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pronounced, and succeeded by an obsolete brown lunule on the anal appendage. UNDER* 
SIDE, doth wings as in the male. The discoidal litura [on the underside of both wings] 
represented in the figures, does not appear in all our specimens.” (/ors/ield, 1. c.) 
“ FKMALE, UPPERSIDE, both wings grey-blue. Forewing nearly white towards the 
middle, the costal and outer margins and apex brown. Aindwing with the costal margins 
rufous-brown, crossed beyond the middle by a zigzag band of dark brown, a submarginal 
band of brown, two spots at the base of the tails and the apical [anal] spot black.” 
“T must confess myself quite unable to understand why /. [= 7.] pseudolonginus, Double- 
day, was separated from this species. It is true that the linear bands on the underside differ 
much in their intensity and are sometimes nearly absent in the males; but there is no other 
difference.” ( Hezitson, |. c.) 
«© LARVA considerably distended anteriorly, excavated at the sides, contracted behind, and 
transversely swelled at the segments. Feeds on a species of Loranthus [in Java], which 
grows parasitically in great abundance on the mango and other fruit trees surrounding the 
villages of the natives.” (Horsfield,1.c.) As figured in the two Catalogues of the Lepi- 
doptera of the East India Company from Dr. Horsfield’s drawings, the larva is a singular 
object ; the head is small but prominent, the segments rapidly increasing in breadth from 
the second to about the fifth, apparently bearing several blunt conical processes on these 
segments, coloured rich brown from about the sixth to the anal segment, which gradually de- 
crease in width, the dorsal region pale ochreous, the lateral region greyish, the sides of the 
middle segments excavated, forming a broad triangular figure, of a rich brown colour, anteriorly 
bounded by a white line. The pupa is abnormal, being considerably angulated on the 
abdominal segments, colouring pale brown streaked with darker brown. Mr. Moore (Lepe 
Cey.) describes the transformations as follows:—‘ Larva distended anteriorly, excavated on 
the sides, dorsally contracted behind, and throughout transversely swollen, head small ; 
purple-brown, with grey dorsal and lateral transverse fasciz. Feeds on Loranthacee. Pupa 
purple-brown, short, thick, head truncate, excavated behind the thorax, dorsal segments 
produced.” The figures given are extremely rough as compared with those of Horsfield. 
T. longinus is not only the commonest and widest-spread species in the genus, but 
also one of the most beautiful, the blue coloration of the upperside in the male being exquisite. 
In Calcutta I have found it abundant on the flowers of the Poizsedtia during the winter, Mr, 
Otto Moller possesses specimens taken in the Sikkim Terai in July and September, 
932. Tajuria jehana, Moore. 
T. jehana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 529, pl. xlix, fig. 7; id., Swinhoe, l. c., 1885, p. 1355 
n. 84; idem, id., l.c., 1886, p. 429, n. 65. 
Hasitat: Lucknow ; Poona, March and December ; Bombay, July and November ; 
Mhow, September. 
EXPANSE: &, 9, 1°25 to 1'50 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ Allied to 7. Jomginus, Fabricius, but of smaller expanse. MALE and 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings with the posterior areas slatey-blue. Hindwing with 
three black marginal spots from the anal lobe. UNDERSIDE, doth wings greyish creamy 
white. Forewing with a slender indistinct black submarginal line. AHindwing with the sub- 
marginal line more distinct and zigzag, a prominent anal and subanal black spot, each sure 
mounted inwardly by a yellow lunule, the intermediate space between the spots black-speckled. 
FeMALg. Uppersipe, hindwing with a submarginal brownish zigzag band.” (Jfoore, 1. c.) 
Otherwise as in the male. 
This is doubtless a prefectly good and distinct species, though it may be a little difficult 
to recognise, as both sexes in coloration resemble very closely the female of 7. /onginus, Fabri- 
cius. The male of 7. longinus is of course abundantly distinct from both sexes of 7. jehana. 
Some males in my possession show traces of the submarginal brownish zigzag band on the 
