282 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA 



HALPE ALBIPECTUS. 



Plate 822, figs. 3, <^ , 3a, ? , 3b, i . 



Halpe alhipecius, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 389, pi. G, figs. 3.5, <? , 36, $. 

 Watson, id. ix. 1895, p. 435. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 267. Adamson, 

 Trans. N. H. Soc. Northumberland, etc. 1908, p. 145. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown. Forewing with seven sordid white, semi- 

 transparent, small spots, two within the end of the cell, well separated, one above the 

 other, two in the disc of about the same size as the cell spots, placed slightly inwardly 

 oblique in the median interspaces, a little before their middle, and three smaller spots, 

 sub-apical, divided from each other by the veins, and in a nearly outwardly oblique 

 straight line. IlindwiiKj unmarked. Cilia of forewing brown, becoming white towards 

 the hinder angle ; of hindwing cinereous, with white tips, becoming white towards the 

 anal angle. Underside. Foreicing brown, the costa, apex and upper three-fourths of the 

 outer margin pinkish-grey, the spots as on the upperside, a whitish, even-sided bar in 

 the interno-median interspace below the discal spots, a doable sub-marginal series of 

 whitish points in pairs in the interspaces, with brown spots between them. Hindwing 

 with the ground colour pinkish-grey, a discal and a sub-marginal series of brown spots 

 with small white spots on their inner sides, the brown spot in interspace 4 of the discal 

 series large, the lowest spot of both series white and somewhat prominent, a brown 

 spot at the end of the cell and four spots in pairs, touched with white above it. 

 Antennae brown, with white dots, the shaft and club whitish on the underside ; palpi, 

 head and body above concolorous with the wings, palpi and head with some white 

 hairs, collar greyi-sh ; beneath the palpi, pectus and body are white, the legs brown 

 above, white beneath, the tarsi pinkish-ochreous. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The typo male from Thoungyin is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, the type female in Coll. Elwes ; our description and figures are from a pair in 

 the B. M. from the Ataran Valley, taken by Bingham in February, 1893 ; there is an 

 example in the Hancock Museum, Xewcastle, from Kathapa, in the hills west of the 

 Chindwin Eiver, taken by Adamson in February, 1894 ; Inlanders got a male at Mairgyi 

 in the Shan States, 10th March, 1888; de Niceville also records it from the Meplay 

 ^' alley. 



