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LEPIDOPTEUA INDICA. 
China, etc., i. p. 267, pi. 25, fig. 4, cL Habitat. Japan.— Polygonia Feritoni (Yan. 
Fentoni, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 281 (1878). Habitat . Japan.— Polygonia lunigera 
(Van. lunigera, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 850. Habitat. Japan.— Polygonia 
Hamigera (Yan. Hamigera, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 92. Habitat. Japan. 
■—•Polygonia gigantea (Grapta gigantea, Leech, Ent. 1890, p. 189 ; Butt. China, etc., 
i. p. 268, pi. 25, fig. 6, ? (1898). (Wet-season form.) Syn. Polygonia extensa 
(Grapta C. album, var. extensa, Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 265, pi. 25, fig. 5, 9 
(1898). ( Dry-season form.) Habitat , W. and C, China, 
Genus VANESSA. 
Vanessa , Fabricius, Syst. Gloss (Illiger’s Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807). Latreille, Consid. Gen. p. 440 
(1810). Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 96 (1825). Scudder, 
Syst. Bey. Amer. Butt. p. 2 (1872) ; id. Butt. E. if. S. i. p. 430 (1889). 
Pyrameis , Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 202(1849). 
Stephens, Catal. B. Lep. B. M. p. 11 (1850). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 49 (1880). Staudinger 
et Sehatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 125 (1887). Kirby, Allen’s N. H. Butt. i. p. 96 (1894). 
Eassaris, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. ii. id. Index, p. 4 (1816-21). 
Ammiralis , Rennie, Consp. Butt. p. 10 (1832). 
Cynthia , Stephens, Illust. B. Ent. Haust. i. p. 47 (1827). Rennie, Consp. p. 10 (1832). Westwood, 
Brit. Butt. p. 56 (1841). Stainton, Manual Brit. Butt. i. p. 36 (1857). 
Phanessa, Sodoffsk. Bull. Mosc. x, p. 80 (1837). 
Neopyrameis , Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i, p. 434 (1889), 
Imago. —Male. Forewing triangular ; costa slightly arched, exterior margin 
oblique and slightly angular below the apex, soalloped; posterior margin straight; 
costal vein extending to two-thirds the margin; first and second subcostal branches 
emitted at equal distances close before end of the cell, third at nearly half length 
beyond, fourth and fifth at two-thirds beyond; upper discocellular very short, middle 
short and curved outward, lower discocellular long, slender, recurved obliquely out¬ 
ward ; radials from angle near subcostal and end of middle discocellular ; cell broad ; 
middle median emitted at one-fifth before lower end of the oell, lower at one-half its 
length; submedian vein almost straight. Hindwing short, triangular; exterior 
margin convex, scalloped, abdominal margin long; costal vein extending to apex; 
precostal vein bent abruptly outward, emitted at a short distance beyond base of 
subcostal; first subcostal branch emitted at two-thirds from its base; upper dis- 
coeellular slightly convexly-oblique, lower slender, very oblique and straight; radial 
from end of upper discocellular ; cell broad ; two upper median branches from end 
of cell, lower at one-third before its end and opposite second subcostal; submedian 
