10 Mr. A. G. Butler on a New Hestina. 



at pallide olivaceis ; corpus nigrum^ albo-maculatum : 

 proboscis fulva. 



Exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 10. 



Habitat in Oriente (regione speciali incognita) . 



This beautiful little species is most nearly allied to 

 Hestina Mena of Moore ; it is probably intermediate 

 between that species and the assimilis of Linnaeus, and 

 is smaller than any species yet described ; in general form 

 perhaps it is most like Folder's Japonica {Diagoras, 

 Hewits.) . 



The collection from which this butterfly was obtained 

 was made in various localities ; it contained several 

 species from the Continent of Iiidia, and others from 

 some of the Eastern islands in which local modifications 

 of Danais juventa occur. On the mimetic theory, the 

 Hestina ought to inhabit the same country as the species 

 which it mimics. A specimen in the Hope Collection is 

 labelled ''E. Indies.'' 



