102 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Pupa. — Exactly 0"4 of an inch in length, of the usual lycsenid shape, Wuntly 

 rounded at both ends, the thorax sliglitly humped, a little constricted where it joins 

 the first abdominal segment ; coloration pale greenish, profusely sprinkled with 

 blackish, entirely without markings, the whole surface roughened, being covered with 

 minute points, but not hairy. I am indebted to Mr. P. W. Mackinnon for the two 

 larvae and a pupa described above. He observed a female /. sena ovipositing on sorrel 

 leaves, and on searching found three larvae, one of which turned to a pupa on the long 

 journey to me by post of 1,000 miles, occupying three days in transit. These specimens 

 were ol)tained at Masuri, in the Western Himalayas, at 6,000 feet elevation, early in 

 March. Mr. Mackinnon assures me that ants do not attend this larva, and I was unable 

 to find any extensile tubercles on the twelfth segment or a mouth-like opening on the 

 eleventh. Dr. G. King has kindly identified the food plant for me as Rumex hastatus. 

 (de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas, a common insect there up to 3,000-9,000 feet. 



HELIOPHORUS BRAHMA. 



Plate 663, figs. 1, (J, la, ? , lb, $ , \c, ? . 



Jlerda hrahna, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 29, pi. la, tig. 4, (J (1857). Staudinger, Ex. 



Schmett. p. 274, pi. 95, S (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 330 (liDO). Manders, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. Ehves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 636. Leech, Butt, of 

 China, etc. ii. p. 405 (1893). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside glittering coppery gold colour. Forewing with a 



narrow costal black band, a very broad black outer marginal band, very broad at the 



apex, occupying a third of the wing, narrows gradually to the first interspace whore its 



inner edo-e curves round on to the hinder margin. Ilindicing with a broad black 



maroinal band, which runs along the costa and widens at the apex in an even curve 



down to the outer margin, where it runs into a broad orange l^and with lunular edges of 



black, all the black on both wings shot with a coppery gold sheen ; tails black, tipped 



with white. Cilia white, with brown patches. Underside dull dark ochreous. Foreicim/ 



with a thin grey discal band or thick line in an even outer curve from the costa to 



vein 2, a whitish patch at the hinder angle containing a black bar-shaped spot, with 



indications of a grey thin sub-marginal band upwards, a series of very indistinct 



angulated golden marginal spots, only visible in certain lights, and a golden grey 



terminal line. Ilindicing with a thin discal line, slightly outwardly curved, indistinct, 



and its lower portion more or less obsolescent, a narrow marginal orange baud, the 



upper half separated somewhat from the margin, inwardly edged with white thin 



lunules capped with grey, a coppery golden terminal line, inwardly edged by a white 



line with a series of angulated black spots. Cilia of both wings down to the tail 



whitish, with a golden red base, below the tail with a black base. 



