184 LEPIDOPTEBA IN DIG A. 



translucent white ; an opaque dot touching the sub-median nervure in the middle of 

 the sub-median interspace. Hlndwing with three translucent white spots forming an 

 equilateral triangle, of which the two at the base are the largest and equal, and the apical 

 one is a mere dot. Underside. Forewing with a broad costal streak occupying the 

 upj^er half of the discoidal cell and reaching to just beyond the middle of the wing, 

 and an apical patch, bright chrome-yellow, between which streak and patch the ground- 

 colour is ca"staneous, the rest of the wings black ; the translucent white spots as on the 

 upperside, but with two additional small black spots between the lowest of the 

 sub-apical series and the spot in the second median interspace. Hindwing with the 

 ])asal half of the wing chrome-yellow, the outer half castaneous ; a small round 

 castaneous spot near the base of the wing, the three discal translucent spots as on the 

 upperside, but with two additional opaque round spots, one near the costa at the 

 inner edge of the castaneous portion of the wing, the other in the middle of the sub- 

 median interspace, all five spots surrounded by a fine black line ; there are traces of a 

 series of blackish spots between the veins near the margin. Head, thorax and 

 abdomen black above, beneath, legs and palpi chrome-yellow. 



Very near to, but quite distinct from, Ile/^peria cephala, Hewitson,* a fairly 

 common Sikkim .s]Decies, from which it difl'ers in its larger size and in the following 

 particulars : — The sub-apical series of spots on the forewing has the middle spot the 

 smallest and the upper one the largest, while in H. cephala the series is an increasing 

 one ; in //. cephala the spot below these is in the lower discoidal interspace, in 

 //. cephaloides it is in the second median interspace ; on the hindwing, in H. cephaloides 

 it is in the second median interspace ; on the hindwing, in H. cephaloides there are 

 three small spots, in //. c>iphala there are two only, both large, the outer one very 

 large ; on the underside, in //. cephala the costal yellow streak extends uninterruptedly 

 from the base to the apex, in H. cephaloides it is interrupted by a large castaneous 

 patch ; in H. cephala the hindwing is entirely yellow, in IT. cephaloides the basal half 

 only is yellow, the outer half being castaneous ; the spots too are very difi'erent and in 

 greater number and occupy difi'erent positions. 



I am indebted to Mr. B. Noble, the Curator of the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, for 

 the opportunity of describing this interesting species, of which he has obtained two 

 specimens. They were captured by the native collector attached to that institution in 

 the Karen Hills in April, 1887. 



Expanse of wings, $ lj\y inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type from the Karen Hills is in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon. 

 Elwes records it also from the Naga Hills and from Bernardmyo ; we have not seen 



* Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii. p. 152 (1876). 



