser tubercular points. 
Type.— E. Polychloros. 
ETJGONIA XANTHOMELAS (Plate 316, fig. 2, 2a, $ $). 
Papilio Xanthomelas , Denis et Sehieffcrmuller, Wien. Yerz. p. 176 (1776). Esper, Schmett. i. pt. 2, 
pi. 63, fig. 4 (1780). Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. fig. 85, 86 (1793). Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. 
i. p. 117 (1807). 
.Vanessa Xanthomelas, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 820 (1823). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 
p. 137 (1857); P. Z. S. 1882, p. 240. de Nieeville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 235, pi. 18, fig. 73, 
(1886). Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 260 (1893). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside rich fulvous. Forewing with the costal 
edge more or less striated with olivescent-ochreous and black ; two black spots 
superposed obliquely outward in middle of the cell, which are often more or less 
joined together and sometimes forming a single quadrate spot; a large quadrate 
black patch from the costa at end of the cell, then a pale yellow diffused costal 
patch, another black patch outwardly decreasing in width to or below the lower 
radial, and then a pale yellow more or less narrow subcostal macular streak; within 
the disc are two superposed somewhat quadrate black spots between the upper and 
