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Female. Upperside blackish-brown, with a brown pink tint. Foreiving with a 

 discal, oblique orange band, fairly uniform in width, varying somewhat in its width in 

 different examples. Hindwing with an acutely lunular orange marginal thin l)and, 

 the spaces between the acute outward points filled in with black. Cilia brown and 

 white. Underside like the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ ly^- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Kumaun, Burman Hills. 



Distribution. — Lang took it at Naini Tal, de Niceville records it from Sikkim, 

 4,000 feet, and Kumaon, 5,000 to 7,000 feet, Elwes from the Naga Hills, Manders 

 from the Shan States, and it is in the B. M. also from Thibet and Western China. 



HELIOPHORUS EPICLES. 



Plate 663, figs. 2, $ , la., ? , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, $ , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Polyommatiis epicles, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 646 (1823). 



Thecla epicles, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 92, pi. i. fig. 3, $ (1829). 



Ilerda epicles, Hewitpon, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. .58 (186.5). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 325 



(1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soo. 1890, 



p. 386. Watson, id. 1891, p. 49, and 1897, p. 665. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 635. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 301. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 408, pi. 30, fig. 6, $ 



(1893). 

 Meliopltorus belenus, Hubner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. figs. 785, 786, 9 (1832). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish-brown, with a strong violet tinge, veins in 

 some specimens more or less prominent. Forewing with an obscure blackish spot at the 

 end of the cell. Hindwing with a marginal band of acutely angled orange-red lunules 

 from the anal angle to vein 4, followed by two or three obscure spots of the .same 

 colour ; there are as a rule only two complete lunules, and half of another, with the 

 space inside the points filled in with black ; on the outside of these lunules is a white line 

 which stops at the uppei' end of the fourth interspace, terminal line black, tail black, tipped 

 with white.. Cilia of both wings white, tipped with brown, with brown patches at the 

 vein ends. Underside dark, bright chrome-yellow. Forewing with a narrow scarlet-red 

 outer marginal band which is contracted upwards to the apex, has at the hinder angle a 

 white patch with a thick black streak in it, the white running up finely on the inner 

 side of the red band in the two next interspaces edged inwardly by a very fine black 

 line. Hindwing with a broad outer marginal band lined on the inner side by white 

 angulated lunules, edged finely on both sides with black, terminal line black, with an 

 inner white line, both interrupted by the very acute outer angles of the orange-red 

 band, the inner portion of these angles being filled in with black. 



