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HALPE HOMOLEA. 

 Plate 817, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3h, ^. 



Hesperla hnmolea, Hewitson, Desor. Hesp. p. 29 (1868). Watsou, Hesp. Ind. p. 71 (footnote) 



(1891). 

 Halpe homolea, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 109. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 324. de Nice^-ille, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 184 (1894). de Xic'ville and Mai-tin, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 547. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and 



Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 265, pi. 25, fig. 71 (genitalia). Adamson, Trans. X. H. Soc. 



Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 145. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 46. 

 Halpe sihl-ima, Wood-]SIason and de Niceville (nee Moore), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 385, 



pi. 17, fig. 8, ^. 

 Halpe aucnia (ab.), Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 325. 

 Halpe perara (ab.), Swinlioe, I.e. 

 Halpe inarta (ab.), Swinhoe, I.e. 

 Halpe ivoniona, (ab.), Swinhoe, I.e. 

 Halpe Iwmolea veluvana, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackisli-brown. Forewing with five or six semi- 

 hyaline spots, one or the other of them often absent, one inside the upper end of the 

 cell, two obliquely, in the disc, near the bases of the median interspaces, these spots 

 are sometimes quadrate, sometimes oblong, and sometimes quite round and small, and 

 two small sub-apical spots, sometimes a third minute spot close to the costa ; in some 

 examples {perara) all the spots are absent, except the two discal spots which are small 

 and round, but the genitalia of all of them are said to be alike,* showing them to be 

 of one variable species. Hindwing without markings. Cilia chequered brown and 

 ochreous-grey on the forewing, whitish on the hindwing, with some small brown marks 

 at the vein ends. Underside a little paler and ochreous-tinted. Forewing with a dull 

 ochreous-white streak below the basal half of the costa, the spots as above, but all 

 tinted with ochreous, and a series of sub-marginal, more densely ochreous-tinted spots, 

 one in each interspace, which become obsolete hindwards. Hindwing with the basal 

 half of the wing smeared with didl greyish-ochreous, caused by minute scaling of that 

 colour ; a discal, outwardly curved series of more or less obscure, ochreous-white 

 spots from the costa to above the sub-median vein. Cilia of both wings whitish, 

 with brown spots opposite the vein ends ; all these markings very variable, in some 

 examples the basal greyish-ochreous suffusion is very dull and indistinct, in some 

 it is entirely absent, and in some examples all the spots on both wings are almost 

 entirely absent. Antennte black, the shaft spotted with ochreous-white un the uuder- 



* Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897 p. 265. 



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