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black submarginal decreasing macular band, which sometimes has central white dots ; 

 a short upper discal slender black sinuous line slightly diffused outwardly with paler 

 fulvous. Underside pale olivescent-ochreous, crossed by the normal slender blackish 

 sinuous lines, the interspace of the discal hnes being darker ochreous, and the 

 marginal border with the normal lilacine-grey washed dentate markings. Body above 

 pale fulvous ; palpi above dusky-brown, beneath white ; body beneath and legs pale 

 greyish-ochreous ; fore tarsi whitish ; antennge black. 



Female. Upperside yellowish-fulvous ; much paler than in male. Forewincj 

 with the outer border broadly black, the extreme marginal edge being fulvous tinged ; 

 discocellular duplex streak and inner discal transverse lunules black and sharply 

 defined, the lunules between the median basal interspaces decreasing in width from 

 the upper, which is broad ; the series of six submarginal lunular spots on the 

 black border are broad, well-defined, and pale fulvous-yellow ; the medial discal 

 area is pale yellowish- white, the upper portion being whitest, and with a distinct black 

 costal streak extending from the costal vein to the lower radial. Eindwing with a 

 submarginal series of broad black rounded spots, the two upper largest and united, 

 the six next decreasing in size, the fourth, fifth, and sixth with a slightly defined 

 central white speck, the two anal with a distinct white lunule speckled with grey 

 scales ; a slender obsolescently decreasing black sinuous discal line extending from the 

 costal vein to the lower median, the medial costal area slightly paler yellow. Under- 

 side similar to that of the male. 



Expanse, c? S^-q to 3j[^, ? B^q to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas ; Nepal. 



This species — compared with the type of Hierax — is a comparatively shorter 

 insect, the forewing being less produced apically, and differs in having the inner 

 edge of the black outer marginal band excurved (whereas in Hierax this band is 

 broader and its inner edge is obliquely erect) ; the transverse discal sinuous line of 

 Hemana is also further from the outer band, being three-tenths of an inch in width 

 between the upper and middle medians (whereas in Hierax it is not two-tenths) ; the 

 whole underside is also of a much paler colour. 



Distribution. — Kollar's specimens are recorded from Masuri. Specimens of 

 both sexes, from Masuri, are in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection. A female 

 from the Uglar Valley, north of Landour, is in the British Museum. Mr. W. 

 Doherty (J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 124) records it from " Kapot, on the Sarju, also 

 from the Gori and Kali Valleys, Kumaon." The type male is recorded from Nepal, 

 and specimens of it, taken by the late General G. Ramsay, during his residency at 

 the Court of Nepal, are in my own collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 177, fig. 1, la, is from a Nepal male, 

 identical with the type, and fig. lb is from a Masuri female. 



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