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926. Tajuria indra, Moore. | 
Stthon indra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 5273 Polyoumatus nedymond, Godart (nec Cramer), 
Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 634, n. 64 (1823). 
HaBiTaT: Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Orissa, Nilgiris, Canara, Travancore, 
EXPANSE: @, 2, 1°37 to 1°80 inches. 
DescriPTion: ‘‘ Allied to S. [=7.] zalindra, Horsfield. MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings 
differ from typical Javan specimens in having comparatively broader brown exterior 
borders, UNDERSIDE, 40th wings whiter, with narrower upper discal brown band. AHindwing 
with the subanal spot with much less red border. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, Azndwing with four 
small obsolescent widely-separated blue-grey lower submarginal spots above the blackish mar- 
ginal spots, the anal black spot being surmounted with red, in the Java type of female the 
hindwing has a broad blue-grey lower marginal band and blue-grey speckled anal spot.” 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings as in the male. (Afvore, |, c.) 
I admit 7. iwdra as a species distinct from 7. jalindyva with some reluctance, as I 
find that the characters Mr. Moore relies on to separate them are very slight and variable 
also, especially the extent of the white area on the upperside of the hindwing in the female, 
which is absent entirely from some specimens, the spots very large in an example I possess 
from Shillong. 7. izdra has been sent me in considerable numbers by Mr. W. H. Irvine 
from Bholahat, Malda ; it is somewhat rare in Sikkim, occurring from September to November, 
it is distinctly rare in Calcutta, but affects the flowers of the Poinsettia; it occurs in Sylhet 
and at Shillong, Mr. W, C. Taylor has often taken it in Orissa, and Mr. G. F. Hampson 
records it as very rare from the lower slopes of the Nilgiris from 2,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. 
It is a little remarkable that it should be absent in Ceylon, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula, 
while reappearing again in a slightly changed form in Nias, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java as 
TZ. jalindra, a description of which is appended.* 
927. Tajuria tarpina, Hewitson. 
Myrina tarpina, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Lycenid@, Suppl., p. 23, n- 65, pl. Suppl. iiia, figs. 93, 94, female 
(4878) ; Sithon tarfina, Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix, pt. 25 p. 233, n. 47 (1880). 
HasiraT : South Andaman Isles. 
EXPANSE: @, 1°60 to 1°78; 9, 1°4§ to 1'90 inches. 
* Tajuria jalindra, Horsfield. Amblypodia jalindra, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 109, n. 41 (1829); 
Myrina jalindra, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 50,n 85 (1857) ; id., Hewitson, Ill. 
Diurn. Lep., pp. 28, 40, n. 3 (1863) ; Suppl. p. 24, n. 67, pl. iiia, Suppl., figs. 96, male ; 97, 98, female (1878) ; 
Sithon thymbreus, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett.. figs 671, 672, made (1832). HaBIvTatT : Java (Hors%eld), Suma- 
tra (Hewitson}, Nias Island (Khezl), Borneo (Druce). Exeanse : Male, 18 (Hewitson’s figure); /emale, 1°58 
(Horsfield), 1°8 ( Hewitson’s figures). DESCRIPTION’ ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, loth wings varying violet-blue, exterior 
margin of forewing, and anterior, exterior, and abdominal margin of Azzdwzng brown, anal angle whitish. Un- 
DERSIDE, 40th wings asin female.” (Moore, |. c.) ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wzngs brilliant morpho-blue, the mar- 
gins black. Horewzng with the costal margin very narrow. Hindwing with two tails, the lobe and two caudal 
spots, which are bordered below with white, black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings white, the outer margins broadly 
brown, suffused with grey, and crossed by a band of white. A/ézdwéng with three black spots (one V-like) above 
the anal angle, the lobe (which is crowned with silvery blue) and the caudal spot (which is crowned with orange) 
black, and a black spot between them, irrorated with silver, the outer margin black, bordered inwardly with white, 
Cilia white.” (Hewitson, |. c., p. 24). ‘* FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 60th wings pure brown. Forewing immaculate, 
Hindwing with a broad oblong posterior band of a pale azure tint, varying according to the aspect to pale sea- 
green ae a silvery reflexion, bearing at the exterior edge three oblong black marks, of which the interior one 
has the deepest tint, the whole being bordered externally by a white marginal line, separated from the cz/za of 
the same colour by an intermediate black thread which is flexuose in the anal region ; the aad lode bears a 
lunule covered with silvery sea-green resplendent dots. UNDERSIDE, doth wings with the basal dimidial portion of 
the surface satin-white, the apical portion brown with a slight violet shade ; the latter is further subdivided, 
in the forewing, by an intermediate abbreviated undulated white striga, the posterior half being paler, and the 
whole of the inner apical [anal] angle gray ; in the Aixdwing the marginal portion Is white and marked with four 
obsolete gray spots, fainter as they recede from the outer apical angle ; the anal region is white, and bears 
two very large, strongly pronounced, intensely black circular ocellate spots, with an intermediate round 
group of greenish silvery irrorations; the exterior ocellus bears internally a broad orange lunule spreading 
im a radiant manner towards the disc; the second ocellus occupies the anal appendage itself, and is entirely 
surrounded by a narrow annular iris of a pale green silvery tint ; parallel with the ocelli three delicate black 
marks are arranged in a series, the intermediate one forming an angular maik resembling the letter V, the 
lateral ones constituting two short oblique striole; a very faint oblique bifid streak stretches from the inner 
ocellus towards the anal angle. Body brown above and white underneath. Antenne brown with a ferruginous 
tip, and marked underneath with delicate bands alternately white and brown. Tails white, very delicately 
fringed at the sides, and marked longitudinally with a distinct black medial line. ” (Horsfield, |. c.) 
