374 LYCENIDA. TAJURIA- 
DESCRIPTION : *f MALE. UPPERSIDE, - 40th wings rich deep metallic violet-blue, with 
the external margins broadly and decreasingly bordered with black, the anterior margin of 
the forewing less broadly black bordered. UNDERSIDE, doth wings with about the basal 
two-thirds ccerulescent or virescent opaque dead white, the rich red-brown of the outer mar- 
gins darker but similarly banded and marked with white as in the female, and the orange spots 
smaller, with a diffused patch of greyish-white scales between them, and the two or three in front 
of them all somewhat confounded with the white marginal line.” (MWood-Mason and de Nicéville, 
l.c.) ‘‘ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings dark brown. Hindwing with two tails, the anal 
lobe, which is crowned with rufous-orange, and the caudal spot, black. Cz/éa white. UNDER- 
SIDE, both wings with the basal half white, the outer margin broadly red-brown. Forewing 
crossed near the outer margin by a narrow band of white. Aznudwing with the lobe and 
caudal spot black, and a pale blue spot between them, all broadly bordered above with rufous- 
orange, two small submarginal pale blue spots, the margin, which is bordered above with white, 
black. Cz/ia white.” (Hew7tson, 1. c.) 
This species is another local race of 7. jalindra, Horsfield. From 7. iadra, Moore, 
it differs in the male on the upperside, in the anal lobe of the hindwing having a larger patch 
of orange in the middle, on the underside the basal two-thirds tinted with bluish or 
greenish instead of being dead white, the outer red-brown margin deeper in shade, better 
defined, and carried evenly to the abdominal margin of the hindwing, where in 7. indra 
it merges into the white ground-colour. In 7. ¢argina also the red-brown margin in the fore- 
wing bears a’ narrow white line, sometimes outwardly diffused, not continued on to the hind- 
wing ;in 7. indra the white line is always diffused, and is continued on to the hindwing, 
with an additional outer diffused white fascia not present in Z. ¢arfina. The very large size 
and rich colour of the orange spots at the anal angle of the hindwing is probably the most ; 
prominent feature of 7. ¢arfina. The two females I have seen as well as the type specimen 
have no white whatever on the upperside of the hindwing. 
T. tarpina appears to be confined to the South Andaman Isles, and is a rare species 
even there. Probably owing to its insular habitat, its markings appear to be more constant than 
those of 7. indra. 
928. Tajaria maculata, Hewitson. (PLaAre XXVIII, Fic. 219 3). 
Tolaus maculatus, Hewitson, If. Diurn. Lep., p. 47, n. 22, pl. xxi, figs. 29, 30, female (1865) ; Cophanta 
maculata, Moore, Journ A.S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 36 (1884). 
HABITAT : Sikkim, Assam. 
Expanse: $,1°6 to1'7; 9, 1°8 to 19 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, Goth wings black, Forewing with the lower discal 
area irrorated bluish-white. Azdwing dull blue, the costa broadly and outer margin narrowly 
black, abdominal margin white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pure dead white, a fine anteciliary 
black line. Forewing with the following large prominent round black spots :—one at the 
middle of the discoidal cell, one at its end, one near the middle of the first median inter- 
space, a conjoined pair on the costa divided by the subcostal nervure just before it gives off 
its third branch, one below these in the upper discoidal interspace nearer the margin, 
another in the same line in the second median interspace, a figure of 8 spot also in the same 
line in the submedian interspace, and a submarginal even series of six spots, of which the 
uppermost, third, and sixth are very much larger than the rest. Hindwing with a spot at 
the extreme base of the wing, a larger one at the base of the costal nervure, an oblique discal 
series of six spots, a submarginal series of nine spots, of which the two last but one 
are elongated, joined posteriorly and form a V-shaped figure, and the last is developed into 
a lengthened streak, and a marginal series of six spots increasing towards the anal angle. 
“ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing dark brown, with a large medial spot of. white from the 
base to beyond the middle, with its base anda spot at its middle lilac. AHindwing with 
the costal margin, a submarginal band of spots, a spot above these, and the outer margin, 
