1896.] MB. H. H. DEUOB ON BOENEAN LXC^NIDjB. 673 



much as in T. indra, Moore, but has a much larger white area than 

 any females we possess from Continental India. 



Tajueia dominus, H. H. Druce. 



This may be the male of T. iscBus, Hew., Hewitson's male 

 T. isceus being in fact Britomartis deoboides, Blwes, as pointed out by 

 Mr. de Niceville in the Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. p. 307. 

 Dr. Staudinger has sent me a male from Malacca which is very 

 close to T. dominus, but has a greener shade of blue on the upper- 

 side and the orange at the anal angle below is more yellow. I have 

 also received a female T. dominus from Kina Balu, and note that 

 the blue on the upper surface is more shining and that the outer 

 margin of the fore wing is certainly more convex than in the 

 female from Malacca. If Mr. Distant's type male of T. relata 

 should prove to be a female, then most probably the male referred 

 to above from Malacca is the male relata ; but for the present I do 

 not think it is advisable to sink T. dominus. 



I, however, fail to see how Mr. de Niceville can form the con- 

 clusion, from the possession of a female T. relata from Perak that 

 agrees exactly with Hewitson's fig. 14, pi. xix., that " Hewitson 

 was correct in the first instance in calling his original type a male " 

 (vide J. B. N. H. S. vol. ix. p. 308). 



Mr. de Niceville has described the genus Britomartis as having 

 only two subcostal nervules to the fore wing, and his B. buto is also 

 described as having but two ; in the figure given of this species 

 (J. B. N. H. S. vol. ix. pi. P. fig. 41), three subcostal nervules are 

 distinctly shown, doubtless in error. 



Colonel Swinhoe has lately described Tajuria valentia ', which, 

 according to Mr. de Niceville, is the same as Britomartis deoboides, 

 as that species is the 2\ mantra of the ' Butterflies of India, etc' 



Tajueia blanka ? 



Tajuria hlanka, de Nicev. J. A. S. B. vol. Ixiii. p. 39, pi. iv. 

 fig. 4, ? (1894). 



Kina Balu ( Waterstr.). 



Dr. Staudinger has sent a fine female specimen which agrees 

 well with Mr. de Niceville's figure and with his description in all 

 points, excepting as regards the thorax below, which he describes 

 as drab ; in the specimen before me it is white. Dr. Staudinger 

 writes that it is certainly the female of Pratapa lucidus, mihi. 

 The female of P. cippus is, I believe, unknown, so that we cannot 

 judge by analogy ; but, despite the different appearance of the 

 underside, I think it is quite possible that Dr. Staudinger is right. 

 Mr. de Niceville and Dr. Martin record two specimens of Camena 

 cippus, Fabr., from Sumatra, but there is no note as to their sex. 

 Can these be specimens of my P. lucidus, which certainly occurs 

 in Sumatra ? If, as I suspect, these two specimens should turn 



* Tajuria vakniia, Swinh. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser, 6, vol. xvii. p. 358 (1896). 



