268 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



side, club with an orange tip ; palpi, head and body blackish-brown, palpi beneath grey, 

 pectus and abdomen whitish ; legs dull pale red. 



Female like the male, usually somewhat paler in colour, the spots on the 

 forewing a little larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type is from Singapore, Friihstorfer records it from Java, 

 de Niceville and Martin from Sumatra, Adamson from Upper Burma, de Niceville 

 from Sikkim ; we have received many examples of this very variable species from the 

 Khasia Hills, including many that are perfectly typical. Wood-Mason and de Nice'ville's 

 figure represents one of the varieties of homolea, and is unlike typical sikkima. 



HALPE SIKKIMA. 



Plate 818, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, $. 



Ealje sikMma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 407. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 453, pi. 11, 

 fig. 3, (J, 4, (J, var. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 70 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 653. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 264, pi. 25, fig. 70 (genitalia). Adamson, Trans. 

 N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 145. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 46. 



Imago. — ^Male and Female very like ff. homolea, Hewitson, l:)ut it is a smaller 

 insect. Upperside usually paler and not so brightly blackish-brown ; the discal spots 

 in the forewing are elongated quadrate spots filling up the median interspaces near 

 their bases and are consequently much closer together than in homolea, being merely 

 divided from each other by the second median nervule, and there are only the lower 

 two of the sub-apical spots, and they are more erectly placed ; on the underside the 

 spots are as on the upperside, otherwise the undersides of both wings are marked 

 sufiusedly as in many of the varietal examples of homolea, the costal space of the 

 forewino- and the entire hindwing being; covered with minute ochreous-grey scaling. 

 Moore likens it to //. beturia, Hewitson (meaning H. moorei, Watson), from which it 

 greatly differs in many respects, but the spots on the forewing are somewhat similarly 

 shaped, as in all the species of this group ; the discal spots, however, are closer together 

 as Moore says. 



Expanse of wings, J ? ly-^^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The types are from Sikkim ; Adamson records it from Burma ; it is 

 in our collection from Sikkim, the Khasia Hills and Thoungyin, Burma. 



