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HESPEKIID^. 



basilaire allongee, egalement argeutee, ct il y a deux petites tacbes de meme couleur, Tune 

 submarginale, entre les deux longs traits, I'autre au-dessous du trait inferieur. 

 " Los 2)attes sont jaune d'ocre. Les antennes sont fiuement annelees dc blauchatre et de brun en 

 dessus ; elles sont ocbracees en dessous." (Oberihiir, ]. c.) 



Not uncommon in Western China at Ta-cliien-lu, Wa-ssu-kow, Pu-tsu-fong, 

 and Chia-kou-ho, in May, June, and July. 



In his explanation of plates, Etud. xi, p. 38, M. Oberthiir refers to this 

 insect as albimtta. 



Halpe gupta. (Plate XLII. fig. 20, 6 .) 

 Halpe gupta, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Iv. p. 251, pi. xi. fig. 1, ^ (1886). 



" Male. Upperside, both wings dark brown. Fore wing with two small spots in the cell placed 

 obliquely one above the other, obsolete in one specimen, two or three conjoined subapical 

 minute spots, two on the disc divided by the second median nervule. Hind wing witli some 

 long ochreous hairs in the middle of the disc. Upperside, fore wing with the costa and apex 

 diminishing towards the anal angle, and the whole of the hind wing clothed with grcenish- 

 ochreous scales. Pore wing marked as above. Hind wing with two or three small pale 

 opaque spots on the disc. Cilia cinereous, tipped with darker at the ends of the nervules. 



" Expanse d 1*4 to 1"5 inches. 



''Hah. Sikkim. 



" Near to II. knmara, mihi, differs somewhat in shape, the fore wing being narrower and more 

 produced at the apex, the subapical spots smaller. On the underside in If. gupta tliere are 

 some pale spots on the disc of the hind wing, which are absent in //. l-umara. Tlie shade of 

 the ground-colour is also quite different: in //. Icumara it is golden brown, in ll. gupta 

 greenish oclircous. The sexual mark is rather prominent. Mr. Otto MiilkT lias obtained 

 several male specimens in Sikkim." {de Niceville, I. c.) 



I have two male specimens from Wa-ssu-kow, Western China, where they 

 were taken in July at an elevation of 5000 feet. These differ from a series of 

 twelve specimens (including the type) from Sikkim in the late Otto M oiler's 

 collection in being greyer on the under surface, and tlie spots on the under 

 surface of the secondaries are rather more elongate. 



The peculiar cliaractcr of the sexual brand in this species at once separates 

 it from any other known to me. 



Halpe lucasi. 



Ilfisncrilla liicasii, INIabillc, Anu. Soc. Tint. France, 1870, p. cliii. 



" Nigro-olivacca, alis nnticis 5-0 puncta gorontibus, unum elongato-(iuii(h'atum in cxtrcinn collula, 

 duo apicem versus in mare, tria in foniina, parva et duo obliijua infra lumchun celiularo, 

 «trig;« nigru; marginem internum atlingenti conjunctu omnia rufeola, subiiyalina ; fimbria 



