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LEPIDOPTERA INPICA. 
Vanessa Kashmeriensis, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 403. 
Vanessa Flacilla, Doubleday MS., in Gray’s Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 11 (1846). 
Imago. —Male and female. Forewing with the ground-colour of the cell and discal 
area rich chestnut-red; base of the costa with short black and olivescent-ochreous 
strigas; base of the cell and posterior margin densely covered with olivescent- 
ochreous scales; a black quadrate bar across middle of the cell, then a pale yellow 
bar, then another much broader black bar from the costal to upper median, with 
another pale yellow bar beyond it, and then again a third broad black bar with a 
small bluish-white costal spot placed outwardly beyond it; within the discal area are 
two rounded black superposed spots between the median interspaces, the lower one 
being the largest, and below which is an ill-defined narrow streak formed by blackish 
scales ; a larger but more irregular and diffused black spot placed inwardly between 
the lower median and submedian, and having a narrow diffused pale yellow or 
whitish patch between it and the outer streak; outer margin broadly greyish- 
fuliginous traversed by a medial blacker lunular fascia and two outer paler lines. 
Hindwing with the basal two-thirds black, densely irrorated basally with olivescent- 
ochreous scales and numerously covered with similar coloured or reddish hairs ; a 
broad outer-discal chestnut-red band with its inner edge irregular and its outer edge 
even, and its costal end diffusedly-speckled with pale yellow or whitish scales; outer 
margin broadly greyish-fuliginous, traversed by a medial row of prominent deep 
black dentate-lunules with blue-speckled centres, and two outer marginal paler lines ; 
abdominal margin greyish-fuliginous. Underside oclireous-brown, densely covered 
with slender short black strigse ; basal two-thirds clouded with dark brown and out¬ 
wardly defined by an irregular zigzag black line, which is most distinct on the hind- 
wing; cells of both wings crossed by two pairs of sinuous black lines centred with 
dull dark bluish-grey; outer margins traversed by a continuous row of black-speckled 
lunules with dull bluish-grey centres. Body and palpi above dark olivescent-brown, 
beneath and legs olivescent-grey ; antennas black above and articulated with white, 
shaft beneath and tip ochreous-red. 
Expanse, S 2 to 2^ 0 , ? 2^ 0 to 2& inches. 
Larva. —Head subquadrate, slightly hairy, vertex indented in the middle, fore¬ 
head on each side with several strong short sharp spines each ending in a fine hair ; 
face and cheeks minutely tuberculated ; segments slightly hairy, armed with a dorsal 
and three lateral rows of long sharp branched-spines. Head black; spines blackish, 
segments dark purpurescent-black, almost black, paler beneath; with two dorsal 
and two sublateral slender yellow maculated lines, the subdorsal and sublateral inter- 
areas being numerously covered with minute yellow spots. (Described from pre¬ 
served specimen in Rev. J. H. Hocking’s Coll.) 
Pupa. —Hot known. 
