Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . THE HESTTAS. 585 There is but little difference in the colours of the undersurface of the wings, except that the yellow, blue, and crimsonare not quite so brilliant, and the spots are less sharply Fig. 328.—Serecinns Montela. Female.(Brown, yellow, and crimson.) We now pass to another group of Butterflies, called theDanainae, several examples of which will be figured, and otherswill be mentioned or briefly described. On Plate XIII. Fig. 1 is shown a large Butterfly called Eesti
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . THE HESTTAS. 585 There is but little difference in the colours of the undersurface of the wings, except that the yellow, blue, and crimsonare not quite so brilliant, and the spots are less sharply Fig. 328.—Serecinns Montela. Female.(Brown, yellow, and crimson.) We now pass to another group of Butterflies, called theDanainae, several examples of which will be figured, and otherswill be mentioned or briefly described. On Plate XIII. Fig. 1 is shown a large Butterfly called EestiaIdea. This genus is rather a large one, and as all the speciesare of very similar colouring, and there is a great tendency tovariation, it is not at all easy to distinguish between the Westwood has figured several Hestias in his OrientalEntomology, and comments upon the difficulty of distinguish-ing between a species and a variety. Speaking of Hestia Jasonia,a Cingalese insect, he makes the following remarks, which arewell worthy of notice:— How far this may be a good specific character must be leftfor time (or, more properly speaking, the possession of an exten-sive series of specimens of these insects from different localities) 586 [NSECTS ABROAD. to determine. It is doubtless in some d
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