22 LEPIDOPTERA I^^DICA. 



underside with the veins and markings black, the markings correspondingly disposed 

 and similarly shaped as in E. Malabarica. Both wings, however, have the veins 

 more slenderlj' black lined, and all the markings are smaller, being about half the 

 size of those in that species. 



Expanse, 4i to 4| inches. 



Habitat. — North Kanara ; South Konkan. 



Distribution. — Occurs in North Kanara, also, according to Mr. De Niceville, in 

 the northern portions of the Western Ghats in the South Konkan, and on the Goanese 

 frontier. It appears to be common towards the end of March on the wooded Passes 

 in the S. Konkan ; a number of them were found [by Mr. G. Vidal] on the Onomed 

 and Koessi Passes at about 1600 to 1700 feet elevation in that month. Specimens 

 were captured at Supa, N. Kanara, in January and February by Mr. Wise. 



HESTIA JASONIA (Plate 3, Fig. 1, la S, lb ? )• 



Restia Jasonia, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, p. 87, pi. 42, fig. 1, ^ (1848). Butler, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1867, p. 470. Marshall and De Niceville, Butteiflies of India, &e., p. 27, 

 plate 3, fig. 1, c? (1882). Moore, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 219. 



Nectaria Jasonia, Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, 1, p. 3; plate 1, fig. 1 (1880). 



Imago. — Male and female. Wings semi-transparent, of variable tint of colour in 

 both sexes, some specimens being greyish-white, others more or less fuliginous- 

 white, and some pale fuliginous-brown ; all the veins with their immediate borders, 

 and the markings black. Forewing with a black basal costal border, merging into 

 an oblique irregular broad band across the cell ; the cell traversed by three slender 

 lines from base to end ; a short streak on middle of the costa ; an acutely-angled 

 zigzag broad streak across end of the cell ; a large inner discal spot which touches 

 the base of the middle and the lower median veinlets; an outwardly-oblique crutch- 

 shaped mark below the base of lower median veinlet, which extends by a lengthened 

 streak to the base of the median vein ; a discal series of seven angulated spots, of 

 which the three lower are quadrangular, and the angles of the two lowest generally 

 (and especially in the dark-tinted specimens) touching the veins and the inner spots ; 

 the third spot — situated between the upper and middle median veinlets — always being 

 naiTOwly quadrate aud inwardly-oblique in position, the three upper spots are the 

 longest and partly coalesced ; a submarginal series of biconical spots terminating 

 outward in a dilated streak at end of each vein, between which is a marginal row of 

 conical spots. Hindiving with three slender black lines within the cell, the upper 

 ones starting from the round central spot ; two inner discal small spots, of which the 

 lower is a duplex one, being divided by the black streak extending from the base 

 between the median and submedian veins ; a discal series of eight angulated-oval 

 spots, two of which are between the costal and subcostal veins ; a submarginal series 



