376 LYCANIDA. “ TAJURIA. 
near Darjiling, by Mrs, Wylly, and there is another female in Mr. Otto Méller’s collection, 
taken on Senchal, near Darjiling, at about 8,000 feet elevation, in August, 1883. These 
two females differ considerably in the extent of the blue and white areas on the upperside 
of both wings, but agree exactly in the markings of the underside. 
The distinctive characters given above for this species may appear trivial, but as they 
exist in all the specimens of it Ihave seen, and are absent in 7. z//urgis, while the markings 
of both species show no variation whatever in my series of specimens of both species, I 
trust they will prove to be distinctive when larger numbers shall be available for comparison. 
The figure shews both sides of the female type specimen from Kurseong in my 
collection. 
931. Tajuria longinus, Fabricius. 
Hesperia longinus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl., vol. v, p. 430, n. 77-78 (1798); Polyommatus longinus, 
Godart, Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 634, n. 63 (1823); id., Lucas, Lép. Ex., pl. xliv, fig. 3, #ale (1835); Amblypodia 
longinus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 110, n. 42; Thecla longinus,id.,1.c¢., pl. i, fig. 7, zmago ; pl. iv, fig. 5, 
larva; 5a, pupa; figs. 56-e, structure of imago (1829) ; id., Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep, Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, 
p. 45, 0. 70 (1857); Bithys longinus, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett., figs. 933,934 (1837); Jolaus longinus, 
Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 35; id., Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 45, n. 18 (1869); id., Butler, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 549, m. 1 (1877); id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., 
pi 275, pl. xcv, male (1888); Jolaus cippus, race longinus, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 186, n- 2 (1869); 
Tajuria longinus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 109, pl. xlii, figs. 2, male; 2a, female; 2b, larve and pupa™ 
(1881); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 244, n. i, pl. xxiii, fig. 20, female (1884); Amblypodia pseudolonginus, 
Doubleday, List Lep. B. M., vol. ii, p. 23 (1847); id., Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus, E. I. C., vol. i, 
p. 45). 71, pl. i, figs. 6, darva; 6a, pupa (1857); Jolaus pseudo-longinus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
1867, pp. 35, 36, woodcut n. 3, female. 
Hapitat : Throughout India (except the desert tracts), the outer Himalayas, Ceylon, 
Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 
ExpANsE: 6, 12 to 1°8; 2, 1°5 to 1'8 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings cyaneous blue, witha saturated silvery 
reflexion changing according to the light to sea-green, the borders throughout and the ex- 
terior dimidial portion of the forewing, defined by a boundary extending obliquely across 
the disc, being black, the inner excavated margin of the hindwing gray. Cilia throughout 
gray. UNDERSIDE, oth wings satin-gray with a common striga of minute black ares, beyond 
the middle, regular and disposed in close contact in the forewing, flexuous and farther re- 
moved from the margin in the Aizdwzng, interrupted by a more conspicuous arc or angular 
mark in the curve at the anal region, opposed to the medial space between the tails. Forewing 
has besides between the principal striga and the margin a regular series of very obsolete 
oblong grayish spots faintly margined with white; this is continued in the hindwing by a 
double series of the same kind with more distinct spots, and followed in the anal region by 
two intensely black ocellate spots, the exterior one near the marginal notch being small, 
regularly circular, and bedded in a large fulvous patch with an abruptly transverse interior 
edge, the other ocellus occupying the anal appendage, being oblong-transverse, bordered 
internally by a fulvous lunule and ornamented externally by a narrow metallic streak ; 
between these is a round group of delicate silvery irrorations on a hoary ground. The ¢ad/s 
are black with white edges and tips; the awéenne abruptly terminated by a short point, 
brown with a ferruginous tip, and marked on one side with delicate transverse grayish dots ; the 
body is covered with a bluish sea-green down above, and with delicate white hairs underneath. 
FEMALE. UrrkrstbR, doth wings sordid white, with pale azure silvery irrorations confined to 
the base. Forewing with broad brown borders. AHindwing faintly clouded with brown and 
paler anterior margin, bearing two rows of minute black spots parallel with the posterior mar- 
gin, and an extreme black thread ; the two interior spots of the exterior series being larger, more 
* This figure shews the pupa as freeiy suspended by the posterior segments as in the family Vymfhalide, 
which is an unusual position to be assun.ed by pupa of this family, as nearly all lycenid pupa are girt in the 
middle by a silken thread, in addition to being attached to their support by the anal segments of the abdomen. 
