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DARPA. 



and a small spot on the lower part of the disc, bordered without by a 

 black band : hindwing with a transverse subbasal, an elbowed discal, and 

 a lower submarginal purplish-white line ; apex of wing with suffused 

 black patch and lower marginal blackish pale-bordered spots. Underside 

 brown, forewing suffused with greyish-white at the base ; markings as 

 above : hindwing greyish-white, the transverse lines less denned, marginal 

 spots blacker, and a blackish spot near base of wing. Palpi above black. 

 Palpi and body beneath and legs greyish-white. Female paler, marked on 

 upper-and undersides as in male. 



Expanse : $ if ; 9 if inches. 



Habitat : N.-E. Bengal." (Moore, I.e.] 



Also recorded from Cachar (Wood-Mason and de Niceville) ; Orissa 

 (Taylor)', Kumaon (Doherty) ; Tavoy (Elwes and de Niceville) ; Nilgiris 

 (Hampson) ; Sikkim (de Niceville', Elwes). 



I have this species commonly from Rangoon. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



GENUS XXXV. DARPA. 



Darpa, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, P- 7 Sl - 



" Palpi stout, densely pilose ; third joint small, conical, hidden by the 

 hairs. Antennae moderate, hooked at the tip ; legs short ; femora slightly 

 pilose ; fore tibiae short and rather stout ; mid tibiae slightly and hind 

 tibiae densely pilose ; mid and hind tibiae armed with a pair of short 

 spurs (the usual second pair on the latter invisible). Body stout, abdomen 

 short. Wings small ; costa of forewing nearly straight ; exterior margin 

 irregularly scalloped, produced in the middle : hindwing somewhat qua- 

 drate ; exterior margin irregularly scalloped, produced to an angle in the 

 middle.'' (Moore, I. c.) 



154. DARPA HANRIA, MOORE. 



Darpa hanria, Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 781, pi. xlii, fig. 2. 



" Upperside black, with minute bluish-grey scales in patches between 

 the veins and narrowly along the veins : forewing with a series of semi- 

 transparent irregular-shaped spots, the largest of which is within the extre- 

 mity of the cell, others above and beneath it ; before the apex are three 

 small conjugated spots : hindwing with a pale yellow space broadly occu- 

 pying the lower portion of the exterior margin : apical and two medial 

 angles with a black spot ; base of wing adorned with very long brown and 

 yellow hairs. Underside paler ; forewing with markings as above, densely 

 irrorated with bluish-white scales : hindwing bluish-white at the base, 

 yellowish-white exteriorly ; anterior margin and apex blackish ; below the 

 anterior margin are three black spots, and a spot on the two medial angles 

 of exterior margin. Palpi and body beneath and legs white. 



Expanse : if inches. 



