326 LYCAENID/:. ILERDA. 
Its most westerly range appears to be Eastern Kumaon, where Mr. Doherty took it 
in the Kali Valley, 2—4,000 feet, at Askot, 5,000 feet, and the Dhoaj Mountain. 6,000 feet ; 
it is extremely common in Sikkim and Assamat low elevations, and Dr. Horsfield notes that 
it “ is not unfrequent in the acclivities near the confines of the extensive medial plain of 
Java.’ It has also been recorded from the Island of Hainan. 
885. Tlerda tamu, Kollar. 
Polyommatus tamu, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 417, n. 3, pl. v, figs, 7, 8, male 
(1844); Zlerda tamu, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 28, mn. 31 (1857); id., 
Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 368, n. 53; //erda oda, Hewitson, II]. Diurn. Lep., p. 58, n. 3, pl. xxiv, 
figs. 9, 10, male (1855); id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 508, n. 115, pl. xxxi, fig. 12, female}; 
idem, id., 1. c., 1882, p. 249; id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 274, pl. xcv, male (1888), (7. androc/es on plate). 
Hasitat: Western Himalayas from Kashmir to Kumaon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'20 to 1°55; @, 1°20 to 1°45 inches. 
Kollar’s original description of tamu. 
MALE. ‘‘ UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark brown, glittering with blue at the base. AHind- 
wing with a short tail, with two orange-red lunules at the anal angle. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings greenish-yellow, a median blackish streak. Aindwing with a marginal orange-red 
fascia.” (Xollar, 1. c.) 
Hewitson’s description of oda. 
‘“* MALE. UPPERSIDE, J0¢h wings lilac-blue without metallic lustre, broadly bordered with 
dark brown. Hindwing with two lunular black spots crowned with orange at the anal angle. 
UNDERSIDE, oth wings ochreous-yellow. Forewing with a spot at the end of the cell, anda 
transverse band beyond the middle, brown ; a submarginal band of pale brown, a black spot 
bordered with white at the anal angle. Aindwing with the outer margin broadly scarlet 
irrorated with white and bordered above and below by lunular spots of black and white. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings dark brown. forewing with a broad band of orange xear 
the apex. Hindwing with a broad submarginal band of orange. UNDERSIDE, both wings 
like the male.” 
“This species seems to be distinct from Z. ¢amu, Kollar, and /. brahma, Moore, and, 
besides its different colour, has the orange band at the outer margin on the underside of the 
hindwing much broader, as in Z, epicles, Godart.” (Hewitson, 1. c.) 
Moore's description of oda. 
“* MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings black, basal portion clear blue. Hindwing with or 
without an indistinct reddish streak at the anal angle. UNDERSIDE, oth wings greenish saffron- 
yellow. Forewing with three decreasing black, white-bordered spots, ascending from posterior 
angle. Hindwing with a broad ochrey-red marginal band, bordered on both sides with white, 
black-bordered lunules. Ci/ia black, slightly margined with white. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth 
wings blackish-brown. Forewing with a short, subapical, medially oblique, broad red band, a 
distinct black spot closing the discoidal cell. Haedwing with a broad, marginal, sinuous red 
band. Cilia brown. UNDERSIDE, o/h wings dull greenish-yellow. Forewing with the medial 
portion reddish-yellow, a short narrow blackish line subapically from the costa, and a second 
elongated spot closing the discoidal cell; a black spot with white inner border at the posterior 
angle. Hindwing with a broad marginal red band, bordered inwardly with a linear series of 
white and externally with black lunules, an indistinct transverse discal dark line.” (d4oore, 1. c. 
in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865.) 
‘‘ Frequents rich deep forests north of Simla, occurring with 7. ¢ama«* in sunny glades 
carpeted with strawberry-blossoms, in May.” (Vote by Colonel A. M. Lang, R. E.) 
Butlers description of tamu. 
* Common, according to Major Yerbury, but certainly not so in European collections ; it 
has been named JZ. coruscans for him, but is not even nearly allied to that species, of which 
* Colonel Lang informs me that the species referred to is 7. androcies, Doubleday and Hewitson, and. 
was so named in kis original MS. note. 
