LYCANIDA, TAJURIA. 38t 
DESCRIPTION: ‘f MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wenes brownish-black, with the discoidal cell 
and posterior base of the /orewing and the middle of the Aimdwing shining indigo-blue.” 
(Afoore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 
‘*FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings uniformly dark brown, with a very faint varying 
purple reflexion. Aindwing with the inner margin silky-gray ; anal appendage bearing a 
saturated ferruginous lunule and confined exteriorly by a white arc, behind which is a 
delicate black line gradually evanescent towards the marginal notch. Cilia gray through- 
out, UNDERSIDE, doth wings ferruginous-brown with a glaucous gloss changing to purple 
according to the direction of the light; disc marked with a short double brownish litura ; 
between this and the posterior margin follows a delicate but distinct brown striga with a 
purple gloss, consisting of minute linear fragments which in the forewing are regular 
and contiguous, forming a slightly curved striga commencing at a small distance 
from the costa and terminating at the anal area. orewing with the anal area ferruginous-gray. 
Hindwing with the discal striga passing over the whole surface, being broken at the 
costa, slightly waving in the middle region, and then passing, after several interruptions, 
to the inner margin, being marked in the anal region exteriorly with several whitish 
angular clouds ; the whole of the anal portion of the wing is covered with a saturated 
ferruginous band continued obliquely to the anterior apical angle, regularly defined interiorly, 
and bearing exteriorly at the margin two very large circular spots, ferruginous-brown, 
varying to purple, and separated by a group of white atoms: the inner edge is ornamented 
with four delicate emerald-green marks with a golden lustre, the first near the middle of 
the margin being short and linear, the second forming a semicircular arc above the exterior 
ocellus, the third opposed to the intermediate group of atoms being angular or resembling 
the letter V, the fourth forming a minute lunule over the interior ocellus, from which it is 
continued one-third of the length of the inner margin ; exteriorly the anal region is bordered 
by a delicate grayish thread, beyond which a brownish cz/ia extends along the wings. Body 
brown above, pale ferruginous-gray underneath. Axtenne brown with numerous white 
bands on one side. 7Zaz/ black tipt with white.” (Horsfeld, 1. c.) 
Variety from Northern India. ‘‘ FEMALE. UNDERSIDE, both wings rufous. Hindwing 
with the spots near the anal angle also rufous but darker.” (Hew7tson, 1. c. p. 37) 
A common species at low elevations in Sikkim, and occurs in July, October, and Novem. 
ber. The sexes hardly differ, but the female has the wings rather broader, the ground-colour 
on both sides rather paler, and the purple coloration of the upperside more inclined 
to blue thanin the male. In exceedingly fresh specimens of the male, on the upperside of the 
forewing, may be observed a ‘ sexual-mark’ exactly similar to that described above in 7. medas- 
tigma, mihi, but not nearly as prominent. 7. jangala is subject to considerable variation on the 
underside as shown by Sikkim specimens. The ground-colour is usually very dark ferruginous, 
and the anal spot and the spot in the first median interspace in the hindwing are jet-black. In 
some specimens the ground-colour is dark ochreous, the spots mixed with reddish. Another 
form, of which I possess a typical specimen, has the ground-colour clear chrome-yellow, the 
spots jet-black. This has been described as a distinct species as below* under the name 
* Tajuria ravata, Moore. Myrina ravata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 776, pl. xli, fig. 11, 
female ; id., Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 5, n. 54 (1859). Hasrrar: Bengal. ExpansE: Female, 
x’5 inches. Description: ‘* FEMALE. UprersibE, doth wings purple-brown, discoidal cell and space below 
purple-blue. AHindwing with two tails, bordered and tipped with white. UNpersIDE, 40th wings chrome. 
yellow. Forewing with a transverse discal pale brown narrow line. Hindwing with discal pale brown line 
terminated with continuous white spots, a large black spot above each tail, interspaced with brown, bordered 
above by a broken line of metallic green, and below by a white line. Cz/éa from anal angle to beyond the 
tails black, edged with white.” (core, 1. c.) ee z Z 
“Near to Myrina (= Tajuria] megistia, Hewitson [from the Khasi Hills], but scarcely likely to be its 
female, since it is decorated above the anal black spots [on the underside of the hindwing] with ‘metallic 
green.” (Hewitson, |. c.) ves 
This species seems not to have been recognised by any one since its description nearly twenty-five years ago. 
It is strange that Mr. Moore failed to see its close relationship to 7. yangala, Horsfield, its sole point of 
difference being the colour of the ground on the underside. Neither did he place it in his genus Reme/ana when 
describing the latter. It isa rare form of 7. janga/a, andI have only seen one specimen which absolutely 
