1883. J MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPtiCEINA. 217 



Hestia leuconoe, Doubleday & Hewitsou, Gen. D. Lep. p. 95 

 pi, 13. f. 2 (1847) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 469. 

 Hab. Philippines (Mindanao) ; Borneo. 



7. Nectaria godmani. 



Idcea godmani, Oberthiir, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 230. 

 Hab. Sangir Island. 



8. Nectaria clara. 



Hestia clara, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 469. 

 Hab. Tamsui, North Formosa (Hobson) ; 1 Java ; Billiton. 



Sabalassa, n. g. 

 Fore wing in both sexes much produced and rounded at the 

 apex ; exterior margin very oblique, and in the male very abruptly 

 concave in the middle, thus giving a diifereut shape to this wing, as 

 compared with Nectaria {Idea), though approaching that of Hestia. 

 In pattern of markings it similates to Nectaria. 



Sabalassa electra. 



Hestia electi-a. Semper, Verb. Ver. Nat. Unt. Hamburg, iii.p. 106 

 (1878). 



Male and female. Yellowish : fore wing much produced and 

 rounded at the apex ; veins and cell-streaks black ; a black, irregular, 

 angulated patch in middle of the cell and a broad lunular patch at 

 its end ; a narrow, waved-bordered, marginal band traversed by a row 

 of yellowish spots ; a discal transverse zigzag band, a small spot 

 below the cell between middle and lower medians, and a pyriform 

 spot between median and submedian. Hind wing with black veins 

 and cell-streaks ; a waved-bordered marginal band traversed by 

 yellowish spots, a discal series of sagittate marks, the lower marks 

 being shghtly confluent with the veins at their upper angles. 



Expanse, d H, ? 6|. 



Hab. PhiUppines (East Mindanao). In coll. G. Semper. 



• Grenus Hestia. 



Hestia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15 (1816). 



Wings seu.idiaphanous : fore wing long, narrow, somewhat fusi- 

 form ; costa much arched j cell narrow ; first subcostal vein emitted 

 at one fifth before end of the cell, and joined to costal near its end by 

 a short cross branch ; upper discocellular inwardly oblique, deeply 

 concave in the middle, lower curved outward ; upper radial from 

 near subcostal, lower radial from below the angle in the middle of 

 discocellulars ; submedian with a short, slender, lower basal veiulet. 

 Hind wing fusiform, narrow ; cell narrow ; veins mostly straight. 

 Antennae slender; apical joint of palpi prominent. 



Tyj)e H. lynceus. 



1. Hestia lynceus. 



Papilio lynceus, Drury, III. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 7. f. 1 (1773). 



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