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abdomeu are grey, the legs brown above, ochreous beneath, the tarsi ochreous ; the 

 thorax and base of legs with white hairs. 



Expanse of wings, $ I^q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim. 



Described and figured from a male in our collection from Sikkim, which agrees 

 well with Elwes' descrijition and figure ; his type is also from Sikkim ; the markings 

 are much as in some of the varietal forms of H. homolea, but it is a larger insect, 

 much more yellowish in colour than homolea, the hindwing is somewhat longer, and 

 it seems to be distinct from any other of the described species. Our example has 

 been in our collection for some years unnamed ; it is not in the B. M., and we have 

 not been able to procure a female. 



HALPE ZEMA. 



Plate 819, figs. 1, <J, la, J , lb, $ . 



Sesperia zema, Hewitson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 77. 



Ealpe zema, Moore, Joura. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lend. 1886, p. 53. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 455, 



pi. 11, fig. 7, (J. Manders, id. 1890, p. 538. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 7-4 (1891). Elwes, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 653. Watson, id. 1893, p. 109. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 327. 



de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 184 (1894). de Niceville and Martin, 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. 260. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 



1908, p. 145. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 45. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown. Forewinfi with six white semi- 

 diaphanous spots, three small spots, sub-apical, in a deep curve, the upper one minute, 

 a small spot inside the upper margin of the cell towards its end, two spots, much 

 larger, more or less quadrate and elongate, one in each of the median interspaces near 

 their bases. Hinchving with a pale suifused patch in the middle of the wing, varying 

 much in extent in different examples, otherwise without markings. Cilia of forewing 

 brown, becoming whitish towards the hinder angle ; of hindwing whitish touched with 

 brown opposite the vein ends. Underside paler, somewhat ochreous-tinted. Forewing 

 slightly suliused with ochreous along the costa, the white spots as above, a sub- 

 marginal series of ochreous-white spots from the apex to the middle of the wing. 

 Hindwing with a whitish discal band from the apex to interspace 1, where it is some- 

 times produced somewhat hind wards, the inner margin of the band fairly regular, its 

 outer margin very irregular, the band varying very greatly in width in different 

 examples. Antennae black, the shaft minutely spotted with white on the underside, 

 the club whitish beneath, tip ferruginous ; palpi grey ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 brown, thorax beneath with grey hairs, abdomen beneath white, legs ferruginous. 



Female like the male, but paler in colour, the spots on the forewing larger, a small 

 spot in a line with the discal series on the middle of the sub-median vein. 



