LYCANIDA. TAJURIA 375: 
dark brown; a submarginal line of white and some lilac spots. UNDERSIDE, Joth wings: 
white, with numerous black spots.” 
«7 have had difficulty in fixing the true position of this very unusually-marked species. 
It bears a general resemblance to the female of Aypolycena phorbas, (Fabricius, from the 
Malay Archipelago]. It has, however, the long palpi of /o/aus, as well as the third branch 
from the subcostal nervure of the forewing. Two examples only have, I believe, hitherto 
arrived in Europe.’ (Fevwi/tson, 1. c.) 
Rare in Sikkim, though Mr. Otto Moller obtained a beautiful series of it on one occasion. 
Mr. S. E. Peal has also taken two females at Sibsagar in Upper Assam, and the Rev. Walter 
A. Hamilton has obtained it in the Khasi Hills. The pattern of the markings of the underside 
is quite unique amongst Indian Zycenide. I possess a variety of the male from Sikkim which 
has all the blue and white coloration of the upperside much developed, the forewing has the 
costa and outer margin alone rather narrowly black, the hindwing on the costa bears a black 
streak, with all the black spots of the underside unusually small. 
' The figure shews both sides of the male variety from Sikkim in my collection mentioned 
above, 
929. Tajuria illurgis, Hewitson. 
Tolaus illurgis, Hewitson, Il. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 10, n. 26, pl. iv, figs. 37, 38, male (1869) ; Cophanta 
z@lurgis, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 36 (1884). 
HABITAT: Sikkim, Masuri. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1°653 2, 190 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, J0th wings dark brown. Forewing with a trifid 
blue and white spot in the middle. Hindwing with two tails ; grey-blue, except the costal 
margin, which is broadly brown, the outer margin and some submarginal spots dark brown, 
UNDERSIDE, doth wings white tinted with lilac, a large black spot at the end of the cell, 
both crossed beyond the middle by a band of linear black spots, both with two submarginal 
bands of spots. Aindwing with a black spot at the apex, the spot between the tails and 
the lobe black, crowned with orange.” (ewitson, 1. c.) FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing 
with the medial area of the wing white, the basal portion of this white area, the upper 
portion of the discoidal cell and the inner margin broadly sprinkled with blue scales, the anal 
angle narrowly white, the black costal area giving off a black projection or tooth at the 
disco-cellular nervules. Hindwing with the costa broadly black, anteriorly narrowly 
white, which colour occupies all the middle of the disc, the rest of the wing sprinkled with 
blue scales; an anteciliary fine black line continued on to the anal angle of the forewing, a small 
round black spot on the margin in the first median interspace; ¢ta7/s black, tipped and 
ciliated with white. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings as in the male. 
I have only seen three specimens of this rare species, a male taken in Sikkim on the 18th 
July, 1887, by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, and two females taken at Masuri, one in May, 1884, and 
one on 29th May, 1887, by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon. The female of this species and of the next 
is a really remarkable mimic in all except size of Cyaniris alhoceruleus, Moore, 
930. Tajuria illurgioides, n. sp. (PLATE XXVIII, Fic, 218 2). 
HasitTaT: Naini Tal, Sikkim. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°53; 92, 1°6 inches, 
DESCRIPTION : MALE and FEMALE, Only differs from 7. //urgis, Hewitson, on the 
UNDERSIDE of doth wings in the black spots defining the disco-cellular nervules being narrow, 
indistinct, and linear, instead of large, prominent, and somewhat reniform. Aindwing with an 
additional small round black spot near the costal base of the wing, placed below but touching 
the costal nervure. 
The type male was taken by Colonel A. M. Lang at Naini Tal, 6,500 feet, on 
15th July, 1887, and is deposited in his collection, I possess a female, taken at Kurseong, 
