624 HESPERIID^. 
basilaire allongee, cgalement argeutce, et il y a deux petites taches de meme couleur, Tune 
submarginale, entre les deux longs traits, I'autre au-dessous du trait inferieur. 
" Les pattes sont jaune d'oere. Les autenues sent fiuement annelees de blauchatre et de brun en 
dessus ; elks sont ocbracees en de.ssous." {Oherthur, I. c.) 
Not uncommon in Western China at Ta-chien-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 albivitta. 
Halpe gupta. (Plate XLII. fig. 20, 6 .) 
Halpe yupta, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Iv. p. 254, pi. xi. fig. 1, ^ (1886). 
" Male. Upperside, both wings dark brown. Fore wing with two small spots in the cell placed 
obliqiieh' one above the other, obsolete in one specimen, two or three conjoined subapical 
minute spots, two on the disc divided bj- the second median uervule. Hind wing with some 
long oohreous 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 greenish- 
ochreous scales. Fore 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 S 1"4 to 1-5 inches. 
"Hah. Sikkim. 
" Near to H. kumara, mihi, differs somewhat in shape, the fore wing being narrower and more 
produced at the apex, the subapical spots smaller. On the underside in H. gupta- there are 
some pale spots on the disc of the hind wing, which are absent in H. kumara. The shade of 
the ground-colour is also quite different : in H. kumara it is golden brown, in H. gupta 
greenish ochreous. The sexual mark is rather prominent, ilr. Otto Mbller has obtained 
several male specimens in Sikkim." {de Nicevillt', 1. 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 diiFer from a series of 
twelve specimens (including the type) from Sikkim in the late Otto Moller's 
collection in being greyer on the under surface, and the spots on the under 
surface of the secondaries are rather more elongate. 
The peculiar character of the sexual brand in this species at once separates 
it from any other known to me. 
Halpe lucasi. 
Hesmrilla lucasii, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1876, p. cliii. 
" Xigro-olivacea, alls anticis 5-6 puncta gerentlbus, unum elongato-quadratum in extrema cellula, 
duo apioem versus in mare, tria in femina, parva et duo obliqua infra punctum cellulare, 
striga) nigra; marginem internum attingenti conjuncta omnia rufeola, subhyalina ; fimbria 
