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wings, the dark blue lustre of their second half, and the purplish blue spots 

 along the posterior margin ". 



W. J. Neighbourhood of the Pelabouan Ratou or Wijnkoops Bay (+ 150). 



C. J. Touban (4) on the north coast. 



E. J. Berbek (i 3) in the prov. Kediri ; Tengger mountains (2000) {FitiJislorfei). 



Genus HESTIA Hiibn., Dbd., and Hew. 



The Hestias are likewise slowly hovering butterflies but they do not fly 

 as low as most Euploeas; they frequent wooded country but only where the 

 sunlight is able to penetrate. According to Moore one of the species from 

 British India is migratory ; this is not the case with the Javanese ones, whereof 

 the only species which is not actually rare does not, moreover, occur in great 

 numbers. 



I. Belia Westw. 



According to Fruhstorfer butterflies of the genus Hestia are called by 

 the Javanese koupou kertas, i. e. paper butterflies. He must mean that these 

 butterflies are so designated in Java, for koupou kerias, or rather koupou 

 ko7tpou karias, is not Javanese but Malay; I have never heard the term. 



According to the observation of Captain H. Macpherson, communicated 

 by Moore, with reference to the Indian species called Hestia Malabarica by 

 him, the egg is " deposited singly on the under surface of a leaf and is white, 

 oval, about Vie inch long by V32 broad, attached to the leaf by one of the 

 small ends and marked with about twenty-two longitudinal rows of hexagonal 

 indentations". They are said to hatch after 6 or 7 days. The young larva 

 is stated to remain mostly on the under side of the leaf, eating small holes 

 into it and only subsequently proceeding to eat the leaf from the margin inwards. 

 They are said to be full-grown in from 20 to 25 days. According to one of 

 the figures, given by Moore of this caterpillar, it is evidently closely allied to 

 that of H. Lynceus Drury. 



Westwood, Cab. Or. Entom., p. 1^, pi. 37> 



jig. 2 (1848) Hestia Belia. 



Snellen van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. v. Enl., 



Ill, p. 43, //. 3 (i860) Idea Hypermnestra van Jasonia. 



