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A specimen from Kina Balu, Borneo, sent by Staudinger. only differs from a 

 specimen from East Pegu in wanting the pale spot in cell 7 of the fore wing. 

 Hab. Sikkim (Elwes) ; Nagas, E. Pegu (Doherty) ; Palawan (Platen). 



! Halpe homolea. (Plate XXV. fig. 71 ) 



Hesperia homolea, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 29 (1868); Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 71, note (1891). 

 Halpe sikkima, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 453 (in part.), pi. xi. figs. 3, 4, <J. 

 Halpe aucma, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 325, sec. spec. typ. 

 Halpe per ar a, id. 1. c, sec. spec. typ. 

 Halpe marta, id. 1. c, sec. spec. typ. 

 Halpe ivantona, id. 1. c, sec. spec. typ. 



Hab. Sikkim (Elwes); Nagas, E. Pegu, Pulo Laut, Perak, Bali (Doherty). 



In Wafson and de Niceville's opinion this species is doubtfully distinct from 

 //. siJckima, and the occurrence of both in Sikkim, Nagas, and Pegu would tend to 

 confirm this opinion, but the genitalia of numerous specimens examined by 

 Mr. Edwards prove the species to be distinct. 



We are indebted to Col. Swinhoe for the opportunity of examining the male 

 genitalia of his four species mentioned above. 



A specimen in coll. Rothschild from Palawan (Everett), expanding only 25 mm., 

 appears to belong here ; this may be the " Pamphila homolea, Hew. ?, var. Ipalaivea " 

 of Dr. Staudinger (Iris, ii. p. 144, 1889), which he subsequently (t. e. p. 165) elevated 

 to the rank of a species ; but it is to be remarked that whilst Dr. Staudinger's insect 

 is stated by him to be separable from homolea by the want of any hyaline cell-spot on 

 the fore wing, the specimen before us has two cell-spots on the fore wing, of which the 

 upper one only is truly hyaline, the lower one being visible on the underside only. 



Halpe hieron. 



Halpe hieron, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1894, p. 54, pi. iv. fig. 1, d. 



c? . Upperside grey-brown; pale spots proper to the fore wing obsolete or absent; 

 no sex-mark. Underside pale brownish grey, closely and irregularly clothed with 

 whitish-grey scales so as to indicate a pale macular subterminal band on the fore wing 

 and a pale postmedian band on the hind wing ; a suffused whitish-grey spot in each 

 of cells 2 and 3 of the fore wing. 



Expanse 29-31 mm. 



Hab. Bekantschan, N.E. Sumatra (Martin). 



Halpe brunnea. 



Halpe brunnea, Moore, Lep. Cey. i. p. 174, pi. Ixx. figs. 4, 4 a, ? (1880-81). 



J . Upperside dark vinous brown : fore wing with four small hyaline white spots — 

 one crescent-shaped in cell 2, one much smaller and roundish in cell 3, one punctiform 

 in cell 6, and one very minute in cell 7. Underside pale vinous brown, uisc of the 



