378 LYCZNID. - TAJURIA, 
upperside of the hindwing, but their Sex may be determined by the narrowness and acuteness of 
the apex of the forewing. In addition to the localitiesgiven above, I possess specimens from Masuri 
(P. W. Mackinnon), Bholahat, Malda (W. H. /rvine), Barrackpore (Z. A. Minchin), Orissa 
(W. C. Tayior), Rutnagherry, and the Shevaroy Hills ; lastly Mr. Francis A. Fairlie has taken a 
pair at Jaffna, Ceylon, in July, the first specimens I believe that have been captured in that island. 
933. Tajuria dizus, Hewitson. 
Tolaus diaus, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn. Lép., p. 45,n.17,pl. xx, figs. 27, 23, male ; 26, female (1865). 
Hasitar: Northern India (Heztson) ; Masuri, Sikkim, Shillong, 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, 1'4 to 1°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings cerulean blue. Forewing with the 
fipical half dark brown [black]. Aindwing with the apex rufous [fuscous]. UNDERSIDE, both 
wings grey, crossed beyond the middle by a linear rufous band, and an indistinct very pale sub- 
marginal band of the same colour. Aindwing with the two black spots crowned with orange 
near the anal angle. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings like those of the male, except that they 
are of a paler hue. Forewing has its middle white, and a small black spot at the end of the cell. 
Hindwing has a submarginal band of brown spots.” Otherwise as in the male. (Zezwitson, |. c.) 
This is an extremely rare species, of which I have seen but seven specimens, a male fromi 
Masuri, 6,000 feet, taken by Mr. P. W. Mackinnon on 31st March, 1887, two males from 
Sikkim, one in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and one in my own, and a female 
from the same locality in Mr. Otto MoOller’s collection, taken on roth June, 1888, and two 
in my own collection also from Sikkim, lastly a female taken at Shillong in March 
by Dr. E. R. Johnson. The anal lobe to the hindwing on the upperside in both sexes is entirely 
rich red-ochreous, much as in A/aneca bhotea, Moore ; and in the male the shade of blue on 
the upperside is about intermediate between the dull blue of 7. jehana, Moore, and the 
brilliant blue of Z. dongénus, Fabricius, The-discal line on the underside of both wings 
is narrow, continuous, its edges even and well-defined, of a pale brown colour. 
934. Tajuria albiplaga, de N. 
T. albiplaga, de Nicéville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 459, Pl. xxxix, figs. 1, male; 2, female, 
Hapitat: Sikkim. 
EXpANSE: &#, 1°53; 2, 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, J0th wings cerulean blue with hardly any gloss 5 
cilia grey throughout. Forewing with the costa bounded posteriorly by the subcostal nervure, 
the apex broadly (including the anterior portion of the cell) and the outer margin decréasingly 
to the anal angle black. Azndwing with the costal margin and apex light fuscous, the two 
fine ¢ai/s black, tipped with white, a fine anteciliary blackline. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
grey, of the same shade asin 7. jehana, Moore; a prominent, narrow, straight, dark line 
on the disco-cellular nervules, Forewing with a similar discal line not reaching the costa 
anteriorly, touching the submedian nervure posteriorly ; beyond this line is a somewhat 
similar, but indistinct line. Aizdwzng with a discal line much as in the forewing, but reach- 
ing the costa and recurved to the abdominal margin, the upper portion straight as far as 
the third median nervule, below this the line is formed of outwardly convex lunules ; beyond 
the discal line is an obsolete submarginal line as in the forewing; a small deep black round 
spot in the first median interspace close to the margin, and another on the small anal lobe, 
both outwardly margined with pale yellow; no secondary sexual characters. FEMALE larger, 
both wings broader, the apex of the forewing less acute. Uppersipe, both wings of a slightly 
darker shade of blue than in the male ; ci/éa white throughout. Forewing with a large quadrate 
diffused white patch on the disc, its inner margin well-defined by the disco-cellular nervules, 
and that portion of the median nervure between the bases of the first and second median 
nervules) UNDERSIDE, doth wings marked exactly as in the male,’”’ 
