58 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



3. Ilerda Oda, Hewitson. Platk XXIV. 6 figs. 9, 10. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue without metallic lustre. Both wings broadly bordered 

 with dark brown. Posterior wing with two lunular black spots crowned with orange at the 

 anal angle. 



Underside ochreous-yellow. Anterior wing with a spot at the end of the cell, and a trans- 

 verse band beyond the middle brown : a submarginal band of pale brown : a black spot 

 bordered with white at the anal angle. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly scarlet 

 irrorated with white and bordered above and below by lunular spots of black and white. 



Female. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with a broad band of orange near 

 the apex. Posterior wing with a broad submarginal band of orange. Underside like the male. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson, W. W. Saunders, and Frederick Moore, from India. 



This species seems to be distinct from the two preceding, and, besides its different colour, 

 has the orange band at the outer margin on the underside of the posterior wing much broader, 

 as in /. Epicles. 



4. Ilerda Epicles. 



Polyommatus Epicles, Godart, Eric. Meth. p. 646. 



Thecla Epicles, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 92. Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 487. 



2 . Heliophorus Belenus, Hilbner, Zutr. f. 785, 786. 



Ilerda Epicles, Horsfield <£• Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 29. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with the basal half glossed with violet- 

 blue. Posterior wing with a broad submarginal band of conical scarlet spots. 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Sylhet and Java. 



There is a variety of this species from Northern India in which the males are without the 

 orange submarginal band of the anterior wing, and the females, instead of the large central 

 orange spot of the anterior wing, have an oblique band of the same colour. 



5. Ilerda Moorei, Hewitson. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant metallic blue. Anterior wing with the apical half dark 

 brown, the costal margin rufous-brown. Posterior wing with the margins broadly rufous- 

 brown : the anal angle with two or more scarlet lunules, the two only at the base of the tail 

 distinct, the inner one marked below by a line of blue. 



Underside orange-yellow, the outer margins rufous, the fringe white. Anterior wing 

 with a spot of brown bordered with white near the anal angle. Posterior wing with the outer 



