380 LYCANIDZ. TAJURIA. 
Hampson has now obtained five specimens in all of this species in the Nilgiris from 2,000 to 
3,000 feet elevation, three males and two females. Its known range is peculiar, Sikkim, 
Khasi Hills, Rangoon, and the Nilgiris, localities very far apart from oneanother. It will pro- 
bably be found in intermediate localities. 
936. Tajuria mantra, Felder. 
Pseudolycena mantra, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 396, n. 9 (1860); Myrina mantra, Felder, 
Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 238, n. 270, pl. xxx, fig. 14, male (1865) ; Jolaus mantra (var. ?), Hewitsong 
Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 46, n. 20, pl. xx, fig. 24, female (1865) ; Tajuria mantra, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 245, 
n, 2, pl. xxi, fig. 11, fetale (1884); id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 44 (1886)- 
HasiTaT : Burma, Malacca, Nias Island, Celebes, Macassar ? 
EXPANSE: 6, I'15 to 140; 9, 1°35 to 1°75 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘MALE. UPPERSIDE, 40th wings dilute metallic-cyaneous. Forewing 
with the costal margin and the broad apical half fuscous. AHimdwing with the anal region 
somewhat produced, the costal and apical border fuscous, the hinder margin before the cilia 
black, the internal border hoary. UNDERSIDE, doth wings hoary-fuscous, with an external 
streak angulate towards the anal angle [of the hindwing] fuscous, circled with much paler, and 
another submarginal obsolete. Aindwing with a subanal spot and another anal both black, 
inwardly broadly surrounded with golden-yellow, outwardly bordered with metallic-greenish, 
sprinkled with metallic-greenish dots, a whitish line before the hinder margin. FEMALE. 
UPppERSIDE, doth wings pale violascent-cerulean blue. Fovewzng with the apical border a 
little narrower than in the male, AHindwing with the fuscous border paler, connected with 
the anal marginal smoky-fuscous spots powdery diffused, with a whitish antemarginal line 
evanescent towards the apex. UNDERSIDE, doth wings paler thanin the male. SHindwing, 
with spots somewhat fuscous within the whitish marginal line.” 
** Likewise related to the group of JZ [= Zajuria] longinus, Fabricius.” (Felder, 1. ¢. 
in Reise Novara). 
This is apparently a very rare species, the only specimens I have seen being a pair 
taken by Dr. J. Anderson in the Mergui Archipelago in the cold weather. The species is 
easily distinguished by the large patch of clear yellow at the anal angle of the hindwing 
on the underside. The tint of blue onthe upperside of the male is a little more violet than 
in 7. /onginus, Fabricius, and it is not quite so brilliant in shade. 
T. relata, Distant, is close to, but I think quite distinct from, 7: mantra, Feldere In 
the latter species the discal line is very slightly outwardly curved on the underside of the 
forewing, in 7, relata it is much outwardly bowed. I give its description below.* 
937- Tajuria Jjangala, Horsfield. 
Amblypodia jangala, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 113, n. 44, female (1829); id., Horsfield and 
Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus, E. I. C., vol. i, p. 46, n. 75, pl. ia, fig. 11, male (1857), Myrina jangala, Hewit- 
son, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 37, n. 37 (1865); Remelana jangala, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2» 
p. 37 (1884) ; Myrina ravata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 776, pl. xli, fig. 11, female; id., Hewit- 
son, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 5, n. 54 (1869); Sithon westermanni?, var., Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, 
Journ. A. S. B., vol. xlix, pt. 2, p. 233, n+ 46 (1880); ‘ S.’ westermannii, var., andamanica, id., ). c., vol. }, 
pt. 2, p. 249, n. 66 (1881). 
Hasirat: Sikkim, Assam, Burma, South Andaman Isles, Java. 
EXPANSE: @, 9, 1°4 to 1°7 inches. 
* Tajuria relata, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 246, n. 3, pl. xxi, fig. 12, female (1884); p. 460 (1886). 
Hastirat : Province Wellesley, Malacca. Expanse: Femade, 1°4 inches. Drscriprion: ‘‘ FEMALE. Allied 
to T. mantra, Felder, but differing in the following respects :—UnpersibE, both wings dark greyish, and not 
brownish-ochraceous as in Felder’s species, and the narrow fuscous submarginal fascia is rounded and out- 
wardly convex on the forewing.” 
“Although I only possess a single female specimen of this species, it is still, though closely allied to 
T. mantra, so very distinct in many important characters, as to necessitate its description as a new species.’* 
(Distant, \. c., p. 246). 
“ Mare. Uppgrsipe, doth wings cerulean-blue. Forewing with the costal margin greyish-brown, the apex 
broadly dark fuscous, this colour extending to near the outer angle. Hindwing with the costal margin greyish- 
brown, the outer margin very narrowly fuscous. UNDERSIDE, both wings as above” [? as in the female]. 
(Distant, 1. c., pe 460), 
