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brown : fore wing with the hyaline spots as on the upperside and a very minute 

 white spot in cell 8, a pale suffused macular subterminal band faintly indicated ; 

 hind wing a little warmer in colour than the fore wing by reason of a sprinkling 

 of yellowish-grey scales, an inconspicuous white spot at the base of cell 7, a suffused 

 stramineous spot near the apical third of cell 1 b, and a minute pure white spot 

 in each of cells 2, 3, 4, 5, and (3, those in cells o, 4, and 5 very minute and sometimes 

 wanting, a pale suffused submarginal band faintly indicated. Fringes whitish 

 grey, chequered with brown next the ends of the veins. Body and legs concolorous 

 with the wings; palpi somewhat lighter, the second joint being clothed with ochreous 

 and black scales intermixed. Antennae above dark brown, conspicuously banded 

 with white next the base of the pale red apiculus, spotted with white in front ; club 

 beneath pale ochreous. 



The above description was written before we knew that the insect had been already 

 described, and we therefore print it in the hope that it may prove useful to some 

 who may not have ready access to the original description. 



Hab. Nilgiri hills (Hampson). 



Halpe Ii\ t SIGNIS. 

 Baoris ? insignis, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 391, pi. xxxv. fig. 22 (1886). 



Hab. Singapore (type) ; Tandjong Djatti, Sumatra {Martin). Type in coll. Rothschild 



! Halpe hteie. 

 Halpe hyrie, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 388, pi. G. fig. 34, tf. 



Hab. Naga hills (Doherty). 



! Halpe kumara. . 



Halpe kumara, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 121, pi. ii. fig. 10, d ; Watson, Hesp. 

 Ind. p. 72. 



Hab. Sikkim (Holler). 



! Halpe knyvetti, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 2, d .) 



Besides the characters given in the table above this species has the hind wing 

 below yellow-brown by reason of a close sprinkling of yellow scales on a brown 

 ground : in one specimen there is a faint indication of a tendency to the pattern 

 on the hind wing below found in II. homolea and its allies, in a suffused yellow 

 spot near the apical third of cell 1 b preceded by traces of a dark postmedian 

 macular band ; in the other specimen the hind wing below is somewhat paler along 

 the course of vein 1 b, but is otherwise unmarked. //. knyvetti may, however, be 

 distinguished from any member of the homolea group by the white band on the 

 upperside of the club of its antennas next the apiculus. 



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