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Genus HASTINA. 

 Hi.stina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 260 (1888). 



Type, H. cceruleolineata, Moore. 



Range. Japan ; Sikhim. 



Palpi minute and hardly reaching beyond the frons ; antennae 

 simple ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing with the 

 apex falcate ; the outer margin excised from apex to vein 4, where 

 it is much excurved; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, and 11 anastomosing 

 strongly with them to form the areole. Hind wing with the 

 margin crenulate ; vein 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 



SECT. I. Both wings with vein 3 from the cell ; hind wing with 

 the margin produced to points at veins 4 and 6, and deeply 

 excised between those points. 



3849. Hastina caeruleolineata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 260; C. $ S. 



no. 3071. 



Dark red-brown, suffused with 

 purplish grey ; both wings with some 

 bright blue scales on basal and 

 outer areas ; waved ante- and post- 

 medial dark and bright blue lines, 

 the latter excurved between veins 2 

 Fig. 197. and 4 of each wing. 



Hastina ccerideolineata, $. \. Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 22 milliin. 



3850. Hastina ornata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 643; C. # S. no. 3978. 



J . Dark grey. Fore wing with broad yellow antemedial band 

 narrowing below the cell, with waved edges and with indistinct 

 waved scarlet lines on it ; a very irregular postmedial yellow band 

 with scarlet edges, widest at costa, expanding again at middle and 

 very narrow towards inner margin. Hind wing with some scarlet 

 at base ; a scarlet and yellow postmedial sinuous band obsolescent 

 towards costa ; traces of four waved dark lines. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 26 milliin. 



SECT. II. Both wings with veins 3, 4 stalked ; hind wing with the 

 margin produced to long points at the veins. 



3851. Hastina gemmifera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 644; C. # S. 



no. 3931. 



c? . Head, thorax, and 1st segment of abdomen black-brown, 

 irrorated with silvery scales ; abdomen ochreous, with white seg- 

 mental lines, the extremity brown. Fore wing dark brown, irro- 

 rated with silver ; the apical area white ; a crimson medial baud 

 widest at vein 4 and inner margin ; a submarginal series of white 

 specks, situated on a diffused brown band on the apical white area, 



