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black. UNDERSIDE, forewing rich .chrome-yellow, unmarked, the inner margin broadly 
pale fuscous. A¢ndwing rich chrome-yellow; the anal area sprinkled with black and white 
scales; the anal lobe intensely black, with an intensely black small round spoton the 
margin in the first median interspace; the black and white anal area bounded anteriorly 
by an irregular iridescent greenish silvery line, above which is an irregular W-shaped white 
figure finely defined with black; a fine black anteciliary line from the anal angle to the 
discoidal nervule. Zaz?s black, tipped with white, the outer rather the shorter.” 
‘*A smaller species than the ‘JZyrzna’ orsolina of Hewitson,* from Celebes and 
Macassar ; differing in the shape of the blue patch on the upperside of the forewing, which 
in that species is deeply indented at the base of the first median nervule; also by the 
absence on the underside of both wings of the very pale broken linear brown band described, 
but not shown in the figure, as occurring in JZ. orso/ina, and in other details.” 
_ “have described 7. donatana from a single example taken by Major C. T. Bingham 
In the Donat Range, Upper Tenasserim, in April.” (de Nicéville, 1. ¢.) 
The figure shews both sides of the type male specimen from Burma in my collection. 
939. Tajuria megistia, Hewitson. 
Myrina megistia, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 5, n. 53, pl. Suppl. iii, figs. 77, 78, ale (1869). 
HasitTat: Unknown (ew?ztsoz) ; Khasi Hills. 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1°35 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ** MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark brown. Hindwing with two tails, 
the costal margin [broadly] cerulean blue, a black spot at the anal angle irrorated with white, 
the cé/ia and a submarginal line at the base of the tails white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
orange, crossed by a pale rufous band bordered outwardly with white. Azndwing with the 
anal angle grey irrorated with black, bordered above with white lunular spots and lines 
of white at right angles with them ; two large black spots at the base of the tail.” (Hewifson, 
1, c.) FEMALE unknown. 
Through the kindness of the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton, I have seen four males of 
this species taken in the Khasi Hills, three of which he has given me. They may at once 
be known from that sex of 7. yajua, Doherty, and 7. istroidea, mihi, in the smaller extent 
of the blue patch of the hindwing on the upperside, which only just reaches to within the 
upper outer angle of the cell, and nowhere touches the discoidal nervule. On the under- 
side the bright chrome-yellow colour of both wings, and the large size of the two anal 
deep black spots of the hindwing, distinguish 7. megistia at a glance from its allies, 
940. Tajuria yajna, Doherty, 
Remelana yajna, Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 128, n. 140 (1886); idem, id., I. c., vol. lviii, 
pt. 2, p. 134, pl. x, fig, 7, ale (1889). 
HasiraT : Garjiaghat and Baghrihat, on the Kali, 2,500—3,000 feet, Kumaon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°33 inches. 
DEsCRIPTION: MALE. ‘‘ Allied to the AZyina megistia of Hewitson. UPppErRSsIDE, both 
wines black. Hindwing with the upper part glittering azure from the first subcostal to the 
discoidal nervule, extending beyond into the cell (slightly), and almost to the costal nervure 
and the third median nervule, but not approaching the apex or the costa ; anal lobe gray, 
touched with fulvous and bluish ; a slender marginal bluish line on the lower part of the 
wing. Cilia black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown, darker at the apex of the forewing ; 
a broken submarginal darker line obscurely visible. A7zndzving crossed by a slender transverse 
line of fulvous, almost straight to the first median nervule, bordered outwardly with slender 
lines of black and white, continued by similar lines at right angles with it from the first 
median nervule to the abdominal margin. On the forewing the line is chiefly white (the 
* Jil, Diurn, Lep., p. 38, n, 39 pl. xvii, figs, 56, 58, sale ; 57, featale (186s), 
