266 LEPinOPTERA INDICA. 



the Andamans ; de Rhe-Pliilipe from Masuri, J. J. Walker from Hong Kong, de 

 Niceville from Sikkim, Elwes from Trichinopoli in Ceylon, and Tavoy in Burma, Moore 

 from Calcutta ; we have received many examples from the Khasia Hills, and have it 

 from Port Blair, Calcutta, Eauikhet, and Karwar ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken bred it at 

 Karwar ; our figures of the larva and pupa are from Davidson's original drawings not 

 previously published. Adamson says it is a common species in Burma. 



HALPE CEYLONICA. 



Plate 817, figs. 2, <J , Sa, ? , 2b, ^. 



Halpe ceylonica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 690, pi. 45, tig. 9 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 173 (1881); 

 id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 53. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 366. 

 Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 447. Wat.son, Hesp. Ind. p. 75 (1891); id. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 109 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Davidson, Bell 

 and Aitken, id. xi. 1897, p. 48. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 263. Evans, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 389. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 46. 



Imago. — ]\Iale. Upperside dark brown. Forewing with two small sub-apical 

 spots, a small spot in the upper part of the cell beyond its middle, and two larger 

 discal spots in the median interspaces near their bases, all the spots semi-hyaline and 

 white. H'lndwing without markings. Cilia alternated brown and whitLsh. Underside 

 paler, more or less ochreous-tinted. Forewing with the spots as above and a series of 

 sub-marginal small whitish spots, one in each interspace, from the apex to the first 

 median interspace. Hindwing with a broad transverse band before the middle, 

 composed of whitish streaks, somewhat suffused, and a post-discal series of white spots, 

 the lowest one in the first interspace large, with a large spot above it, and some whitish 

 hairs inside the abdominal fold. Antennae black, ferruginous beneath, the club with a 

 ferruginous tip ; palpi, head and body brown, palpi beneath grey, pectus and the 

 underside of the abdomen whitish ; legs ochreous. 



Female like the male, but there is an extra white spot in the interno-median 

 inter.space in continuation of the discal series in the forewing, and on the underside of 

 the hindwing the middle band is usually much more suffused and the spots in the post- 

 discal series are larger and more complete. 



Expanse of wings, J ? ly^ to ly% inches. 



Habitat. — South India, Ceylon, Mergui. 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — The types are from Ceylon ; Hampson records it from the Kilgiris, 

 Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar, Evans from the Palni Hills, Fergusson from 

 Travancore, and Moore from Mergui (a doubtful locality). We have both sexes from 

 Ceylon taken by Mackwood, and from Kolar in Southern India. 



