NTMPHAL1NJE. (Group NYMPH ALINA .) 
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Expanse, S 1 x -q to 2, ? 2^ inches. 
Habitat.— Northern Himalayas. 
Distribution.— The type specimens were taken at Gogra, Ohangchenmo, at 
15,000 feet elevation, in Ladak, and at the Karatagh Lake, on snow, 16,890 feet 
elevation, in Yarkund, by the late Dr. F. Stoliczka, during the Indian Government 
Mission to Yarkund in 1873. In Mr. J. H. Leech’s collection are specimens of both 
sexes from the Kardong Pass, 14,000 feet, in Ladak, taken in August; from the 
Digha Pass, 15,000 feet, taken in June, and from the Karakorum, 18,000, taken in 
July by Oapt. McArthur. Examples are in the British Museum from W. Tibet, 
taken by Oapt, Colomb, Mr. P. W. Mackinnon says of it, 44 Very rare, specimens 
only obtained on the Nilang Pass, 15,000 feet elevation, in July ” (Journ. Bombay 
N. H. Soc. 1898, 375). Mr. W. Doherty records it from 44 near Kalapani, Nepalese 
Tibet, at 14,000 feet elevation, and near Hindi, Chinese Tibet, 15,000 feet elevation. 
The prehensores are quite different from those of Kaschmirensis ” (J. As. Soc. Beng. 
1886, 122). Mr. H. J. Elwes records it from the 44 Eastern frontier in Ohumbi or 
Bhotan ” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 363). In the 44 Sikkim Gazetteer,” 1894, 145, it is 
recorded by Mr. L, de Niceville as having been 44 obtained by native collectors 
only, probably on the other side of the Passes, in Tibet.” 
China and Japan Species. — Aglais Connexa (Vanessa Connexa, Butler, P. Z. S. 
1881, p. 851. Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 258 (1893). Habitat. Japan.— Aglais 
Ghinensis (Vanessa Chinensis, Leech, Butt. China, etc.,p. 258, pi. 25, fig. 1, ? (1893). 
Habitat. W. China, 
Genus KANISKA. 
Imago.— -Wings rather short and broad. Male. Forewing triangular; costa 
much arched from near the base ; apex obtusely pointed ; exterior margin slightly 
oblique, scalloped, angulated outward below the apex and obtusely angled at end 
of lower median veinlet; costal vein extending to nearly two-thirds the margin ; first 
and second subcostal branches emitted before end of cell; upper discocellular short, 
middle discocellular concave, lower very oblique and slender. Hindwing triangular; 
anterior margin broadly lobate at the base and thence oblique to the end; exterior 
margin obliquely convex, scalloped, very slightly excavated below the apex, and with 
a broad caudate angle at end of upper median veinlet; anal angle lobate ; precostal 
vein bent outward near end; costal vein extending to apex; discocellulars outwardly 
oblique, lower slender. Body very robust; palpi ascending to level of vertex, flattened 
at the sides and beneath, thickly clothed with short coarse liairy-scales, with a dense 
ridge of longer hairy-scales on upper edge of second and third joint, edges beneath 
also hairy. Fore tibias and tarsi, in male, densely clothed with short hairy-scales 
