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Show 1883.j MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 217 Hestia leuconoe, Doubleday & Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. p. 95 pi. 13. f. 2 (1847) ; Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 469. Hab. Philippines (Mindanao) ; Borneo. 7. NECTARIA GODMANI. Idaa godmani, Oberthur, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1879, p. 230. Hab. Sangir Island. 8. NECTARIA CLARA. Hestia clara, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 469. Hab. Tamsui; North Formosa (Hobson); ? 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 different 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 electra, Semper, Verh. 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 slightly confluent with the veins at their upper angles. Expanse, 8 5£s 2 ^h Hab. Philippines (East Mindanao). In coll. G. Semper. Genus HESTIA. Hestia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett- p. 15 (1816). Wings semidiaphanous : fore wing long, narrow, somewhat fusiform ; costa much arched ; 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 veinlet. Hind wing fusiform, narrow; cell narrow ; veins mostly straight. Antennae slender; apical joint of palpi prominent. Type H. lynceus. 1. HESTIA LYNCEUS. Papilio lynceus, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 7. f. 1 (1773). 15* |