106 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



outwardly oblique band in the upper disc. Ilindwlng with a marginal orange-red band 

 of lunules from the anal angle to vein 6. Underside as in the male, with the lines and 

 marks a little more distinct. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? 1^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, i, Id, $). 



Male. Upperside of a duller blue colour, the outer marginal band of both wings 

 very much broader than in the other form, the orange-red lunules near the anal angle 

 of the hind wing thinner and more extended, in some examples there are two and in 

 others three. Underside verv similar to the other form, but there are sometimes two 

 black spots in the white (more extended) patch at the hinder angle of forewing, one 

 above the other, the red marginal band is generally nearly obsolete, in many examples 

 no trace of it is visible, the hindwing is as in the other form. 



Female, similar to the Wet-season brood. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas, Kashmir. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, by Leslie 

 and Evans from Chitral ; we have it from Chitral and from Murree, and it is in the 

 B. M. also from Rala, Gurais Valley, Thundiani, and Dalhousie. 



HELIOPHORUS MOOREI. 



Plate 664, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J , 2c, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2d, ^ , 2e, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Merda moorei, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 58 (1865). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 327 

 (1890). 



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



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Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant blue-green. Forewing with a black narrow 

 costal band, a broad outer marginal band, with an even inner edge, broadest at the 

 apex and gradually narrowing hindwards. Hindwing with a broad costal and outer 

 marginal band, with its inner edging evenly rounded ; this band gradually broadens 

 from the base to the apex, and then gradually narrows hindwards, and at the anal 

 angle it contains two orange-red thick lunules, the abdominal area broadly blackish ; 

 tails black, tipped with white. Cilia blackish-brown at the base, white outwardly. 

 Underside dull chrome-yellow, with a slight greenish-grey tinge. Foreioiny, lines brown, 

 a thin line closing the cell, a discal line, nearly straight from the costa to vein 2, made 

 of slightly curving thin lines joined together, indications of a thin greyish sub-marginal 

 l)and, a white patch containing a l)lack streak at the hinder angle, terminal line faintly 

 orange-red. Cilia white. Hindwing with an indistinct blackish spot in the cell, a thin 



