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spot, anteriorly with a small patch of clear yellow ; the submedian 

 interspace between the discal line and the outer margin heavily sprinkled 

 with (as seen under a magnifying glass) dull blue scales on a black 

 ground ; an anteciliary black thread. Cilia whitish at the anal angle, 

 anteriorly black. 



Near to " Iolaus " ister, Hewitson,* from India, but that species 

 is smaller, apparently of a lighter shade of blue on the upperside, the 

 apical area of the hindwing more widely fuscous, and the yellow 

 patch crowning the black spot in the first median interspace of the 

 hindwing on the underside much smaller. Also near to T. thyia^ 

 de Niceviile,f from the Khasi Hills, Assam, but that species is smaller, 

 with the black coloration on the upperside of boih wings more extensive, 

 with a very narrow ferruginous ring surrounding the subanal black 

 spot on the hindwing below. Also near to T. albiplaga, de Niceville,$ 

 from Sikkim, but that species in the male has the blue coloration of 

 the upperside of both wings much paler, and also differs a good deal 

 in the details of the markings of the underside. 



Described from a single example (the type) obtained at Sukabumi, 

 2,000 ft., Western Java, during 1893, by Mr. H. Fruhstorfer; and 

 another specimen taken in August in the Battak Mountains of North- 

 East Sumatra and kindly given to me by Hofrath Dr. L. Martin. 



28. TAJURIA TYRO, n. sp., PI. P, Fig. 40, 9 . 



Habitat : Ataran Valley, Tenasserim, Burma ; N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : $ , 1*25 to 1*35 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, both wings pale cerulean- 

 blue. Forewing with the costa as far as the subcostal nervure, the apex 

 widely, and the outer margin decreasingly black. Hindiving with 



* 111. Dium. Lep., Lyccenidce, p. 43, n. 13, pi. xix, figs. 15, 16, female (1865). Mr. G. 

 P. Hampson has kindly examined the type specimen in the British Museum collection, 

 and informs me that it is from Moulmein, Burma, Archdeacon Clerk's collection, that it 

 may be a ma'e, but the legs are wanting and the apex of the abdomen has been destroyed 

 by mites, so that the sex is a little uncertain. It has three subcostal nervules to the fore- 

 wing. It has no secondary sexual characters. 



■\ Tajuria thyia, de Nice'ville, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. Til, p. 336, n. 13, pi. H, 

 fig. 11, male (1892). 



% Tajuria albiplaga, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 459, pL xxxix, figs. 1, 

 male ; 2, female. 



