NYMPHALIN^E. (Group N YMF IIA LINA.) 
95 
Battakana (Vanessa Battakana, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1895, 
p. 428, d ?. Habitat. N.-E. Sumatra .—-Kaniska Benguetana (V anessa Benguetana, 
Semper, Beis. Phil. Lep. p. 122, pi. 21, fig. 11, 12, o (1888). Habitat. Luzon, 
Philippines. 
Genus POLYGONIA. 
Polygonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 36 (1816). Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 309 (1889). 
Kirby, Allen’s Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 86 (1894). 
Comma , Rennie, Consp. Butt. p. 8 (1832). 
Grapta, Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer. iv. p. 292 (1837). Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 12 (1850). 
Stainton, Manual Brit. Butt. i. p. 40 (1857). Staudinger et Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p, 124 
(1887). 
Imago.— Male. Forewing somewhat elongated and narrow, subtriangular ; costa 
slightly arched from near the base and thence straight to near the end, the apex 
pointed ; exterior margin slightly oblique and anteriorly produced obliquely-outward 
below the apex into a prominent broadly-projecting angle, below which the margin 
is concave and sinuous, and with a broader projecting angle at end of the lower 
median veinlet; posterior margin much recurved; costal vein extending to more 
than half the margin; first subcostal branch emitted at about one-fourth before end 
of the cell, second at one-eighth before ; discocellulars oblique, upper discocellular 
extremely short, middle concave, lower discocellular straight, slender; median 
veinlets wide apart; submedian vein slightly recurved. Hindwing short, broad, 
triangular; anterior margin basally lobate and slightly arched towards the apex ; 
exterior margin very oblique, sinuous, excavated below the apex, broadly angular 
at end of first subcostal, and with a prominent projecting rounded caudate-angle at 
end of upper median veinlet; anal angle also projected ; precostal vein slightly bent 
or curved outward near tip ; cell closed by a slender discocellular veinlet. Body 
very stout; palpi porrect, extending two-thirds beyond the front, compressed at the 
sides and beneath, densely clothed throughout with rather short hair-scales, the 
middle and lower joint slightly fringed beneath with fine long hairs, and the middle 
joint above more densely with stouter hairs; fore tibiae and tarsi, in the male , laxly 
scaly above, the sides rather thickly clothed with laterally-spreading long, very fine 
silky hairs ; femora beneath with less numerous fine silky hairs ; fore tibiae and 
tarsi, in the female , laxly scaly above, the sides less thickly clothed with shorter 
silky hairs, apical joints with short stout spines ; antennae with a short stout club; 
eyes hairy. 
Larva.— Head subquadrate, minutely hairy, vertex slightly depressed in middle, 
each lobe surmounted with a short tubercular horn, the tip of which is set with hard 
