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Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with an oblique slightly curved orange-red 

 band in the upper disc. Hindmnr/ with a marginal band of thin orange-red lunules. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? lyg inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Kumaon, Naga Hills, Western China. 



Distribution. — It is in our collection from Sikkim and in the B. M. from all the 

 other localities mentioned, also from Bhutan. It is a good species, perfectly distinct 

 from androcles, moorei, or tamu ; Doherty says it can easily be distinguished by the 

 prehensores, the clasp seen from the side is very broad and rounded at the end, with a 

 line of strono- Ijent hooks ; the uncus from the side is shorter than in coruscans and its 

 branches are more bent. 



HELIOPHORUS TAMU. 



Plate 664, figs. 1, (?, la, ?, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, i , Id, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Pohjommatus tamu, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), i. p. 417, pi. 5, figs. 7, 8, ^ (1844). 



Ilerda tamu, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 28 (1857). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1886, p. 368. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 326 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 385. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, p. 674. 

 Ilerda oda, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 58, pi. 24, figs. 9, 10, <J (1865). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1865, p. 508, pi. 31, fig. 12, 9, and 1882, p. 249. Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 274, pi. 95, ^ 



(1888) (J. androcles on plate). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, S)- 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-blue, violet-blue in some lights, not metallic. 

 Forewing with a black costal line, and black outer marginal band, deepest on the costa 

 at the apex, its inner edge irregular, its width gradually narrowing hindwards. 

 Ilindwing with the costa broadly blackish, outer marginal band, corresponding to the 

 marginal band of the forewing, broadest at the apex, its inner edge more? or less 

 dentated, a large orange-red lunule at the anal angle, with an orange-red spot in 

 continuation. Underside of a sordid chrome-yellow colour, markings pale brown, very 

 obscure. Forewing with a spot in the cell, a line closing it, very faint indications of a 

 discal line, a white patch containing a black spot at the hinder angle, a row of obscure 

 brownish sub-terminal spots, the marginal space above the white patch pale scarlet-red. 

 Ilindwing with indications only of the cell markings and discal line ; a broad outer 

 marginal scarlet-red band, lined inwardly by white lunules, edged on both sides with 

 fine black lines, and outwardly by long black lunules on the margin. Cilia black, with 

 white edges. Antennae black, ringed with white ; head and body black above, white 

 beneath ; palpi black above, with white hairs beneath tipped with black ; frons with a 

 white line on each side. 



Female. Upperside brown. Fureicing with a rather irregular, orange-red, 

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