14 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



A Butterfly measuring six and a half inches across the fore 

 wings, which are rather long and narrow. It is light slaty-grey, 

 with many rows of rather large round or oval black spots. 



Mr. Moore considers the Bornean form to represent Dairy's 

 species, and those occurring in the neighbouring countries to 

 be distinct. The locality given by Drury, " Island of Johanna, 

 near Madagascar," is certainly erroneous. 



The genus Hestia includes the largest species of Danaina, 

 and may be recognised by its size (5 to 7 inches across the 

 wings), its long slender antennae, which are scarcely thickened 

 at the extremity, and its long, grey semi-diaphanous wings, with 

 black nervures, and rows of more or less connected round or 

 sagittate spots and stripes. The genus is confined to the Eastern 

 Archipelago and the neighbouring portions of the Asiatic con- 

 tinent, extending from India, the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, 

 Burmah, and the Malay Peninsula, through the islands as far as 

 the Philippines and New Guinea. These Butterflies have an 

 elegant sailing flight, and they are known to the European in- 

 habitants of the countries in which they are found as " Ghosts," 

 11 Spectres," and " Sylphs." 



The best known larva is that of Hestia malabarica (Moore), 

 which is furnished with four pairs of fleshy processes. It is 

 ringed with black and yellowish-white, and spotted with red on 

 the belly. The food-plant has not been recorded. The known 

 pupae of Hestia are brown, speckled with black, and are much 

 longer than those of the other Danaina, more resembling those 

 of the Vanessa in shape. 



Mr. Moore divides the old genus Hestia into three : Nee- 

 taria^ Dalman, in Billberg, Enum. Ins., p. 76, 1820. Type, 

 Nectaria idea, Clerck, from Amboina; Sabalassa, Moore, P. Z. S., 

 1883, p. 217. Type, Sabalassa electra^ Semper, Verh. Ver. 

 Hamburg, iii., p. 106, 1878, from the Philippines; and true 

 Hestia of Hiibner. Type, Hestia lyncea^ Drury, from Borneo,. 



