EEYCIXID.E — TAaILA. 



TAXILA THUISTO. 5, G. 



Upperside. Male uniform dark brown. 



UxDERSiDE rufous. ^Interior wing ^ntb a longitudinal band within the cell, a 

 second below it, and a short transverse baud at the end of the cell, all blue, followed 

 by three macular transverse bands : the first black, bordered outwardly with blue ; 

 the second and third (near the outer margin) white or slightly blue, bordered inwardty 

 with black. Posterior wing crossed twice transversely near the base \nth blue ; before 

 the middle by several ii-regidar spots ; beyond the middle by a baud of conical spots, 

 and near the outer margin by a band of lunular spots, all black bordered outwardly 

 with blue. 



Female rufous clouded at the base. Both wings crossed transversely beyond the 

 middle by a baud of oblong black spots, each spot marked with dull blue — those near 

 the costal margin of the anterior wing interrupted by five white spots. Both wings 

 with a band of lunular black spots neai' the outer margin, each spot traversed bj' a Hne 

 of blue or white. Anterior wing ^ith a transverse baud of black spots before the 

 middle. Underside (fig. 5) does not chfTer from the male, except that it is lighter. 



Expan. 1^ in. Hab. Singapore. 



In the Collectious of W. W. Saunders and A. E. Wallace. 



TAXILA ORPHXA. 7. 



Emesis Orph/ia, Boisd. Sjjec. Gen. PI. .21, underside. 



Upperside. Male dark browu. Crossed transversely at the middle by an 

 ecjual band of grey-white. 



Underside carmiue, with numerous spots of black aud blue. Posterior Aving 

 with a band of light blue, aud a similar band of light vellow near the outer margin, 

 separated by a baud of black. 



Mr. Westwood is in error with regard to the insects figured as Orphna, male and female, in Plate 

 LXIX. of the " Genera of Diumal Lepidoptera," misled by having seen Boisduval's figure of the 

 uudei-side only. On the underside Orphna does not ditier from the species figured in the " Genera ' 

 for which (as it is now without one) I propose the name of Tanita — Taxila Tauita. 



