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wing with two extremely thin, long tails, which flutter in the slightest draught and break off very easih^. 

 The larvae woodlouse-shape, as far as known living on Orchideae. 



C. othona Hew. (72 c). The upperside is of a beautiful metallic sky-blue, with the apex black, othona. 

 Underside dull white, with very characteristic pale yellowish brown markings edged with black. The hind- 

 wing bears a black dot near the base below the costa. There occur also specimens with pale discal spots 

 on the forewing above. — Throughout the Himalayas, from the west eastward to Sikkim and southward 

 over a large portion of India as far as the Andamans. From March till October, the cfcf abundant, the ?? 

 very rare according the de Nicevillk. The onisciform larva is green and has the general facies of the 

 caterpillars of Lycaenids, found on Orchideae which grew on a balcony of a house. 



6. Genus: Cameua Hew. 



Head large, the frons rounded, convex; antennae half the length of the costa; palpi large, clothed 

 with silvery white hairs. Thorax very strong; abdomen of the cT slender. Upperside of the Palaearctic 

 species metallic dark blue, very strongly glossy ; underside white- or silver-grey with thin markings. The anal 

 angle of the hindwing is pointed, not being produced into such a prominent circular lobe as in Bapala, 

 Deudorix, etc. ; two thin tails. The forewing of the cT bears beneath in the centre of the hindmargin a tuft 

 of hairs, which corresponds to a silky patch situated in the middle of the costal margin on the upperside 

 of the hindwing. The genus is widely distributed in India, but all the species appear to be rare, only the 

 cfcf of Hesia are recorded by Marshall and de Niceville as being "very common in Sikkim". 



C. Ctesia Hew. (72c). Upperside of a magnificent bright blue, with black margin; the disc of the ctesia. 

 forewing always bears in the cf a black patch, which is united with the black margin in several places and 

 sometimes also appears in the ?. Underside with silvery gloss, light grey; about midway between cell and 

 distal margin there is on both wings a row of dark dots with thin pale edges; a similar spot near the base 

 of the hindwing. — West China (Ghia-kou-how), also in the Indian Himalaya. Indian specimens have the 

 upperside yet more glossy and the underside lighter whitish grey than Palaearctic ones, the black discal 

 spot of the forewing above being smaller (Leech). 



C. icetas Heu'. (= contractus Leech) (72 c). Above similar to Tajuria longinus, deep dark blue, with ketas. 

 the apical area of the forewing black. This black area reaches farther proximad and extends along the 

 hindmargin towards the base; the blue colour is also darker and has a far less strong metallic gloss than in 

 T. longinus. The underside is pale dust-grey, with a submarginal row of brownish shadowy spots, on the 

 proximal side of which there is a black line ending in the anal area in a V; the anal area with dark spots 

 surrounded with reddish yellow. The ? is more extended black above, the blue scaling being sparser and 

 paler. — Distributed throughout the Himalayas, occurring on Palearctic territory in Kashmir as well as in 

 West China, extending along the Yang-tse-kiang as far east as Chang-Yang. 



7. Genus: Tajuria Moore. 



This genus, which taken in its wider sense contains numerous, almost exclusively Indian species, is 

 very close to Cameua, but differs in the cTcf having no scent-organ. Moreover, the hindwing is narrower 

 and more elongate posteriorly than in Camena. The caterpillars, as far as they are known, have a very 

 peculiar shape and, when on a leaf, resemble bird-droppings or a pod fastened to the leaf. The pupa is very 

 strongly hump-backed, being deeply concave behind the thorax with the anterior segments of the abdomen 

 strongly raised again. According to Moojie the pupa fastened at the foodplant as in Nymphalids, without a girth. 



T. longinus F. (? = pseudolonginus Dbl) (72 c). Costal margin and apical half of the forewing longinus. 

 above black, as is also the apical area of the hindwing. In the cf the rest of the upperside of a wonderful 

 glossy cyaneous. Underside light dust-grey, the forewing sometimes without markings, the hindwing with 

 a chain of obliquelj' placed submarginal comma-spots. Anal area with 2 black spots surrounded with 

 yellowish red, with bluish green in between. The ? above rather light blue, almost whitish; the oblique 

 submarginal spots of the underside are much stronger and larger and are present on both wings, those of 

 the hindwing being also visible above. — Kashmir, and throughout India and Ceylon as well as the Malay 

 Archipelago. The head of the larva flat and porrect, the thoracial segment strongly swollen, with a saddle- 

 like depression behind the thorax, the 8. and 9. segments again enlarged and the following segments 

 gradually tapering to a point; dark brown, with dull white dorsal patches; on Loranthaceae. Pujia thick, 

 short, uniformly dark brown, the back with saddle-like depression, the first abdominal segments being dor- 

 sally strongly elevate. The butterfly is one of the very commonest of the whole tribe ; it flies in the northern 



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