358 Col. C. Swinhoe on new 



only 1-ny inch in expanse of wings, whereas the expanse of 

 eryx is 1^% ; the upperside is duller in colour, the blue sheen 

 more restricted on the hind wings ; on the underside the 

 markings are similar, but the ground-colour is dull pale 

 ochreous yellow, instead of dark bright green, as in eryx. 

 The type specimen (a female), which is in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, came from Cachar. 



Tajuria valentia, sp. n. 



$ . Upperside blue, resembling Gamena cleobis, Godt., but 

 slightly paler : fore wing with the costal and apical black 

 band very similar, but extending to the hinder angle ; in 

 some examples the band is as broad here as in T. thyia, 

 de Nice., covering all the wing except the cell and space 

 below the first median veinlet ; in other examples there is 

 some blue in the outer interspace above : hind wing witli the 

 costal border black, fining downwards round the apex to a 

 fine line on the outer margin ; abdominal space nearly pure 

 white ; tails black, with white tips ; anal lobe small, with a 

 blackish outer patch and a fine white thread running up a 

 short distance on the outer margin ; cilia black, with white 

 tips; the veins black on both wings. Underside: both wings 

 French grey, exactly as in T. thyia, both wings crossed by a 

 broken, somewhat sinuous, reddish-brown line with pale 

 outer margin, much further away from the margin than in 

 thyia, extending on the fore wing from the subcostal to the 

 submedian nervure, recurved posteriorly on the hind wing to 

 the abdominal margin ; both wings with a pale indistinct 

 lunular line close to the margin, the lunules more distinct on 

 the hind wing ; an oval deep black spot near the outer margin 

 in the first median interspace surrounded by an ochreous 

 square space ; a small black spot on the anal lobe, margined 

 inwardly with blue scales, followed by a small ochreous 

 patch ; between these two patches are some greyish-blue 

 scales. 



Expanse of wings 1-^ inch. 



Cherra Punji. Many examples. 



Identified heretofore as T. mantra, Felder, from Celebes 

 and Borneo, the type of which is in coll. Rothschild ; differs 

 from that species in its smaller size, in the blue area of the 

 upperside being much darker and rather less extensive; the 

 ground-colour of the underside is paler and the linear band 

 differently placed, being much further in, colour different, 

 being reddish brown, whereas in mantra it is merely of a 

 darker shade of the ground-colour. T. mantra has also an 



