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Helkopage hirundinalis^ $ 



line ; cilia yellow. Hindwing with pnrplish-brown discocellular bar and 

 lunulate marginal line ; a pale crenulate postmedial line ; cilia yellow. 

 Habitat. — Kliasis. Exp. 20 mm. 



4100. Eucrostes disparata, insert (syn.) Hemithea puncti fimbria, 

 Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 366. 



Genus Helicopage. 

 Helkopage, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 106 (1896). 

 Type. — H. hirundinalis (Warr.). 

 Range. — North-east India. 



Palpi with the second joint upturned to above vertex of head, and 



fringed with hair on 

 both sides, the third 

 long, porrect and spa- 

 tulate at extremity ; 

 irons smooth ; antennse 

 bipectinate, the apex 

 simple ; hind tibiaj of 

 male with fold and tuft, 

 two pairs of spurs pre- 

 sent ; abdomen without dorsal tufts. Forewing with the outer margin 

 slightly crenulate ; 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9, 10, stalked. Hindwing 

 with the outer margin highly crenulate and produced to an angle at 

 vein 4 ; veins 3, 4, 6, and 7, from angles of cell ; male with a fovea 

 at base between costal and subcostal nervures ; the retinaculum a long 

 corneous bar curled round at extremity. 

 4104a. Helicopage hirundinalis, Warr., Nov. Zool., iii, p. 106. 

 $. Bright emerald-green irrorrated with pale fuscous ; palpi and 

 antennse pale ochreous. Forewing with fuscous patches near base of 

 costa and inner margin, an antemedial series, double in cell ; a spot 

 at upper angle of cell ; three claviform black marks beyond the cell, 

 with ochreous on their outer edges on a fuscous patch ; two obscure 

 postmedial series of lunulate marks ; a large subapical patch and a 

 spot above vein 2. Hindwing with basal patch ; a spot at upper 

 angle of cell ; medial spots on costa and inner margin ; obscure 

 postmedial and submarginal series of spots ending in an irregular 

 patch near anal angle. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Kh^sis. Exp. 46 mm. 



