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line closing it and a cliscal line from costa to vein 2, similar to that on the forewing, a 

 marginal scarlet-red baud inwardly limited by a series of white lunules which are black- 

 edged on both sides, terminal line finely black, with white lunular marks which are 

 also inwardly finely edged with black. Cilia white, scarlet-red basally. Antennae 

 black, ringed with white ; palpi black, white beneath, with white hairs tipped with 

 black ; head and body black above, white beneath ; eyes ringed with white. 



Female. Upperside brown. Forewing with a rather narrow, dull orange-red, 

 outwardly oblique fascia in the upper disc. Hlndwing with a marginal band of rather 

 thin, orange-red lunules, from the anal angle to near the apex, decreasing in size 

 upwards. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? l| inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2d, $, 2e, ?). 



Both sexes are coloured and marked like the Wet-season brood, but are somewhat 

 brighter in colour, and very much smaller. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ j-^ to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Native Sikkim. 



The above descriptions and figures are taken from specimens in our collection from 

 Native Sikkim, they were named for us by de Niceville, and the males correspond with 

 Hewitson's type ; we are very doubtful as to there being any real difterence between 

 them and //. androcles of Doubleday and Hewitson from the Western Himalayas and 

 Assam of which we have many examples. Maorei is said to be metallic-blue and 

 androcles metallic-green, but it appears to us that both are metallic-blue and metallic- 

 green according to the reflected light in which they are seen, there being no pigment 

 colour, and in all other respects, though they vary somewhat, especially in the females, 

 they appear to us to be conspecific. 



HELIOPHORUS ANDROCLES. 



Plate 664, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ , 3c, 9 . 



Uerda androcles, Doubleday and Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. ii. pi. 7.5, fig. 2, ,J (1852). Horsfield 

 and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 29 (1857). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 328 (1890), 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 635. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 301. Watson, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 665. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 385. 



Tliecla androcles, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 487 (1852). 



JJerda coruscans, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 248. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 

 p. 130. 



Ilerda langii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 526. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing green (turning to a rich metallic-blue in 

 some lights) with the costa narrowly and increasingly, the apex very widely, and the 



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