N YM PHA LINAE. (Group NYMPH ALIN A.) 
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recurved ; internal vein recurved from tlie base. Body stout, abdomen short; palpi 
porrect, compactly clothed with short appressed hairs at sides and beneath, second 
joint long and projecting half its length beyond the head, third joint short, pointed; 
fore tibiae and tarsi in the male somewhat scaly above, the sides very densely clothed 
with laterally spreading long coarse silky hairs, femora beneath with less numerous 
shorter hairs; fore tibiae and tarsi, in the female , somewhat scaly above, the sides 
less densely clothed with long coarse silky hairs, apical joints spined; antennae 
long, with a short thick cylindrical club; eyes hairy. 
Labva. —Cylindrical, delicately hairy; armed with a dorsal and five incomplete 
lateral rows of branched-spines; head slightly subquadate, vertex depressed in 
middle, regularly covered with minute tapering warts ; hairy. 
Pttpa. —Head-piece obtuse, bluntly cleft; thorax dorsally raised and angled 
near the middle ; abdomen dorsally arched, and with a dorsal row of conical points 
and lateral rows of lesser points. 
Type. —V. Atalanta. 
VANESSA INDICA (Plate 320, fig. 1, 1, a, b, £ $). 
Papilio Atalanta Indica, Herbst, Nat. Schmett. vii. p. 171, pi. 180, fig. 1, 2 (1794). 
Pyrameis Indica, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 185 (1871). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 50, pi. 27, fig. 2 
(1881). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 229, pi. 18, fig. 74, (1886). 
Papilio Atalanta , Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 84, fig. E, F (1775), nec Linn. 
Hamadryas decora Calliroe, Hiibner, Samuel Exot. Schmett. (1806-16). 
Pyrameis Calliroe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). Doubleday and Hewits. D. Lep. 
p. 204. Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 138 (1857). 
Vanessa Calliroe, Gray, Lep. of Nepal, p, 11 (1846). 
Pyrameis nubicola, Fruhst. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 151. 
Imago.— Male and female. Upperside. Forewing black, with a broad medial 
outwardly-oblique irregular red band, the lower portion of which is traversed by 
three irregular-shaped black patches ; basal area and posterior margin golden- 
brown ; an oblique inner subapical series of white quadrate spots and an outer 
subapical series of small white dentate spots. Hind wing golden-brown, with an 
olivescent or purplish gloss in certain lights; costal border greyish-ochreous; an 
outer marginal red band inwardly-bordered by black conically-lunate spots, and 
traversed by a row of black lunulate spots and outer marginal line. Cilia alternated 
with white. Underside. Forewing similar to upperside, except that the base of 
costa is striated with black, the apex broadly ochreous-brown and with two small 
ocelli below the white dentate spots, a partly blue and whitish marginal liue, a blue- 
