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species : outer margin somewhat varying in outline ; in some species it is scalloped, in others 
oblique from the apex to the termination of the second subcostal ncrvule, thence to first 
median nervule straight, in others, again, it is evenly rounded throughout ; costal nervuro 
much arched at the base, terminating at the apes of the wing ; first subcostal nervule given 
off some little distance before the apex of the cell ; diseocelliilar nervules straight and some- 
what outwardly oblique, the upper a little shorter thau the lower ; second median nervule 
given off a little before the lower end of the cell ; submedian nervure straight ; internal 
nervure recurved. Male with no secondary sexual characters. 
" Type, /. epicles, Godart." (de NiceinUe, I. c.) 
Ilerda viridipunctata. (Plate XXX. fig. 3, ^ .) 
Herein tamu, Hewitson (ucc Kollar), 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 57 (1865) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lend. 1882, p. 248. 
Ilerda viridipunctata, A^c Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 329, pi. xxviii. fig. 207, cJ(1890). 
" Allied to I. androcles, Doubleday and Hewitson. Male. Upperside blackish brown ; with the 
medial, basal, and discal area of the fore wing and mecUal area of hind wing sparsely covered 
with dull metallic greenish-blue scales, these scarcely appearing below the submedian vein 
on the fore wing, and being less thickly disposed on the hind wing ; anal red lunules narrow 
and distinct. Female paler brown ; fore wing with an oblique discal slightly curved short 
red band ; hind wing with a marginal narrow sinuous red band. Underside dull saffron- 
yellow ; markings similar to those of /. androcles. 
" Expanse ly\ inch." {Moore, I. c.) 
Mr. de Niceville {l. c), who states that this insect had only been Diet witli 
in Sikkim and Kumaon, remarks : — " The only characters I can give to distin- 
guish the females of /. viridipunctata and /. brahama, Moore, are that the 
former is a larger insect, Avith the ground-colour of the underside darker and 
of a greenish tinge. In Sikkim, however, the two species do not usuallv 
occur together, 7. viridipunctata being found at much higher elevations than 
I. brahama ever attains. Mr. Otto MoUer possesses two curious aberrations 
or ' sports ' (or perhaps hybrids) of the male of this species, which are in some 
lights almost as rich a bronzy colour as obtains in /. brahama, only of a 
more greenish brassy shade. They were taken in Sikkim Avith /. viridipunc- 
tata, so I note them under that species, though they are exactly intermediate 
between the two." 
Chinese specimens of the male have less greenish powdering on the fore 
wing, and in one specimen this colour is reduced to a few scales bordering the 
nervures. The example figured is the best-marked specimen of this species 
that I have received ffom China. Females are identical with Indian examples 
of this sex. 
In Western China this species occurs not uncommonly at Ta-chien-lu, 
Wa-shan, Wa-ssu-kow, and Pu-tsu-fong. 
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