HALPE. 75 



subbasal spot, all the veins, and two (a median and a discal) transverse 

 sinuous bands pale yellow. Palpi, body beneath and legs yellowish-white. 



Expanse : i inches. 



Habitat : Dhurmsala, N. W. Himalayas." (Moore, I. c.) 



In collection Indian Museum. 



106.-HALPE SITALA, DE NICEVILLE. 



JTalpe sitala, de Niceville, J. A. S. B., 1885, p. 121, pi. ii, fig. 5, $ . 



" </ Upperside, fore wing dark brown : two minute conjoined subapical 

 dots, two well separated spots placed obliquely near the end of the cell, 

 and two similar ones on the disc, semi-diaphanous ochreous white. The 

 usual sexual mark, somewhat indistinct. Cilia ochreous, dusky at the end 

 of the nervules. Hindwing dark brown with a patch of ochreous hairs 

 in the middle of the wing ; cilia ochreous : underside, forewing dark 

 brown, the costa and apex widely ferruginous-ochreous ; the spots as above. 

 Hindwing ferruginous-ochreous ; two conspicuous white dots placed in the 

 median interspaces, two indistinct ochreous spots placed close together 

 between the innermost of the two spots and the anal angle. Antennae 

 dusky above, the club and upper portion of the shaft below ferruginous. 



Expanse : 1.5 inches. 



Habitat: Ootacamund, S. India. (G.F. Hampson)." (de Niceville^ I. c.) 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



107.-HALPE HONOREI, DE NICEVILLE. 



Halpe honorei, de Niceville, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 464, pi. xl, fig. 8, 9 . 



" Female. Upperside ; both wings fuscous. Forewing with the base 

 clothed with yellow hair-like scales, more or less forming streaks between 

 the veins ; a large rhomboidal spot at the outer end of the discoidal cell, 

 two elongated ones, the upper twice the size of the lower, in the median 

 interspaces, two or three subapical conjugated increasing spots, all semi- 

 transparent glistening yellow. Hindwing with all but the costal margin 

 as far as the second subcostal nervule, and the outer margin somewhat 

 narrowly, and the abdominal margin, clothed with long yellow setae ; a 

 large discal yellow patch beyond the cell divided by the dark nervules 

 and enclosing a blackish dot in the second median interspace. Underside: 

 forewing black all except the costal margin increasingly, the apex widely 

 and the outer margin decreasingly, which are yellowish-ochreous ; the 

 semi-transparent spots as above, with two additional somewhat diffused 

 opaque spots placed one above the other near the. middle of the submedian 

 interspace, which appear in a somewhat constricted form on the upper- 

 side of one specimen. Hindwing yellowish-ochreous throughout ; a black 

 spot at the end of the cell and about six between the veins outside the 

 cell ; some obscure submarginal blackish spots ; the abdominal margin 

 and a streak in the submedian interspace black. 



