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It flies well and strongly and never straight, but eratically, dodging 

 about and settling frequently amongst the leaves of trees ; it is hardly 

 ever found at the tops of trees with the males of Camena deva and 

 Camena cippus, probably because it does not ordinarily bask in the 

 sun. The female is generally found near the food-plant and is not 

 seen as often as the male. Neither of them is, however, rare and can 

 always be had wherever Lorantlms longiflorus, which is the common 

 food of the larva is to be found ; and that means over the whole of 

 India except in the absolute deserts. The eggs are laid singly on the 

 young shoots or flowers. The young larva lives on the flower-buds 

 or young leaves and the full-grown larva generally anywhere on the 

 plant, on the under or upper surface, of leaves or on the stalks, bran- 

 ches, &c. It is hardly ever attended by ants though some occasionally 

 visit it. The pupa is found attached to the upper surface of a leaf, 

 or to a stalk or branch and generally with the head pointing down ; 

 it is fastened only by the tail and lies quite free with the head.however, 

 generally touching the surface to which it is fixed. The insect is 

 found throughout India except in desert tracts, in the outer Himala- 

 yas ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Malay Peninsula ; Java. 



The male and female are pictured on Plate H, figures 53 and 53a. 

 The pictures are good except that the undersides are too pink as is 

 also the upperside of the female wings on the paler parts. 



175. Tajuria jehana, Moore. Male. — Allied to Tajuria cippus, Aur., but 

 of smaller expanse. Male and female. Upperdde : both wings with the 

 posterior areas slatey-blue. Hind wing : with three black, marginal spots from 

 the anal lobe. Underside : both wings greyish creamy-white. Fore wing : 

 with an indistinct, black, submarginal line. Hind wing : with the submarginal 

 line more distinct and zigzag, a jDrominent anal and subanal, black spot, each 

 surmounted inwardly by a yellow lunula, the intermediate space between the 

 spots black-speckled. Female. Upperside : Hind wing : with a zigzag, sub- 

 marginal band. (Moore). 



The above is quoted from de Niceville's book. He remarks : " This is doubtless 

 a perfectly good and distinct species, though it may be a little difficult to 

 recognise, as both the sexes in colouration resemble very closely the female of 

 T. cippus, Aur. The male T. cippus is of course abundantly distinct from both 

 sexes of jehana. Some males in my possession show traces of the submarginal, 

 brownish, zigzag band on the upperside of the hind wing, but their sex may be 

 determined by the narrowness and acuteness of the apex of the fore wing." 



The description above given fits a male and female caught in Kanara except 

 that the male is as bright, metallic blue on the upperside as any specimen of 

 Tajuria cippus. It is much smaller however as is the female than the corres- 

 jjonding species of cippus. This female altogether wants the submarginal, 

 brown line of lunules on the upperside of the hind Aving although the male has 

 them. In the male this line, on the underside, is black instead of broAvn as it is 

 in both sexes of cippus. The dots representing it on the upperside of the male 

 are also black. The vmderside of both sexes are creamy-white with a sugges- 

 tion of pinkish, whereas, in cippus it is much purer light grey. The two anal 

 spots are present and prominent in both sexes ; the lobe is exactly as in cippus. 

 Apparently the portion of the submarginal line on the underside between veins 2 

 and 3 (in interspace 2) is always lunulate outwards in this latter species whereas 



