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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA . 
above and laterally with very fine long silky-outspread hairs; femur with shorter 
hairs beneath. Fore tibise, in female, clothed less thickly with short hairy-scales 
above and laterally with fewer and shorter fine hairs, tarsus more roughly scaly and 
with a few short fine hairs only, terminal joints quite apical, their lateral spines 
short, but stout. Antennas with a stout cylindrical club. Eyes hairy. 
Larva. —[Haronica]. Somewhat robust; segments armed with longitudinal 
rows of branched-spines ; anal segment slightly humped. 
Pupa. —Robust; abdominal segments with two dorsal rows of small pointed 
tubercles; thorax angular; head-piece produced and bifid. 
Type. —K. Canace. 
Note. —The shape of the wings in this genus is similar to that of Polygonia , as 
is also the character and position of the markings on the underside, the markings of 
the upperside are, however, very different from those in Polygonia . 
KANISKA CANACE (Plate 315, fig. 1, la, <? ? ). 
Papilio Canace, Johanssen, Amsen. Acad. vi. p. 406 (1764). Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. ed. p. 779 (1767). 
Vanessa Canace , de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 231 (1886). Mackinnon, Journ. Bombay Nat. 
Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 375. 
Nymphalis Canace , Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. App. p. 648 (1871). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich deep blue-black, somewhat glossy, the basal area 
suffused with dark sap-green ; cilia black, alternated with white. Forewing with a 
pale greyish-blue short outwardly-oblique upper-discal band and a transverse outer- 
discal broad lunular recurved band gradually decreasing in width upward, being 
slender and brokenly speckled above the median and ending in a small subapical 
angular spot on the costa; in some specimens a black dot is present in the two 
lower lunules ; outer border with two very ill-defined marginal blue-speckled slender 
lunular lines ; costal edge striated with pale blue. Hindwing with a transverse outer 
discal broad pale greyish-blue band gradually decreasing in width upward and bear¬ 
ing an outwardly-placed series of very small black spots between the veinlets ; the 
two outer marginal blue-speckled lines ill-defined. Underside beautifully variegated, 
the ground-colour being more or less bright brownish-ochreous, the basal two-thirds 
prominently edged by a discal black zigzag line, and the outer lunular borders dark 
greyish-brown or sap-brown, and numerously covered throughout, except at the 
apices, with short black, violet-grey, and ochreous strigse ; normal cell-marks with 
brownish-ochreous or grey centres ; a small ochreous-white spot at lower end of each 
cell, the one on the hindwing being the largest and dentate; an outer discal row of black 
dots, those on the forewing enclosed more or less in a circular area of the ground- 
