HESTINA. 



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ground-colour in the female white, not ochraceous, shaded with 

 dusky black. 



Exp. 6 2 as in race angustata. 



Hob. The Andaman s. 



Genus HESTINA. 



Hestina, Westwood, in Dblday., Westw. $ Hew. Gen. DL Lep. 1850, 

 p. 281 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 55 ; Moore, Lep. lnd. iii, 

 1896-99, p. 31. 



Type, H. nama, Dblday., from the Himalayas. 



Range. The Himalayas; Assam; Burma and Tenasserim, ex- 

 tending eastwards to China and south to Sumatra and Java. 



(5 $ . Closely allied to Apatura, with the cells of both fore and 

 hind wing open and the venation somewhat as in that genus ; the 

 fore wing is, however, proportionately longer and narrower, the 

 apex ancftermen of the hind wing more rounded, vein 9 in the 

 fore wing emitted closer to the apex of the wing, veins 10 and 11 

 closer to°the base of 7, and vein 12 distinctly shorter than in that 

 genus. Hind wing: veins 5, 6, 7 very closely approximate at 

 base. Eyes naked. 



c> 65 Hestina nama, Doubleday (Diadeina), A. M. N. H. xvi, 1845, 

 15 939. de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 56, pi. 22, fig. 99 $ ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 32, pi. 200, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, 6 £ ■ 



6 2 • Upperside : fore wing deep blue-black, with subhyaline 

 bluish- white streaks and spots in the 

 cell and interspaces as follows : a broad 

 diffuse streak in interspace 1 a, two 

 streaks with two pairs of spots beyond 

 in 1, one streak in 2 and one in 3 

 bifurcate at apex, each with one bi- 

 furcate and two sublunular spots 

 beyond ; a broad clavate streak, half- 

 divided, near the apex in cell, three 

 small subcostal spots above, and an 

 acutely pointed triangular spot beyond, 

 followed by three inwardly acute, out- 

 wardly bifurcate, short streaks, each 

 1 Fig. 45.— Hestina nama. \. with three spots beyond; finally two 



or three obscure preapical spots. Hind 

 wing dark chestnut ; broad, subhyaline, bluish-white streaks along- 

 dorsal margin and in cell, and narrower streaks in the interspaces, 

 followed by an irregular series of small spots and some obscure 

 terminal white markings. Underside similar, with similar more 

 clearly defined markings, most of the spots outwardly bifurcate ; 

 fore wing suffused with chestnut at apex. Antennae black ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen black above, the sides bluish green, beneath 

 spotted with white. 



