106 Col. C. Swinhoe on 



hundreds and have now 72 codes from India and Perak, 

 39 natta from India, and many Earli from Perak before me : 

 some of the specimens of natta are paler than others, but I do 

 not remember to have ever seen what might be called a real 

 intergrade between this form and codes ; I have, however, 

 never seen a female of natta, though females of codes are not 

 uncommon. 



Fam. Lycaenidse. 

 8. Tajuria teza, nov. 



? . Upperside : fore wing blue, like the colour of Cliaria 

 othona, Hew., but brighter and paler in the outer portions ; 

 the costal and outer margins broadly black, filling one third 

 of the cell j the black band very broad beyond the cell, 

 narrowing gradually towards the hinder angle, where it curves 

 a little on the hinder margin ; the blue portions irrorated with 

 black atoms, thickly so on the inner half of the wing : hind 

 wing darker blue ; a blackish-brown costal border, inwardly 

 diffuse, and the whole surface of the wing thickly irrorated with 

 black atoms, suffusing the entire wing ; marginal line black, 

 inwardly edged with white; tails black with white tips; a 

 blackish spot on the anal lobe, and a black spot at the end of 

 the three next veins on the brown cilia. Underside bright 

 chrome-yellow, with a discal narrow darker line outwardly 

 edged with whi e : fore wing closed by a similar line ; the 

 discal line is somewhat irregular, like connected lunules, 

 there is also an indistinct submarginal line not white-edged : 

 hind wing with a similar discal band, nearly straight to the 

 second medial nervure, then zigzag to the abdominal margin ; 

 a similar submarginal line with an outward white edging ; 

 marginal line black ; the space between these lines and up 

 half the margin white with black irrorations, with a chestnut 

 spot in the first median interspace and a black spot in the anal 

 lobe ; cilia brown, edged with white. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Jaintia Hills. 2 ? ? . 



Above it much resembles the female of T. istroidea, de Nicev., 

 but below the colour is quite different ; the discal line on fore 

 wings is also more irregular and the chestnut spot on the 

 outer margin of hind wings below near the anal angle has 

 not a black centre as it has in istroidea, and is close to the 

 margin well inside the submarginal line; it also much 

 resembles the female of Tajuria thria, de Nicer., from Sumatra 

 and Burma*, but differs in the blue coloration of the 

 upper surface and in the width and character of the black 

 band. 



* Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. p 161, pi. T. fig. 39. 



