Lepidoptera of Sikkim. 401 
sunny spots on the road, settling with open wings and 
flying very rapidly round and round. I have taken it as 
early as May 27th, and as late as December, but July 
and August are the height of the season. I have speci- 
mens of the female, marked Hewitsoni, Moore, from 
Hocking’s collection, though neither androcles nor 
Hewitsont are included in the list of this collection 
published by him, and I have it also from Kulu and 
Pangi, taken at 4000 ft. in March. I took this species 
among bushes on the edge of the forest in one or two 
places on the Khasia hills, at 5—6000 ft., in September. 
The females are very difficult to distinguish from those 
of tamu and Moorei, but I never found two species flying 
in the same localities in Sikkim. 
328. Ilerda brahma. 
Ilerda brahma, Moore, Cat. Lep. EH. I. C., i, t. i. a, 
figs 24,5 
This lovely insect is common at about 3—6000 ft. 
from June to December, but most abundant in July and 
August. I found it on forest-paths in sunny places, and 
it has the same habits as I. androcles. 
829. Ilerda Mooret. 
Ilerda Moorei, Hew., Ill. Di. Lep., p. 58, No. 5 
(1865). 
Ilerda saphir, Elwes, P. Z.8., 1882, p. 403, t. xxv., 
figs. 9, ¢ , 10, 2 (nec Blanch.). 
Though the impossibility of depicting the metallic 
shade of colour in these nearly-allied species makes the 
figure of this species referred to very like what I take to 
be tamu of Kollar. = coruscans, Moore, yet in the shade 
of its blue, which is purplish rather than greenish, it is 
very distinct. Since I first received it in 1881 from 
native collectors, I have had other specimens from the 
interior to the eastward, but never from British Sikkim. 
I have received a specimen of I. saphir from Paris, taken 
at Moupin, in Kast Tibet, which shows that I was wrong 
in my identification, as saphir seems to be much nearer 
to, if not identical with, Oda, Hew., from the N.W. 
Himalaya. 
