278 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



HALPE BRUNNEA. 



Plate 820, figs. 4, <J , 4a, ? , 4b, 9 . 



Haipe hrunnea, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 174, pi. 70, figs. 4, 4a, 9 (1881). Watson, Hesp. Ind. 

 p. 76 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 109 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hi.st. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 265. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, nearly pure black. Ftn-ewimi 

 with four sordid white, semi-hyaline small spots, two sub-apical, the upper one minute, 

 and two discal, placed oblii^uely near the bases of the median interspaces. Hindichui 

 unmarked. Cilia of forewing blackish-brown ; of hindwing with the base brown, tips 

 white. Underside paler, ochreous-tinted. Forewing with the margins a little paler 

 than the inner portion, the spots as on the upperside, ochreous-tinted, an indistinct 

 sub-marginal series of small ochreous spots. Hindwing with a discal series of similar 

 spots and some indistinct dull ochreous-grey streaks in the cell and on the abdominal 

 area. Antennae black, greyish on the underside, the club with an orange-red tip ; 

 palpi, head and body concolorous with the wings, below the body and legs are brown, 

 the palpi and pectus ochreous-grey. 



Female like the male, but there is a small white spot in the cell near its upper 

 end and another small spot on the middle of the sub-median vein in a line with the 

 two discal spots. 



Expanse of wings, <? $ ly*Q inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Described and figured from a pair in the B. M. 



HALPE KUMARA. 



Plate 821, figs. 1, <J,la, ?, lb, $. 



Halpe Jcumara, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 121, pi. 2, fig. 10, ^ . Elwes, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 454. Watson, He.sp. Ind. p. 72 (1891). de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, 

 Butt. p. 184 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 261. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep bronzy-brown. Forewing with five equal-sized 

 pale ochreous spots, one at the upper end of the cell, two sub-apical, divided from 

 each other by the A'ein, and two in the disc, close to the bases of the second and first 

 median interspaces. Hindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings pale ochreous, 

 dusky at the ends of the veins in the forewing. Underside dark brown, the costa 

 and apical portion of the forewing and the entire surface of the hindwing covered with 



