690 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW HESPERID.E. [June IS, 



Halpe ceylonica, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 9.) 



Upperside dark brown ; base of wings and body olive-brown ; 

 fore wing with two contiguous subapical small white spots, two 

 oblique discal small conical spots with deeply excavated outer border, 

 and a smaller spot at upper end of the cell ; the male with an 

 oblique discal streak composed of broad raised darker brown scales ; 

 cilia brownish-cinereous, alternated with dark brown. Underside 

 dark brown, speckled with ochreous scales ; fore wing with white 

 spots as above, and a small spot also below the discal series ; an 

 upper submarginal row of indistinct pale ochreous spots ; hind wing 

 with a broad transverse median and a maculated discal greyish- 

 ochreous band. Palpi, body beneath, and legs greyish-ochreous. 



Expanse, 3 l T 2 jj, $ If inch. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Halpe beturia. 



Hesperia beturia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 36 (1868). 

 Hab. Calcutta district {Atkinson and Farr) ; Andamans (Rcep- 

 storff). 



Halpe luteisq.uama. 

 Pamphila luteisqnama, Mabille. 

 Hab. Luzon. 



Halpe dolopia. 



Hesperia dolopia, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 27 (1868) ; Exot. 

 Butt. Hesp. pi. 6. f. 60, 61. 

 Hab. Darjiling (Atkinson). 



Halpe radians, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 1.) 



Male. Upperside luteous-brown, basal hairy scales yellow. Cilia 

 cinereous-white : fore wing with a pale yellow constricted spot at end 

 of the cell, and an irregular transverse continuous discal band of 

 spots with their lower angles continued outward along the veins ; 

 hind wing with a yellow streak at end of the cell, and a short discal 

 band with outer rays. Underside paler, minutely speckled with 

 yellowish-white; fore wing as above, the hind margin being also 

 broadly yellow ; hind wing with a 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 1| inch. 



Hab. Dhurmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Pamphila palmarum, n.sp. (Plate XLV. figs. 6 & 7, ? 6 • ) 

 Differs from typical Java specimens of P. augias, Linn., in its much 

 larger size, the male having the markings above paler yellow and 

 broader, the impressed oblique discal streak on the fore wing being- 

 obsolete, the outer border of the discal band much less sinuous, and 

 the yellow colour not extending along the veins to the exterior mar- 

 gin of the wing. 



