HESTIA. 6 



Key to the Genera of the Danainee. 



a. Claws furnished with paronychia and pulvilli. 



a'. Antennae filiform. Colour in both sexes con- 

 spicuously black and white Hestia, p. 3. 



b' . Antennas distinctly clavate. Colour in both 

 sexes dark, some shade of brown often glossed 

 with iridescent blue Euplgea, p. 22. 



b. Claws without paronychia or pulvilli Danais, p. 7. 



Genus HESTIA. 



Hestia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. 1816, p. 15. 

 Nectaria, pt., Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 2. 



Type, H. lyncea, Drury, from the Malay Peninsula. 



Bange. The Indo-Malayan Begion. 



Wings comparatively of large expanse, body long and slender. 

 Fore wing elongate and narrow or comparatively short and broad ; 

 dorsum slightly sinuous ; termen oblique, slightly concave below 

 the rounded apex ; costa widely arched ; cell more than half 

 length of wing ; upper discocellular short, middle inwardly 

 oblique, deeply concave, lower outwardly convex ; vein 11 anas- 

 tomosed with vein 12. Hind wing elongate, obovate, or ovate ; 

 termen more or less strongly arched ; cell more than half length 

 of wing ; discocellulars obtusely angulate one with the other. 

 Antennas long, filiform, scarcely clavate towards apex; palpi erect, 

 flattened outwardly, clothed with appressed scales, third joint 

 short, pointed, slightly porrect ; claws of intermediate and pos- 

 terior legs curved, furnished with paronychia and pulvilli. 



Larva. u Cylindrical, naked, banded with several transversely 

 alternating conspicuous colours ; furnished with four pairs of long 

 -filamentous processes or tentacula " {Moore). 



The forms of Hestia are very closely allied, but are divisible 

 into two groups : — 



The lyncea group, to which all but one of the Indian races 

 belong, characterized by an elongate narrow wing and large black 

 markings on the white ground-colour ; and the Javan belia group, 

 with wdngs broader in comparison with their length and small 

 black markings. The sole Indian representative of the latter 

 group is H. linteata, Butler, extending from the Malay Peninsula 

 into the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



Key to the forms of Hestia. 



A. Transverse black mark in cell of fore wing 



not extending beyond subcostal vein. 



a. This mark oval H. malabarica, p. 4. 



b. This mark zigzag, formed of two spots . H. linteata, p. 4. 



B. Transverse black mark in cell of fore wing 



extending beyond subcostal vein, 

 a. Hind wing long and narrow ; termen 

 compressed anteriorly, straight between 



veins 6 and 7 H. jasonia, p. 5. 



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