280 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



HALPE HYRIE. 



Plate 821, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ^. 



Halpe h;ir!e, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 388, pi. G, fig. 34, <J . Elwes, Proc. 

 Z(M)I. Soc. 1892, p. 653. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 327. 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. 



Halpe dehilis, Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 266, pi. 21, figs. 1, <J , 5, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown. Foreioing with six ochreous-white 

 spots, two inside the end of the cell, one above the other, touching each other, two 

 small sub-apical spots of equal size, and two in the disc in the median interspaces, the 

 lower one sub-quadrate and three times as large as the upper spot ; the base of the 

 wing with some dull ochreous-coloured hairs. Cilia grey, whitish at the tips, with 

 l)rown patches. Hindu: ing unmarked, all but the outer marginal space covered with 

 dull ochreous hairs. Cilia grey, with its base brown. Antennae black, the shaft dotted 

 with yellowish-white on the underside, the club below smeared with yellowish-white. 

 Underside. Forewing with the costal space and apex (broadly) suffused with ochreous- 

 rcd, the rest of the wing blackish-brown, the spots as on the upperside. Hindwing 

 entirely and uniformly ochreous-red, a discal series of pale spots and a white spot 

 towards the base of interspace 6. 



Female like the male, the spots of the forewing larger, an additional spot on the 

 middle of the sub-median vein, in a line with the two discal spots. 



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



Habitat. — Naga Hills, cikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The type from the Naga Hills is in the Indian Lluseum, Calcutta ; 

 de Niceville records it from Sikkim ; we have it from the Khasia Hills, from whence 

 the types of dehilis came. 



HALPE SEPARATA. 



Plate 822, figs. I, $ , la, ? , lb, <J . 



Halpe separata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 407. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 p. 138. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 454, pi. 11, figs. 5, <^ , 6, ?. Watson, Hesp. Ind. 

 p. 71 (1891). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 653. 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. 267. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 371. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside Ijlackish-brown. Forewing rather broader than usual, 

 the hinder margin a good deal longer than the outer margin, spots semi-diaphanous. 



