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the presence of four or five broad continuous red lunules to the hindwing on the upperside. As 
I have said above, this character is a most variable one and of no specific value whatever. 
I append a description of Z. dangit.* 
There is little to distinguish 2, androcles on the underside from its allies. Both wings 
are yellow, with a discal dark somewhat narrow lunular line, which in the forewing does not 
extend below the first median nervule, in the hindwing is brought round to the abdominal 
margin in a well-rounded curve, and is often absent altogether; the forewing has a 
disco-cellular line, a submarginal dark line, beyond which the wing is sometimes marked 
slightly with vermilion, the usual conspicuous oval black spot inwardly defined by a narrow 
white line at the anal angle, beyond which is a fine narrow black line defined by a narrow white 
line on both sides; in the hindwing are the usual small indistinct dark dots scattered over 
the disc and base, the usual broad marginal vermilion band variable in width inwardly 
defined by white lunules, which themselves are bounded on both sides by a black line, 
the vermilion band anteriorly irrorated with white, bearing outwardly towards the anal angle 
two or three black lunules. The female on the upperside is dull smoky-black, the forewing 
with a small orange discal lunule, which however varies a good deal in size, hindwing with an 
orange marginal band, which in my numerous specimens of this sex is not exactly the same in 
any two. Underside, both wings as in the male. 
Z. androcles has a very wide range, occurring in Kashmir, Pangi, Chumba, Middle 
Kunawar, and throughout the outer ranges of the Western Himalayas eastwards as far as 
Kumaon at any rate. It occurs again in Sylhet and Shillong, from which latter locality I 
possess many specimens captured by Dr. E. R. Johnson. In 1857 Mr. Moore appears to 
have correctly identified this species, as he describes it as “ Upperside of wings with glittering 
green patches,” and gives Sylhet as one locality for it correctly. He also cites Darjiling for 
it, but I have never seen a specimen from there which could be taken for 7. androcles, though 
the allied w2rédzpunctata, mihi, is common enough, and it is probably this species Mr. Moore 
took for 7. axdrocles. This is certain at least with regard to the specimen captured by Lieute- 
nant Hugo James, which is now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and is a true wérzdipunctata, 
mihi, it is referred to under 7. axdroclesin the 1857 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera in the 
Museum of the East India Company. 
888. Tlerda viridipunctata, n.sp. (PLATE XXVIII, Fic..207 $). 
I. tamu, Hewitson (ec Kollar), Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 57, n. 1 (1865); id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1865, P. 773; idem, id., I. c., 1882, p. 248; id., Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 130, n. 146 (1886), 
HABITAT: Kumaon, Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: g, 1°3 to 1°7; Q, 1°5 to 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ Allied to Z. androcles, Doubleday and Hewitson. MALE. UPPERSIDE, 
both wings blackish-brown, with the medial, basal, and discal areas of the forewzzg and the 
medial area of the Azndwing sparsely covered with dull metallic greenish-blue scales, these 
scales scarcely appearing below the submedian nervure on the forewing, and being less thickly 
disposed on the hindwing. Aixdwing with the anal red lunules narrow and distinct. UNDER- 
SIDE dull saffron-yellow, markings similar to those of JZ. androcles. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 
both wings paler brown than in the male. Fovewéxg with an oblique discal slightly-curved 
short red band. Aindwing with a marginal narrow sinuous red band.” UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings asinthe male. (Jfoore, 1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882.) 
Mr. Doherty describes the male of this species as follows :—‘‘ It is merely powdered with 
shining greenish-blue on the upperside, which does not extend on the forewing beyond the 
Pea a Se eae 
* Tlerda langii, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 526. Hasirat: Masuri, N.-W. Himalayas. 
Expanse : Male, 125 inches. DeEscripTion : MALE, “ Near to Z, soorei, Hewitson. Uppersipe, doth wings 
with the metallic area of the same extent and shape as in that species, the metallic colour being of a greenish 
tint of nearly the same intenseness as that of /. andvocles, Doubleday and Hewitson. AHzxdwing, marginal 
red band composed of four or five broad continuous lunules, in both the former named species the marginal 
band is composed of only two lunules, Unpsrsipg, doth wings of a much darker yellow than in the former 
species.” (Moore, |. c.) 
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