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by Mr. L. de Niceville, also in its habits, " flying or soaring about in open spaces on 

 the borders of forests." 



Indo-Malayan allied Species of Hestina. — Hestina mimetica, Butler, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 426. Snellen, Tijd. voor Bntom. 1894, p. 67, pi. 3, fig. 1, c?. 

 Habitat. Java. — Hestina Carolina, Snellen, Tijd. voor Entom. 1890, p. 218. 

 Habitat. Sumatra. 



Genus PARHESTINA. 



Hestina (sect. 1), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 25 (1861). 



Hestina (part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 55 (1886). 



Diagora, Snellen, Tijd. voor Entom. 1894, p. 67.* 



Imago. — Male. Foreicing elongated, triangular ; costa more arched than in typical 

 Hestina (Nama), a^iex narrower; exterior margin less concave, almost even; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second at one-sixth 

 beyond the end ; discocellulars somewhat longer. Hindwing broadly ovate, apex 

 and exterior margin very convex, exterior margin slightly uneven and somewhat 

 angulate in the middle ; precostal vein short, straight, truncate at the tip ; radial 

 emitted at some distance from base of the second subcostal. Palpi shorter, more 

 compactly clothed, apical joint short and thick ; antenniB shorter, club shorter ; 

 eyes hairy. Sexes similar. 



Lakva. — Mr. J. J. "Walker, R.N., describes that of P. nigrivena, of Hong Kong, 

 as being " slug-like, smooth, green, with two branched horns on the head." 



Type. — P. persimilis. 



Mimicry. — All the species are more or less mimetic, and the typical species of 

 this genus are probably mimics of certain Limnaine butterflies of the genus Tirumala, 

 others also having a general resemblance to the Pierine genus Metaporia. 



Habits. — According to Mr. L. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. ii. 66) " they are not 

 very strong on the wing or rapid in flight, and they frequent glades in forests and 

 orchards at moderate elevations." 



PARHESTINA PERSIMILIS (Plate 201, figs. 1, la, b, <? ? ). 



Hestina persimilis, "Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 281 (1850). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, 

 i. p. 161 (1857). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 58 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blue-black, with pale olivescent-white markings. 

 Forewing with a short claviform olivescent-white streak within base of the cell, a 

 shorter angulate bar across the middle and two very short pointed spots at the end 



* Inadmissible ; being the name of a synonym of one of the species included in the genus. Moreover 

 the name Diagoras has been previously used. 



