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HALPE GUPTA. 



Plate 818, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, <? . 



Eaipe gupta, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 2.34, pi. 11, fig. 1, ^. Ehves, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 4.54. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 73 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 109. 

 Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 327. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 184 (1894). 

 Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. G17, pi. 42, fig. 20, ^ (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. ix. 1895, p. 43.5. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 266. de Rhe-Philipe, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1898, p. 600. Hannyngton, id. xx. 1910, p. 371. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown. Forewing with the spots small, ochreous- 

 white and semi-diaphanous ; two minute ones inside the cell near its end, one above 

 the other well separated, being placed against the margins of the cell, one or both of 

 these spots sometimes absent ; two, sometimes three, minute sub-apical spots in a 

 straight line, and two somewhat larger, more or less oval spots in an inwardly obliijue 

 line at the bases of the median interspaces and close together, being only separated 

 from each other by the second median nervule ; the sex mark somewhat prominent. 

 Ilindwtng without markings, but with some long, ochreous hairs in the middle of the 

 disc. Cilia cinereous on forewing, whitish on hiudwing, with cinereous tips. Underside. 

 Foreioing with the centre space between the median and sub-median veins blackish, the 

 rest of the wing greenish-ochreous, being covered with minute scales of that colour, rlie 

 spots as on the upperside. Hiudwing entirely suffused with greenish-ochreous scales ; 

 with two or three pale, dull ochreous spots in the discal series. Antennae black, the 

 shaft dotted with white ; palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, palpi beneath 

 and the pectus grey, and some grey bands on the lower half of the abdomen. 



Female like the male, but there are two additional .spots on the forewing, in the 

 interno-median interspace one above the other in a line with the two cell spots. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ^tV to l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, N.W. Himalayas, China. 



Distribution. — The type male came from Sikkim ; we have several males from 

 the Khasia Hills, de Rhe-Philipe records it from Masuri, Hannyngton from Kumaou, 

 and Leech from W. China. 



HALPE BURMANA, nov. 

 Plate 818, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, (J. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside olive-brown. Fort'iring with seven sordid white spots, 

 two somewhat elongated near the end of the cell, placed obliquely and well separated, 

 one above the other, the upper one very slightly the smaller ; three sub-apical small spots, 

 the uppermost one the smallest, the middle spot well inwards, and two spots, twice as 



