104 LEPIDOPTEEA INDIC'A. 



Female. Upperside dark brown without the violet tinge. Foreivinfi with a large 

 orange-red, outwardly oblique fascia in the upper disc. lUndwing with a marginal 

 l)aud of fine rather broad lunules from the anal angle decreasing in size upwards, the 

 space inside the outer points black, two fine white and black marginal lines as in the 

 male interrupted by the red luuule points. Underside as in the male. Antennae black, 

 ringed with wliite ; head and Ijody lilackish-brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^^, ? Iro inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, t, 2d, $). 



Male. Upperside. Forewhuj more glossed with the violet tint, leaving the costal 

 and outer marginal spaces as if with broad bands, an orange-red small patch in the 

 upper disc varying in size in different examples. Hindw'mg as in the other form. 

 Underside also very similar, but there are indications of a discal black disjointed line on 

 the forewing which in most examples is only apparent in the first two or three lower 

 interspaces ; and there are often some white more or less lunular discal marks on the 

 hind wing. 



Female, like the same sex of the Wet-season brood, but the orange-red band in 

 the upper disc of the forewing above is broader. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly-Q, ? 1-^-q inches. 



Habitat. — The Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Upper Burma, China, and 

 Java. 



A common species, with a wide northern range in India. 



HELIOPHORUS VIRIDIPUNCTATA. 



Plate 663, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Hcnla viridipunctaia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 329, pi. 28, fig. 20", <J (1890). Elwes, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 635. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 40.n, pi. 30, fig. 3, $ (1893). 

 Ilcrda tamu, Hewitson (nee Kollar), 111. Diurn. Lep. p. -57 (1865). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 



p. 773, and 1882, p. 2-18. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blackish-brown, nearly pure black. Forewing 

 with the centre portion from the base to two-thirds its length covered with metallic 

 green scales, not extending below the sub-median vein. Ilindwing with the inner 

 portion very sparsely covered with similar scaling, two thin ochreous-red lunules on the 

 outer margin from the anal angle ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia lilackish at base, 

 white at the tips, a very fine anteciliary blue line outside the red lunules. Underside 

 dull chrome-yellow, colour and markings as in //. moorei, except that the discal line of 

 the hindwing is curved inwards in the tliird interspace and runs obscurely towards the 

 abdominal marrin. 



