268 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
HELCYRA HEMINA (Plate 190, figs. 2, 2a ¢). 
Helcyra Hemina, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1864, p. 245, pl. 15, fig. 1, ¢. de Nicéville, 
Butt. of India, ii. p. 45, pl. xix. fig. 85, ¢ (1886). 
Tmaco.—Male and female. Upperside pale olivescent pearly-white. Forewing 
with a broad purpurescent-black decreasing apical band, the inner edge of which is 
very irregular and its lower end fromthe middle median narrow, marked by a slight 
white lunular streak above the posterior angle; obliquely across the band before the 
apex are two white spots; two obliquely-superposed black spots at end of the cell, 
the upper spot smal] ; and between the lower median veinlet and submedian vein is 
another black spot near the angle. Hindwing with a submarginal series of eight smaller 
black spots, placed in eschelon, three being inwardly disposed anteriorly, two in the 
middle, and the subanal, followed by a narrow black marginal lunular line and a 
slender anteciliar line. Underside glossy pearly-white. Both wings with the 
markings of the upperside indistinctly visible and bluish-tinted. Forewing also with 
a very slightly-defined slender black sinuous line extending from middle of the lower 
radial to the middle median veinlet. Hindwing also with a very slender black sinuous 
discal line placed before the transverse spots of the upperside, these spots being bluish- 
tinted, and the third subanal spot being bright yellow with blue and black scaled tip. 
Body white; front of thorax and head grey; palpi above dark brown; antennex 
black above, ochreous beneath ; legs white; eyes red. 
Expanse, 24 to 3 inches. 
Hasitat.—Sikkim ; Khasia and Naga Hills; Upper Burma. 
DistrisuTion.—This beautiful species is rare. Mr. Otto Moller took males in 
Sikkim in April, May, and September, and a single female at Singla, near Darjiling, 
1300 feet, in October, 1884. A male from the Naga Hills is in the British Museum, 
Calcutta (de Nicéville, Butt. Ind. ii. 45). ‘A very rare butterfly, which occurs 
singly in Sikkim during the summer. It is less rare in the Daling division of 
Darjiling, where it occurs at 4000 feet. Mr. G. C. Dudgeon once took a specimen 
himself at 3000 feet in Darjiling, and found that it flies very swiftly, which may help 
to account for its scarcity in collections ” (de Nicéville, Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 134). 
Specimens from the Khasia Hills are in Mr. P. Crowley’s collection. ‘Mr. W. 
Doherty obtained a male in the Naga Hills, and four at the Ruby Mine district, 
north of Mandalay, Burma, in June” (P. Z. 8., 1891, 273). 
CHINESE AND Marayan Hetoyras. 
Heleyra superba, Leech, Entomologist, 1890, p. 189; Lep. China, etc. p. 152, pl. xx. fig. 2 (1891). 
Habitat. W. China. 
Helcyra sp.? (Qf. Snellen, Tijd. v. Entom. 1894, p. 78). Habitat. Java (Coll. Mus. Leyden), 
Heleyra chionippe, Felder, Sitzb, Akad. Wiss. Wien. 1860, p. 450; Neues, Lep. p. 46, pl. 1 (1861). 
Habitat. Amboina. 
