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PLATE XXXVII.
(ORDER—LBPIDOPTERA. SECTION—DIURNA.)
FIGURE 1.
HESTIA HYPERMNESTRA. WESTW.
Hestia alis siibelongatis, fumosis (prtesertim inter medium et apicem) uigro-maculatis et veiiosis ; costa nigra
macula parva subcostal! auticarum cum macula arese discoidalis connexa ; serieque macularum oblongarum pone
medium cum margine apicali parallela, omnibus alis ad apicem maculis ovalibus inter venas, aliisque majoribus
clavatis alternatis.
Ilestia, with the wings more elongate than in H. Idea (Agelia), and less so than in H. Lyncea ; pale blackishbrown,
with spots and veins of black. The costa hlack, with a small subcostal spot connected with the patch of the
discoidal cell of the fore wings ; and mth a row of oblong spots of black between the middle and apical margin,
being parallel with the latter. All the wings with the apical margins mai-ked with oval black spots between the
veins, alternating with larger clavate spots which rest upon the vems, inner false vein of the discoidal cell of the
hmd wings, mth a black spot on each side in the middle.
Expansion of the fore wings 64- inches.
Inliabits Borneo. In the Collection of the British Museum.
SYN.—Idea fumana Boisduval MS. in Doubleday, Gen. of Diurnal Lep. ?
OBSEKVATION.—This species cliifers from liestia Idea, Leuconoe^, Aza, and D'UiTillii in the smoky
appearance of the wings, from Lyncea in the less elongated wings, and the different position of the
spots of the fore wings, and from Blanchardii in the variegated apical margin, and the form of the
black spots.
FIGURE 2.
HESTIA BELIA. WESTW.
Hestia ahs ovatis, niveis, venis maculisciue nigris, macula parva arese discoidahs in ai-eam subcostalem vix extensa,
serieriue maculai'um ovalium pone medium, cum mai'gine apicale parallela, hoc in alis omnibus maculis oblongis
inter venas aliisque clavatis .alternatim notatis.
Ilestia with the wings oval, snow-white, with the veins and spots black ; the rather small spot of the discoidal
ceU scarcely extending into the subcostiil area, and with a row of black oval spots beyond the middle of the
wings, par.allol with the apical margin, which is alternately marked with oblong-oval spots between the veins,
and clavate ones placed on the veins ; the inner false vein in the discoid.al cell of the liind wings is marked in the
middle of its outer edge with a black spot; the apical margin of the wnigs is rather iiTegular.
Expansion of the fore wings inches.
Inhabits Java. In the Collection of the British Museum,
OBSERVATIONS.—This spccies differs from H. Lyncea, Blanchardii, Hypermnestra_, and Leuconoe,
in the pure white groimd-coloiu' of its wings; from H. Idea in the oval, not longitudinal, markings
hcyond the middle of the wings; from H. D'Urvillii in the smallness of the discoidal spots of the fore
M'ings and the maculated hind wings; and from H. Aza in the difference of the marginal and
suhmarginal markings.
Idea Gaura Ilorsf., and I. Daos Bdv., have been removed from the genus Hestia by Mr. E.
Doviblcday, on account of the structure of their antennte and tarsi disagreeing with those of the
species above mentioned.