AEEOMACHUS— HALPE. 



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Seven specimens, including two examples of the female, taken at Icliang 

 in June. One of tlie females has tlie number of spots in the submarginal 

 series on underside of primaries increased to six by the addition of one to 

 the costal set. 



I also received specimens of this species from a native collector at Ningpo, 

 in 1886. 



Genus HALPE. 



Halpe, MoorCj Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 689; Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 

 1893, p. 108. 



" Allied to Pamphila {F. sylvanus). Antennae with a more slender club and longer hook at tip. 

 Fore wing shorter ; exterior margin more convex ; the discal oblique series of raised scales 

 in male shorter and broader. Head and thorax smaller ; abdomen slender. Veins similar, 

 the lower median branch being nearer end of the cell." {Moore, I. c.) 



" Type heturia, Hew. 



" Antennte : club moderate, elongate, with a short apical crook, tip acuminate. Palpi porrcct ; 

 third joint minute, obtusely conical. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; 

 cell of fore wing less than two thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa before the 

 end of cell ; upper discocellular about twice the length of lower ; vein 5 considerably nearer 

 to 4 than to 6 ; vein 3 well before end of cell, about equidistant from 2 and from 4 ; vein 2 

 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing evenly rounded ; cell very short ; 

 vein 7 well before end of cell, at its origin vein 7 is sharply bent upwards, and the upper 

 margin of the cell is bent downwards so that the angle is shaped like a tuning-fork ; disco- 

 cellulars faint ; vein 5 not traceable ; vein 3 from end of cell ; vein 2 very much nearer 

 to end of cell than to base of wing ; lower margin of cell slightly angled at vein 2. The 

 above is the neuration of the male ; in the female vein 3 of the fore wing is slightly nearer to 

 end of cell, and on the hind wing vein 7 arises at an acute angle with the upper margin of 

 cell. Hind tibisE slightly fringed and with two pairs of spurs. In most species the male is 

 provided with a linear discal stigma on the fore wing, running obliquely from the origin 

 of vein 3 almost to the inner margin. In those species in which there is no discal stigma, 

 the neuration of both wings of the male agrees with that of the female. 



" Confined to Southern Asia and Japan." ( Watson, I. c.) 



Halpe varia. (Plate XLII. fig. 18, 6 .) 



Pamphila varia, Murray, Ent, Mo. Mag. xi. p. 172 (1875) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 33^ 

 pi. X. fi§. 9 (1889). 



Male. Alis supra brunneis, anticis margine exteriore rcctiuscula, maculis quatuor minimis (una 

 in cellula elongata). Posticis immaculatis. Alis subtus ochraceis (anticis ad marginem 

 interiorem brunneis) venis nigris, anticis maculis duabus discoceUularibus (inferiore majore), 

 alteris duabus in regione exteriore, macula sub-apicali tripartita, lineaque anteciliari nigra. 

 Posticis macula obsoleta basali, macula inter ramos sub-costales sub-flava, alteris duabus inter 

 ramos medianos, lineaque anteciliari nigra. Ciliis albis, ad apiccm anticarum obsolete nigro- 

 maculatis. 



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