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



fore wing darker ; on the fore wing an indistinct subterminal pale macular band 

 from the costa as far as vein 3, and an indication of a small whitish spot near the 

 apical fourth of the upper edge of the cell ; hind wing with the discal and subterminal 

 bands as in homolea, save that the former is directed rather to a point beyond the 

 apex of the wing than to the actual apex as in homolea. Fringe of the fore wing dark 

 grey indistinctly chequered, of the hind wing dark grey with the short scales brown. 



2 . Similar to the male, but having the pale cell-spot on the fore wing visible on 

 the upperside. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



The above particulars are taken from a pair from Ceylon, ex coll. Ilothschild. 

 Moore's figures are not characteristic. 



! Halpe fusca. (Plate XXV. fig. 72.) 

 Halpefusca, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 653, p 1. xliii. fig. ],. 

 Hab. Bernardmyo, Burmah (Doherty). 



! Halpe sitala. 



Halpe sitala, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1885, p. 121, pi. ii. fig. 5, 6 ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. 

 p. 75 (1891). 



Hab. Nilgiris (Hampson) ; Arnamalai hills (Davison). 

 Halpe lateis. 



Halpe latris, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 623, pi. xlii. fig. 17, £ . 



Chiefly differs from //. sitala in having the dorsum of the hind wing below blackish 

 as far as vein 1 b. 



Hab. Ta-tsien-lo (Leech). 



! Halpe varia. 



Pamphila varia, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 172 (1875). 



Halpe varia, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 621, pi. xlii. fig. 18, d (1894). 



Hab. Japan (Pri/er, Leech). 



! Halpe gupta. 



Halpe gupta, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 255, pi. xi. fig. 1, 3 ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. 

 p. 73 (1891). 



Hab. Sikkim (Moller). 



Halpe debilis, n. sp. (Plate XXI. figs. 1 d , 5 $ .) 



d Upperside brown : fore wing with six sordid white hyaline spots — two oblong, 

 one each in cells 2 and 3, three small and oblong, one each in cells 6, 7, and 8 ; the 



