NYMPHALIDjE. — NYJIPHALIN^. KESTIXA. 



II — HESTINA YANKOWSKYI. i . Figs. 8, 4. 



Exp. $ . 2f- inckcs, $ . 8 inches. 



3Iale. Uppeeside. Brownish-grey, with very pale grecnisl i-whitt; lougitm linul 

 markings; anterior wings with a har across the cell, interrupted ])efore reacliing 

 the median nervm-e ; and a stripe above the submedian uervuio, liitid l)('yond the 

 middle ; beyond the cell is a series of five stripes, the two lowest interru[)ted, 

 the upper one in the middle, the other nearer the extremit}'. Hind margin 

 with a submarginal row of seven small pale spots, between the ncrvures, but 

 not extending above the subcostal nervules ; within the three uppermost is an 

 inner row of three larger spots. 



Posterior wings similar, but with longer stripes, none of which are inter- 

 rupted, between the nervures, and with a double row of submarginal fel)ots. 



Underside more distinctly greenish-white than above, especially on the 

 posterior wings, which are without markings and sparsely irrorated with grey ; 

 all the nervures narrowly black ; anterior wings with the median nervure and 

 its branches, the discocellular, and the submedian nervures broadly black ; two 

 connected black spots crossing the cell near its extremity, and some obsolete 

 blackish spots between the nervures on the disk, the most distinct being between 

 the two lower median nervules on the costal margin of the posterior wings ; the 

 space between the precostal nervure and the base is pale ochreous, with which 

 colour the abdominal area towards the base is also faintly tinged. Body as in 

 H. Nigrircna, but with smaller white spots and stripes on the head, pectus and 

 legs ; proboscis orange ; face greyish- white. 



The female resembles the male, but is paler grey on the upperside, and on 

 the underside there are hardly any dark markings on the anterior wings. 



Hab. Wychang. 



In the Collection of Heuley Grose Smith. 



Nearest to H. Suhviridis, Leech, but differs in being larger, and on the ujjj^erside both win^js 

 are lighter and the spots less defined. On the underside there are fewer dark markings than in 

 II. Suhviridis, especially ou the posterior wings, the general aspect of which is an uniform sordid 

 greenish-white, with the pale markings on the upperside very faintly distinguishable. In H. Siib- 

 riridis there is no basal ochreous space on the posterior wings. In the asjiect of the underside 

 this species approaches more closely to H. Viridis, Leech; but it is a smaller insect, and on the 

 upperside it is quite distinct from H. Viridis. 



I am indebted to Mr. Cooke of Museum Street for the possession of this and the other 

 Butterflies figured in this Plate ; through him I have been enabled to acquire a fine series of 

 Central and Western Chinese Butterflies (comprising many of the new species captured by Mr. 

 Pratt on his recent expedition) which were collected by Captain Yankowsky, whose death I hare 

 to record with great regret. — H. G. S. 



