228 ^YMPHALlDiE. 



greyish black, abdomen yellowish white ; beneath, the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white, the thorax with a conspicuous obliquely trans- 

 verse black line on each side. 



Exp. tf $ 98-121 mm. (3-85-4-75"). 



Hab. Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 



Genus HELCYRA. 



Helcyra, Felder, Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, xl, 1860, p. 450; de K. 

 Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 45; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 267. 



Type, H. cliionippe, Felder, from Amboina. 



Range. Sikhim ; the hills of Assam and Upper Burma, extending 

 to China, Java and Amboina. 



<3 2 - Fore wing broadly triangular ; costa moderately arched ; 

 apex subacute ; termen straight ; tornus broadly rounded ; dorsum 

 straight ; cell open, upper and middle discocellulars in an oblique 

 line; vein 9 from middle of vein 7, 10 from 7 well beyond origin 

 of latter vein, 11 free. Hind wing irregularly ovate ; costa slightly 

 arched; apex well marked; termen arched slightly, scalloped, 

 produced into a well-marked tooth at apex of vein 4, with shorter 

 projections at apices of veins 1, 2 and 3 ; tornus bluntly angular, 

 dorsum forming a broad abdominal fold ; cell open ; veins 5, 6 

 and 7 from a point well removed from base of 8. Antennae long, 

 over half length of fore wing; club broad, abrupt, flattened, 

 spatular ; palpi broad in front, third joint conical ; eyes naked ; 

 thorax moderately robust ; intermediate and posterior legs long, 

 tibiae only sparsely spined, spines very short. 



254. Helcyra hemina, Heicitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 245, 

 pi. 15, fig. 1 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 45, pi. 19, fig. 83 3 ; 

 Etwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 338 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893- 

 96, p. 268, pi. 190, figs. 2, 2«, J . 



S 2 • Upperside silvery white. Fore wing : a minute spot at 

 origin of vein 7, a transversely oval spot 

 obliquely b4ow it, and a postdiscal spot 

 in interspace 1 black ; the apical third of 

 the wing also black, with an outwardly 

 curved, irregular, sinuous inner margin 

 from just beyond middle of costa to tornus, 

 and two preapical spots of the ground- 

 colour, the lower the larger. Hind wing 

 with the following blaek markings : three 

 subtornul spots, two in interspace 1, one 

 in interspace 2 ; two postdiscal, in echelon 

 to the others, and three subcostal in line 

 further inwards in interspaces 5, 6 and 7 

 m f ' • ' , respectively; finally a slender sinuous sub- 



a terminal line. Underside silvery white 



with a slight bluish tinge ; markings of upperside more or 

 less shoeing through by transparency. Fore wing with a short, 

 transverse, postdiscal, slender, darx brown line in each of the 



