NYMPHALID^. DANATN^E. HESTIA. 29 



with minute black scales. H. againarschana, it is true, to judge from Felder's figure of it, has 

 the hindvving a little less pointed, the anterior discal spots on the forewing obviously more 

 elongated, with more black in the cell and behind it, and the markings generally larger than in 

 //. Jasonia, and it is, as might have been expected, more closely related to the present speci- 

 men than to any other species ; but, large series of specimens having shown us how extremely 

 constant the different species or local races of Hestia are, we cannot unite the two, and we 

 think that the ditiferences they present are in all probability due to a difference of station, and 

 that Heifer may have obtained the specimen that formed the type of Felder's species on a 

 different island. All the Lepidoptera received of late years from the Andamans have been 

 obtained in the immediate vicinity of the settlement at Port Blair, in an area therefore which 

 is a very small fractional part indeed of the Andaman group of Islands, which extends through 

 nearly four degrees of latitude. • * * The specimens of IJestia which Hewitson, in his list of 

 Butterdies from the Andamans (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xiv, 1874, 

 p. 356) considers to be specimens of H. agamarschana remarkable for their dark colour, doubt- 

 less belong to the species now described." 



The type specimen, which was obtained by Colonel T. Cadell, V.C, is in the Indian Museum 

 Calcutta. Another specimen, taken subsequently by Mr. A. R. de Roepstorff, also in the 

 vicinity of Port Blair, on the i6th April, is in Major Marshall's collection. There are also a 

 large series of both sexes of this species, collected by Mr. de Roepstorff, in the Indian 

 Museum ; they shew no variation whatever from the type, except in one or two specimens 

 having an additional spot on the black streak in the interno-median area of the hindvving. 

 The plate shews the upperside only of a male .specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 

 6, Eestia hadeni, W.-M. & de N. (Plate IV, Fig. 3 ? ). 

 H. /irt</f«/, Wood.Mason and de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. xli.\, part ii, p. 242, pi. xiii, fig. 2 

 (1880), female. 



Habitat : Bassein, British Burma. 



Expanse: 5-18 inches; length of forewing, 2*54. 



Description : " Female : Closely allied to H. cadelli. Wings, above pure fleckless white, 

 marked and veined with black of a fuscous tint, with the marginal, subniarginal, and all but 

 the two posterior (which are subcoalescent with the marginal band) of the discal series of spots 

 in the forewing, but with the marginal and submarginal series only in the hindwing completely 

 run together, so that only the inner portions of the outlines of the innermost series of the 

 coalesced spots are in either case still discernible, and so as to form a very broad outer border 

 of black to both the wings. Foreiving, broader and shorter, being less than twice as lono- as 

 broad, the extreme length of the cell bearing the same relation to the submedian nervure and 

 to the less deeply emarginate outer margin ; with the spot at the base of the second median 

 nervule smaller and free of the nervules, as also is the discoidal cellular spot at its posterior 

 extremity ; the curved club-shaped mark in the interno-median area much as in H. agamars- 

 chana, but not connected by a black streak with the subcoalescent marginal spot beyond it ; 

 the outer black border with a clouded white spot in the first median interspace more or 

 less distinctly separating the second discal black spot off from the band ; and the black inner 

 marginal space longitudinally streaked with clouded white. I/hichaing broader, with its un- 

 dulated outer margin still more broadly rounded ; the spot in the discoidal cell smaller, and 

 the spots around it also rather smaller and free of the black outer border, though exhibiting a 

 tendency to coalesce with it in front of the second median nervule. Underside of a less pure 

 white than above, marked and veined with fuscous. Tliorax more conspicuously marked with 

 greyish-white than in H. cadelli, in which these marks are almost effaced, but this character, as 

 also the differences in the proportions, and the less obvious emargination of the outer margin of 

 the wings, may be sexual." The male is as yet unknown. 



Two specimens, both females, agreeing in every respect with one another, were obtained 

 by Mr. Algernon Haden at Bassein ; no other instance of its capture is on record. The type 

 specimen is in the Indian Museum at Calcutta ; the figure of it shews the upperside only.- 

 For the use of this well-executed plate, on which the two preceding species aie represented, we 



