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» **Nearto Tujuria dieus, Hewitson, from Sikkim, but the blue coloration of the upper- 
side is much lighter; the discal line on the underside of the forewing in 7. diaus is 
much straighter, its edges more even, and it increases in width to the costa, which it 
quite reaches ; the colour of all the lines being somewhat rufous also in that species. In 
the female of 7. deus, which sex I have not seen, there is a submarginal band of brown spots 
on the upperside of the hindwing. 7. albiplaga is also allied to Z. jehana, Moore, but 
the sexes of the former differ considerably, while in the latter they are described as being 
nearly alike. The three black marginal spots from the anal lobe on the upperside of the 
hindwing are also absent in 7. a/diplaga in both sexes.” (de Nécéville, 1, c.) 
Mr. Otto Méller possesses two males and three females of this species. The female 
may be kiiown from that of Camena deva, Moore, by the white patch on the upperside of 
the forewing, and also the lines closing the discoidal cells on the underside (a character 
which will distinguish it from Z. dieus also) being more prominent, and the discal line of the 
forewing straighter and more continuous. 
935. Tajuria melastigma, de N. 
T. melastigma, de Nicéville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 460, pl. xl, fig. 1, sale, 
Hapirat: Sikkim, Khasi Hills, northern slopes of the Nilgiris, Burma. 
EXPANSE: &, 1°5 to 1°83; @, 1°8 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘* MALE. UPPERSIDE, Jo¢h wings cerulean blue, of almost the exact shade 
of the common Camena cleobis of Godart. Forewéxg with the costal margin, the apical half of 
the wing, and the outer margin decreasingly to the anal angle black ; a large quadrate 
shining black ‘sexual mark’ on the disc, bounded on two sides by the disco-cellular nervules 
and the first median nervule. MHindwing with the outer margin very narrowly black, widen- 
ing at the apex; the abdominal margin whitish; the anal lobe and inner tail dull reddish, 
the outer tail black, both tails tipped with white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings dull pinkish. 
forewing with the inner margin somewhat broadly greyish; a discal straight narrow deep 
Indian-red line, outwardly defined with whitish, from near the costa to the submedian nervure ; 
an extremely obscure pale fascia near the margin. Aizdwing with the discal line in continuation 
of that on the forewing, the portion between the median nervules very irregular, from the first 
median nervule oblique to the abdominal margin ; the anal lobe marked with a rust-red spot, 
crowned obscurely with orange; a smaller very obscure spot on the first median interspace, 
between which the ground is obscurely sprinkled with white scales ; two indistinct series of 
dark spots between the veins above the second median nervule on the margin ; an anteciliary fine 
dark line. Cz/éa fuscous throughout. ody blue above, pale red below, whitish at the sides.” 
‘* T. melastigma has no secondary male sexual characters between the wings, and so far 
as I am aware, the peculiar shining black quadrate spot on the disc of the forewing on the 
upperside is unique amongst Indian Zycenide. Judging from Hewitson’s figure alone, it is 
closely allied to his /olazs zster, the type of which is from ‘ India,’ and is said to be a female ; 
Z. melastigma may be the hitherto unknown opposite sex of that species.” (de Wicéville, 1. c.) 
Mr. Otto Mdller possesses three males of this species taken in Sikkim, one of them in 
March. I have also received asingle forewing of a male from Mr. G. F. Hampson, who 
obtained it in the Nilgiri Hills, South India. 
Since the above was written, I have received two females from Mr. Hampson ; another 
is in the collection of the Phayre Museum, Rangoon ; and a male from the Khasi Hills is in the 
collection of Mr. Hamilton. The female may be described as follows :—FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 
both wings of a slightly duller shade of blue than in the male. vrvewzng with the blue colour 
more extensive, owing to the absence of the ‘‘ sexual mark.” /zndwing has the outer black 
margin somewhat broader, otherwise as in the male. As I have now obtained both sexes 
of 7. melastigma, the male of that species cannot be the hitherto unknown opposite sex of 
Camena ister, which latter I now believe to be a variety only of C. cleodds, Godart. Mr. 
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