264 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWARDS: 



! Halpe nephele. 

 Halpe nephele, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 622, pi. xlii. fig. 15, 6 (1894). 

 Hab. Western China {Leech). 



Halpe majdscula, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 6, 6 .) 



6 . Upperside brown : fore wing with the usual Halpe sex-mark and four sordid 

 yellowish hyaline spots, one each near the base of cells 2 and 3, and one (small 

 and roundish or subquadrate) in each of cells 6 and 7. Underside grey-brown : 

 fore wing with the pale spots as on the upperside and a narrow feeble, suffused, 

 macular subterminal band ; hind wing with a broad suffused macular median band 

 and a subterminal band of about four suffused pale spots, of which the one near the 

 apical third of cell 1 b is more than twice as large as the others. Fringe of the 

 fore wing grey-brown, of the hind wing dark grey with the short scales grey-brown. 

 Body above brown, breast and legs with grey clothing ; abdomen beneath blackish, 

 hind margins of the segments with a band of grey scales. Antennas above dark brown, 

 spotted beneath with yellowish grey ; club yellowish grey beneath ; apiculus pale red 

 on the underside. 



This species is very like H. nephele, Leech, but the markings on the hind wing 

 below are paler and more suffused. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. Minahassa. 



Described from one example ex coll. Staudinger. 



! Halpe sulphukifera. 



Cobalus sulphurifera, Herrich-Schaffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. hi. p. 82 (1867). 

 ? Hesperilla luteisquama, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. cxcix. 

 Halpe sulphurifera, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 305 (1892). 



A specimen of H. luteisquama sent by M. Mabille has cell 1 a on the fore wing below 

 entirely brown ; in Philippine specimens of H. sulphurifera this cell is crossed near 

 the middle by an oblique white spot, which reaches from vein 1 a to vein 2, and is 

 constricted near the middle in the female, but is less developed and scarcely reaches 

 vein 2 in the male. It may be a distinct species. 



Hab. Luzon, Mindoro, Guimaras, Bohol, Leyte, Sulu I. (Semper) ; Moupin (fide 

 Mabille). 



! Halpe sikkima. (Plate XXV. fig. 70.) 



Halpe sikkima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 407 ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 70 (1891). 

 Pamphila hornolea, var. palaivea, Staudinger, Iris, ii. pp. 144, 165 (1889). 

 Halpe palaivea, Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 358 (1892). 



Judging from a specimen sent by Semper palawea is certainly not separable as a 

 species from sikkima, of which the type is in Elwes's collection. 



