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what dull purple or brown with a purple reflection, with often an 

 orange spot just beyond the cell of the forewing. Two specimens from 

 8,000 ft. in Sikkim and one from Shillong, however, show a reflection of an 

 intenser, much purer blue, quite unlike the tint of typical epicles , and there 

 is no trace of the orange spot. A female taken in company with one of 

 these males also differs from the ordinary females of epicles in having the 

 preapical orange band on the forewing narrow, and the lunular red terminal 

 border on the upperside of the hindwing very linear and reduced. The 

 undersides of the two forms are identical. 



There are a few insects of the same colouring in the de Niceville collection 

 under the name phoenicoparyphus, Holland, also from Sikkim. This latter 

 ■species has not been included in the genus in de Niceville's Butt, of India, 

 and I cannot say whether he finally decided to keep it distinct. An exami- 

 nation of the genital organs will settle the matter. 



Ilerda viridipunctata. de Niceville. 



Ilerda brahma. Moore. 



Both these species are fairly common in Sikkim, but the dividing line in 

 the altitudes at which they are respectively found is rather striking. 

 I. viridipunctata is never found below 6,000 ft.; below this one seems to come 

 at once into the brahma habitat. In Kumaon, the latter ranges higher, 

 having been taken at about 7,000 ft. 



Camena aster. Hewitson. 



de Niceville, in Butt, of India, Vol. Ill, page 344, only describes the female: 

 and in the Journal of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. VII, page 335, and 

 pl.H, fig. 10, he describes and figures the male of a new species as C. carmen 

 talis, remarking that the latter "is not improbably the latter sex of C. ister." 

 The examination of a fairly long series of both brought in by native collec- 

 tors from Cherrapunji in the Khasi Hills leaves no doubt in my mind that 

 C. carmentalis is the hitherto undescribed male of C. ister ; and the former 

 - ame must therefore be sunk. 



Tajuria istroidea. de Niceville. 



So far only recorded from Sikkim. Also occtirs rarely in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cherrapunji. 



Zeltus etolus. Fabricius. 



This is one of those species in which the male is extremely common 

 while the female is very rare. The former may be taken literally by 

 hundreds all over the Sikkim and Bhutan Terais and near the foot of the 

 Assam hills ; but in all my collecting I have never yet seen a female. 



L0XURA (genus). Horsfield. 

 I have species of this genus from the North-Western sub-Himalayas, the 

 Sikkim and Bhutan Terais, Assam, the Western Ghats and from the 

 Andaman Islands ; and have endeavoured to trace the characteristics on 



