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species, resembling Zephyrus, but recognisable at once by the 

 very characteristic colouring of the under side. The males are 

 generally blue, green, or coppery above (at least at the base), 

 with black borders, and often with a sub-marginal orange-red 

 band (or rather a row of connected lunules above black spots) 

 on the hind-wings ; and the females are brown, with a short 

 transverse orange bar on the fore-wings, and a sub-marginal 

 orange band, as in the males ; the fringes are spotted with 

 black and white. The under side is of a peculiar greenish- 

 yellow, with obsolete (if any) markings, except towards the 

 margins. Towards the hinder angle of the fore wings are one or 

 two black spots surrounded with white, and sometimes edged 

 within with a white line ; the hind-wings have a sub-marginal 

 orange-red band bordered within with white, of which there is 

 sometimes a trace on the fore-wings also. The species are most 

 easily distinguished by the different colours of the upper side 

 in the male. 



The type is 



HELIOPHORUS EPICLES. 



Polyommatus epides, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 666, no. 109 



(1823). 

 Theda epides, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 92, no. 25, 



pi. i, fig. 3 (1829). 

 Ikrda epides, Hewitson, Illustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 58, no. 4 



(1865); De Niceville, Butterflies, Ind. iii. p. 225 (1890); 



Leech, Butterflies of China, Japan, and Corea, p. ^18, 



pi. 30, fig. 6 (1893). 

 Heliophorus belenus, Geyer, in Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. 



iv. p. 40, figs. 785, 786 (1832). 



This is one of the commonest species of the genus through- 

 out Northern India, Burma, Java, and parts of China, It 

 measures rather less than an inch and a half across the wings, 



