1897.] Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions. 575 



I will not repeat the description here, but take this opportunity to 

 figure both sexes. 



29. Halpe hyrtacus, n. sp., Plate III, Fig. 22, c? . 

 Habitat: Wynaad ; North Kanara — both in South India. 

 Expanse : tf, 13 to 15 ; ? , 16 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings and cilia shining dark 

 hair-brown. Forewing with two dots placed obliquely outwards 

 towa,rds the end of the discoidal cell, one or both sometimes absent ; 

 three conjugated subapical dots, and two on the disc at the bases of the 

 median interspaces, all these dots colourless and transparent ; the. 

 " male-mark " shining deep black and narrow. Hindwing immaculate. 

 Underside, both wings dull fuscous. Forewing with the transparent dots 

 as on the upperside ; the inner margin very broadly white crossed in the 

 middle by the " male-mark ; " the costa outwardly tinted with ochreous ; 

 the apex bearing some obscure elongated dark dashes outwardly bor- 

 dered with ochreous. Hindwing bearing a broad discal pure white 

 band, broadest on the abdominal margin, not reaching the costa, 

 anteriorly marked with one or two dark brown dots, sometimes with two 

 or three in the middle; the outer dark half of the wing bearing some 

 obscure ochreous spots. Palpi above, thorax and abdomen concolorous 

 with the wings, beneath and legs yellowish-white. Female. Upper- 

 side, both wings as in the male, but the ground-colour paler. Forewing 

 with no " male-mark." Underside, both wings as in the male. 



Nearest to Halpe brunnea, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 174, pi. lxx, 

 figs. 4, 4a, female (1881), with which it agrees closely on the upperside 

 except that the transparent dots are even smaller than in the same sex 

 of that species ; the " male-mark " is quite the same ; differing, how- 

 ever, on the underside by the presence of the large white area on the 

 inner margin of the forewing, and the broad discal white band on the 

 hindwing. H. hyrtacus is a very distinct species, and cannot be con- 

 founded with any other. 



Described from a single example kindly given to me by Mr. V. S. 

 Fellowes Wilson, who captured it at Pandalur in the Wynaad District 

 on the 2nd September, 1895. Also from three males and a female in 

 the collection of Mr. T. R. Bell, who bred them at Tarimpur in the 

 North Kanara District in February and March, 1895. The transforma- 

 tions of the species will be found described in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, vol. xi, p. 49, n. 212 (1897). 



30. Halpe hazis, n. sp., Plate IV, Fig. 27, c? . 

 Habitat : Nias Island. 



Expanse : $ , 115 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings hair-brown ; cilia 

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