NYMPHALID.E. NYMPHALIN.E, HESTINA. 55 



"Larva smooth, head small and surmounted by two black spined-processes projecting 

 in front, last segment with two green naked processes ; pale yellowish-green with a dark green 

 dorsal and two lateral bands; face black streaked. Feeds on Celtis lycodoxylon. Pupa green, 

 with a pointed angle on middle of thorax and on basal segment of abdomen ; head attenuated, 

 with two points." (^Rloore, 1. c.) 



In Ceylon it is " common on forest ground in the hills about S,ooo feet near Newera Eliya. 

 Frequently seen basking in the road" (HiUchison). In liorsfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. 

 E. I. Museum A. parysatis is recorded from Canara, but most probably this species is meant. 

 The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses specimens from Ootacamund (^Hampson) and Pirmad, 

 North Travancore, 2,000 feet (Doherty). 



The genus Eulacwa contains but a single species, which hitherto has not been recorded 

 from India, though specimens have been taken near our border in Perak. Eulacura is nearly 

 allied to ^/^/rtm; but the male entirely lacks the brilliant blue gloss which is such a pro- 

 minent feature in the males of typical species of that genus. The description of the genus 

 and sole species are given below.* 



Genus 58.— HBSTIITA, Westwood. (Plate XXII). 



Diadema, section 6, Hestina, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 281 (1850) ; Hesiina, Felder, Neues 

 Lep., p. 25, n. 58 (1861). 



" Discoidal cell of both wings open. Second subcostal nervule of the FOREWING arising 

 close to the origin of the upper disco-cellular nervule." {_Westwood, 1. c.) 



Body, moderately robust. Head, moderately large, tufted in front, hairy above, usually 

 marked with white spots. Eyes, prominent, naked. Haustellum, yellow. Palpi, porrected, 

 divergent, the tips convergent. Antenna, exactly half the length or rather less than half the 

 length of the forewing, terminating in a distinct gradually-formed club. A^^ri, marked with 

 small white spots. Thorax, moderately robust, very hairy, Abdomen, slender, somewhat long. 

 Forewing, rather elongated, triangular. Costal margin moderately arched ; outer margin 

 slightly sinuate, emarginate, rather shorter than the inner margin ; inner margin straig'ht. 

 First subcostal nervule in the typical species given off from the costal nervure some little 



7iT;.V^ ;A JI 7 \: I A-d ■ ^'* ■ ^■"' • '"•> ^'.^'•''"^•, i^iop. iuaiay., p. 99 (is»2). Uescription : " Nearly 



A Ah^^ ■ ' "i' differing in Us comparatively longer and more graceful fore and its shorter and mo e 

 rounded hindwing : antennae longer more slender, the club somewhat compressed laterally ; median ner3e 

 of hindwmg longer, and consequently second and third median branches shorter. Abdomen of male with anal 

 valves composed of an upper hopd-like lip, fringed externally with short hair-scales, and sheathing the penis 

 which IS shorter and more spine-shaped than in A^iura, and projects obliquely downwards between two 



.„>.=..w^5,H=.pcuu,,.um.,bumcw,iaccurvea, tapering, norny nooks, about a line and a half in length Tvoical 



Eulacura osteria. A^atura osieria, WasUvooA, Gm^Timrn. "Ltn., \o\. li, -p qo"; n lo note (iR<aS • p«r^ 

 ceuraosteria, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871. p. 726 ; Eulacura osteria. Butler, Trans Linn. Soc. Zo^oeT 

 second series, vol. 1, p. 541, n. i (1877) ; id. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. too, n. i, pi xii, fi<r. =; male ■ 6 fe.nlll- 

 (1882. Habitat: Perak, Province Wellesley, Malacca. Singapore, Ja^a, Borneo! ' E°xPANs^t :!/<;/ 2 6 

 /^«W^, 2 5 inches. Description: " Male ; Uppbrside dark glossy fuscou.. ^^.<r7t-/«^ with a discal oblfque 

 series of five white spots, he uppermost and smallest situated above the third median nirvule, remaining four 

 larger, contiguous and only separated by the median nervules and submedian nervure. Hindwirg^ with a corre/ 

 ponding but broaoer oblique series of subquadrate spots, which form a continuous fascia, although apparentiv 

 divided by the nurvules and terminating about middle of abdominal margin, the basal two-thirds of which is 

 pale greyish : a submarginal row of obscure rounded fuscous spots placed between the nervules, and two narrow 

 fuscous marginal lines. Underside pale silvery bluish, ^<.M w/«°-.s- crossed by the pale discal oblique series 

 ot spots, forming a more continuous fascia than above, and silvery white inwardly margined with ochraceons • 

 two narrow ochraceous fascia; crossing cell oi forauing : outer margins of ^^/// loings and ape.K oi forewi'li'^ 

 bordered and suffused with ochraceous, and two ocellated spots (ochraceous with bluish and black centres) the 

 first on forezmng situated between the second and first median nervules, the second spot situated bet'ween 

 the second and first median nervules of the hindiving. Body and legs more or less concolourous with win4 

 b EMALE Pale orownish. Forewng with two dark fascix crossing cell and with a very broad pale submareiSai 

 fascia, the outer margm of which is denoted by a series of lunulate white spots, and the inner margin-which is 

 directed outwardly from subcostal nervure to third median nervule and then obliquely reflexed-il marked bv a 

 series of irregular white spots; and an indistinct ocellated spot between the second and first median nervules 

 Htndwing with a narrow pale oblique macular fascia (continuous to the inner margin of the broad fascia of the 

 torewing) obscurely terminating about middle of submedian nervure ; an ocellated spot between second .ind 

 hrst median nervules, and a waved and strongly lunulated ochraceous submarginal f.iscia, inwardly enclos'in? 

 obconical fuscous spots, exxepting between the second and first median nervules and from thence to anal anele- 

 two tuscous marginal lines and basal area of abdominal margin pale .is in male. Undersidh a little darker 

 and more ochraceous than in male, other markings sener.-illy the same." {Distant, i. c.) 



