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101. HALPE GUPTA, DE NICEVILLE. 



Halpe gupta, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 255, p. xi, fig. i, rf". 



" Male. Upperside, both wings dark-brown. Forewing with two 

 small spots in the cell placed obliquely one above the other, obsolete 

 in one specimen, two or three conjoined subapical minute spots, two on 

 the disc divided by the second median nervule. Hindwing with some 

 long ochreous hairs in the middle of the disc. Underside, forewing with 

 the costa and apex diminishing towards the anal angle and the whole of 

 the hindwing clothed with greenish-ochreous scales. Forewing marked 

 as above. Hindwing with two or three small pale opaque spots on the 

 disc. Cilia cinereous, tipped with darker at the end of the nervules. 



Expanse: </* 1-4 to 1-5 inches. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Nearest to H, kumara, mihi, differs somewhat in shape, the forewing 

 being narrower and more produced at the apex, the subapical spots 

 smaller. On the underside in H. gupta there are some pale spots on the 

 disc of the hindwing, which are absent in .H". kumara. The shade of the 

 ground-colour is also quite different : in H. kumara, it is golden-brown, 

 in H. gupta, greenish-ochreous. The sexual mark is rather prominent, 

 Mr. Otto Moller has obtained several male specimens in Sikkim." (de 

 Niceville , /. c.) 



The female has not been described. According to Mr. Elwes the 

 male of this species has a double sexual mark on the forewing. 



In collection de Niceville. 



102. HALPE CERATA, HEWITSON. 



Hespevia cerata, Hewitson, Ent. Mon. Mag., 1876, p. 152. 

 Hespevia cerata, Hewitson, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk., p. 4, (1879). 

 Halpe cerata, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1888, p. 454, pi. xi, fig. 8, </ 

 " Upperside dark brown : anterior wing with four transparent white 

 spots ; one in the cell sinuated on both sides, two below this between 

 the branches of the median nervure, and one near the apex bifid ; pos- 

 terior wing with a central series of four or five indistinct white spots. 

 Underside as above, except that both wings have a submarginal series 

 of pale spots, that the posterior wing has a white spot near the base, and 

 a transverse central series of six distinct white spots. 

 Expanse : i T % inches. 

 Habitat : Darjeeling." (Hewitson, L c.) 

 Also recorded from Sikkim (Elwes ) ; Nilgiris (Hampson.) 

 According to Mr. Elwes, this is the commonest species of the genus 

 found in Sikkim, the female however is rare and differs from the male. 

 If this is the case the female has apparently never been described. 

 In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



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