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3 well before end of cell, about equidistant from 2 and from 4 ; 

 vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing 

 evenly rounded ; cell very short ; vein 7 well before end of cell, 

 at its origin vein 7 is sharply bent upwards, and the upper margin 

 of the cell is bent downwards so that the angle is shaped like a 

 tuning-fork ; discocellulars faint ; vein 5 not traceable ; vein 3 from 

 end of cell ; vein 2 very much nearer to end of cell than to base of 

 wing ; lower margin of cell slightly angled at vein 2. The above 

 is the ueuration of the male ; in the female vein 3 of the fore wing 

 is slightly nearer to end of cell, and on the hind wing vein 7 arises 

 at an acute angle with the upper margin of cell. Hind tibite slightly 

 fringed and with two pairs of spurs. In most species the male is 

 provided with a linear discal stigma on the fore wing, running 

 obliquely from the origin of vein 3 almost to the inner margin. In 

 those species in which there is no discal stigma, the neuration of 

 both wings of the male agrees with that of the female. 



gupta, de N 8. 



' sema, Hew y. 



hrimnea,MoorQ> 10. 



astigiHata,Evimhoe ... 11. 



honorcijAe'S 12. 



■ decorata,M.oov6 13. 



i *masoni, Moore 14. 



Of the above species, astigmata, Jionorei, and niasoni are without 

 the discal stigma, and it is very short and inconspicuous in decorata. 

 Similar differences in the neuration of the male and the female 

 are found in the Asiatic genera Pithauria and Aiiromachus, in 

 both of which the male when it has no discal stigma agrees mth 

 the female in neuration, but when provided with a discal stigma 

 differs from the female in the position of vein 3 of the fore wing 

 and in the distortion of the bifurcation of vein 7 of the hind wing. 



Confined to Southern Asia and Japan. 



Halpe moorei, sp. nov. 



H. beturia auctorum, nee Hewitsou. 



Above dark brown. Fore wing : male with seven transparent white 

 spots — two in cell, sometimes united, three subapical, and two on 

 disk ; the female has an additional opaque white spot at the centre of 

 submedian. Hind wing with the disk suffused with paler yellowish. 

 Cilia : fore wing grey, chequered with brown at end of veins ; hind 

 wing uniform greyish. Underside: fore wing with spots as above 

 and with an additional row of six or seven submarginal greyish- 

 white spots between the veins, running parallel to the outer margin ; 

 costa, apex, and greater part of outer margin suffused with yellowish 

 scales. Hind wing with a conspicuous transverse white band of 

 spots extending across wing just beyond cell from outer angle as 

 far as submedian, the spot immediately outside cell considerably the 

 largest ; a small whitish spot at end of cell, an incomplete sub- 

 ixiai'ginal row of whitish spots from anal angle, the two inuer ones 



