274 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



The double sexual lirand i.s the same, but the spots above it are wanting, as is also 

 sometimes the case in II. gupta, and the apical spot is double and not treble as in all 

 my specimens of H. gupta. Below the brown is paler than above, with the same spots 

 on the forewing, and the hindwing sprinkled with paler hairs. (Elwes.) 



Expanse of wings, ^ 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Burma. 



We have not seen this species, and therefore give copies of Elwes' figure. 



HALPE HYRTACUS. 



Plate 820, figs. 1, ^ , la, ^ . 



Halpe hyrtacus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixvi. p. 575, pi. 3, fig. 22 (1897). Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken, Jouru. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 1897, p. 49 (larva and pupa). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark brown tinged with yellow, both wings being 

 covered with minute yellowish scales. Foreicing with six small white spots, two at the 

 end of the cell, well separated, one above the other, the upper one somewhat elongate, 

 with three dots joined together in a line on its inner side, two sub-apical small spots, 

 the upper one a mere dot, and two spots placed obliquely at the bases of the median 

 interspaces, the discal stigma dark brown, composed of two curved pieces. Hindwing 

 without mai'kings, with some dull yellowish hairs on the abdominal area. Cilia 

 cinereous, becoming whitish towards the anal angle of the hindwing. Underside pale 

 dull brown. Foreicing with the costa and apex suffused with pale ferruginous, the 

 lower half of the wing suffused with whitish, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing 

 with a broad whitish patch with very irregular sides and with a few small brown marks 

 in it right across the wing, a blackish spot at the end of the cell. Antennae dark 

 brown, on the underside with white spots, the basal half of the club smeared with 

 white, the tip rufous ; palpi, head and body above concolorous with the wings ; below, 

 the palpi, pectus and abdomen are whitish, the thorax grey, the legs brown, with 

 ferruginous tarsi. 



Female like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l\ inches. 



Larva. — Head round, slightly indented on vertex, face convex ; surface rugose, 

 finely hairy all over, the hairs being quite apparent to the naked eye ; clypeus and 

 about the jaws very dark brown, margin and hinder parts also dark brown, the rest 

 dirty yellow, with a broad, central dark brown longitudinal band ; shape of body 

 cylindrical, with a flattened anal segment somewhat rounded at the extremity ; the 

 anal segment covered all over with reddish -brown, star-shaped spots, from each of 

 which springs a short seta ; surface of body covered with fine, erect, colourless hairs, 



