272 LEPIBOPTEEA INDICA. 



Expanse of wiugs, ^ $ li% to li iuclaes. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Mergui, Borneo. 



Distribution. — Hewitson records it as from Darjiling and Sara'.Yak ; we have it 

 from Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, where it aj^pears to be fairly common ; Manders 

 records it from the Shan States, "Watson from Kangoon, Moore from Mergui, Elwes 

 from the Naga Hills, Ataran Valley and Tavoy. 



HALPE CERATA. 



Plate 819, figs. 2, (J, 2a, 9,2b, ^. 



Mesperia cerata, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1876, p. 152 ; id. Descr. Lep. Col. Atk. p. i (1879). 



Halpe cerata, Ehves, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 451:, pi. 11, fig. 8, ^. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1888, p. 367. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 73 (1891). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 327. Watson, Proc. Zool. >Soc. 1S93, p. 109. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 184 

 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soo. ix. 189.5, p. 435 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 6S1. Elwes 

 and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 260. Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, 

 etc. 1908, p. 145. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown, somewhat olive-brown. Foregoing with 

 six white semi-diaphanous spots, two in a straight line from the costa, sub-apical, two 

 across the cell towards its end, usually touching each other, but occasionally quite 

 separated, two inwardly oblique, discal, one in each of the median interspaces near their 

 bases, llindicing with three more or less suffused spots in a curve in the disc, one 

 being just outside the cell end and one near the base of each median interspace, in 

 gome examples the series is continued upwards by one or two indistinct suffused spots. 

 Cilia white with brown spots opposite the vein ends. Underside a little paler with a 

 bronzy tint. Forewing with the spots as on the upperside, but duller white, a sub- 

 marginal series of small white spots varying in extent in different examples, usually 

 extending from the apex to the first median interspace, sometimes the spots are clear 

 white, often more or less obscure, the hinder marginal space broadly nearly pure white. 

 Hindwing with the discal series more complete upwards, in some examples continued in 

 a recurved form to the apex of the wing, all the spots pure white, and there is a large 

 white spot above the upper end of cell. Antennse black, the underside of the shaft 

 minutely spotted with white, the club white beneath, tip ferruginous ; palpi, head and 

 body brown, palpi and abdomen whitish beneath, pectus ochreous- white, legs pale 

 ferruginous. 



Female like the male, liut there is an extra spot on the forewing, in the middle of 

 the interno-median interspace, on the sub-median vein. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? lj\ to 1^ inches. 



