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inches. This form has a somewhat general resemblance to the species of the genus 

 Amesia, a day-flying moth, of the family Zygasnidse, and of which it is probably a 

 mimic. Expanse, c? 2,-o to 3^^, ? 3 to Sj-q inches. 



Habitat. — Nepal; Sikkim ; Upper Assam ; Khasias ; Burma; Upper Siam. 



Distribution. — Numerous specimens of both sexes of this species were taken 

 by the late General G. Ramsay whilst Government Resident in Nepal. Of these 

 we possess several males and polymorphic females. " The Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, has specimens from Nepal, Sibsagar in Assam taken by Mr. S. E. Peal, 

 and one female from Shillong, taken by Dr. Johnson, is in Major Marshall's 

 collection " (Butt. Ind. ii. 47). " The males are not very common in Sikkim, and 

 are found at low elevations in the summer. The females are very variable, and 

 appear to be in process of mimicking some species of Danainse " (de Niceville, 

 Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 134). According to Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 839) 

 it is " not uncommon in Sikkim before and after the rains, but local ; the female, 

 however, is much rarer." In Colonel 0. Swinhoe's collection is a female (of the 

 form No. 4) from Cherra Punji. Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in the Naga Hills 

 (P.Z.S. 1891, 273). Dr. N. Manders, in his Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Shan 

 States, Burma (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 521), records its occurrence" rarely at elevations 

 of 3000 feet, males only being taken." It was also obtained in the Upper Mekong 

 Valley Shan States, Siam, by Mr. Richard Roberts, C.E. 



Chinese allied Species of Sephisa. — Sephisa princeps (Apatura princeps, Fixsen, 

 Rom. Mem. Lep. iii. p. 289, pi. 13, fig. 7 (1887). Leech, Butt. China, etc., p. 151, 

 pi. 14, figs. 5, 6, (? ? (1892). Syn. Apatura Cauta, Leech, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 417, pi. 35, 

 fig. 2. Sephisa albomacula, Leech, Butom. 1890, p. 190. Habitat. China. Corea. 



Genus HESTINA. 



Hestina, Westwood, Gen.'. D. Lep. p. 281 (1850). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 160 

 (1857). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 55 (1886). Staudinger and Schiitts, Lep. Exot. 

 p. 133 (1887). 



Hestina (sect. 2), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 25 (1861). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing elongate-triangular ; costa very slightly arched, apex 

 broad and obtusely rounded, exterior margin concave in the middle, uneven, posterior 

 margin long and straight ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end 

 of the cell ; discocellulars short ; the cell open. Eindicing short, triangularly- 

 ovate ; exterior margin convex, scalloped ; precostal vein straight and with a 

 lengthened bifurcate tip ; subcostal branches and radial emitted close together : 

 cell open. Body robust; palpi laxly clothed with fine hairs, apical joint rather long, 

 pointed ; antennae slender, with a well formed club ; eyes naked. Sexes similar. 



Type. — H. Nama. 



