72 HALPE. 



99. HALPE KUMARA, DE NICEVILLE. 



Halpe kumara, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1885, p. 121, pi. ii, fig. 10 <? . 



" $ Upperside deep bronzy-brown. Forewing with five small equal- 

 sized ochreous spots, viz., two conjoined subapical, one at the upper and 

 outer angle of the cell, and two on the disc. Hindwing unmarked. 

 Underside with the costa and apex diminishing towards the inner angle of 

 the forewing and the entire hindwing clothed with deep ochreous scales ; 

 the spots of the. forewing as above but larger. An anteciliary black line ; 

 cilia ochreous, dusky at the end of the nervules in the forewing. Antennae 

 dusky above, the club and upper portion of the shaft bright ochreous. 

 The sexual mark on the upperside of the forewing indistinct. 



Expanse: 1-4 inches. 



Habitat : Sikkim (Otto M oiler). 



Allied to Halpe separata, Moore, a female specimen of which from 

 Sikkim is before me. Differs from that species in having only two 

 subapical spots, the spot in the cell not transverse, and the posterior 

 border of the forewing on the underside dark brown, not yellow." (de 

 Niceville, I. c.) 



In collection de Niceville. 



100.-HALPE AINA, DE NICEVILLE. 



Halpe aina, de Niceville, Journal Bomb. Nat. Soc., vol. v, p. 176, 

 pi. B, fig. 8, cf (1890). 



" HABITAT : Sikkim. 



EXPANSE : $ , 1-36 to 1-44 inches. 



DESCRIPTION : Nearest to H. kumara, mihi, of which Mr. Otto Moller 

 possesses eighteen specimens from Sikkim. MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings 

 of a more tawny-ferruginous colour, due to the entire forewing and the 

 basal two-thirds of the hindwing being clothed with a thick coating of long 

 hair-like scales placed upon a deep brown ground. Forewing with two 

 conjoined spots in the discoidal cell, the upper spot answering to the single 

 spot of H. kumara, the lower spot twice as large as the upper ; three instead 

 of two increasing conjoined subapical spots ; the two discal spots much 

 the same : the " male-mark," however, instead of being a long continuous 

 black streak of modified scales as in H. kumara presents the appearance of 

 two obliquely-placed yellow spots exactly as in H. gupta, mihi, which can 

 be teazed out by a pin-point into a quantity of fluffy material like down. 

 UNDERSIDE, both wings coloured much as in H. kumara. Forewing with the 

 translucent yellow spots as on the upperside. Hindwing unmarked in four 

 specimens, in one specimen with two opaque pale yellow discal spots. 



Described from five male specimens in the collection of Mr. Otto 

 Moller, and four in my own." (de Niceville, I. c.) 



