674 mh. h. h. deuce on bornban lto«niDjE. [June 16, 



out to be P. lueidus and Tajuria hlanka to be its female, the insect 

 must stand under the latter name, unless T. hlatika is the female 

 of the true P. eippus. But, I think, before we can arrive at a 

 correct conclusion, we must await the arrival of more specimens. 

 I note that the thorax beneath, in all the specimens I have seen of 

 P. cippiis and P. lueidus, is white. 



" Tajuma donatana, de Nice'v. 



Kina Balu (Water sii:) ; Banguey I. (Waterstr.). 



The specimen obtained on Banguey I. has the blue rather duller 

 and its areas rather reduced. 



Tajueia BEEENis, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. Q, d ■) 

 cJ . Upperside bright palo blue, colour of Purlisa (jujanteus, Dist., 

 paler on the disc of the fore wing: fore wing — costal margin 

 black ; apex broadly black, reaching to just below the lower median 

 nervule, apparently blacker at the end of the cell ; inner margin 

 straight ; cilia black, except at outer angle where it is greyish : 

 hind wing- — costal margin whitish, darker towards the apex, wliich 

 is narrowly black ; anal fold whitish ; a black anteciliary line ; 

 cilia greyish ; lohe with a black spot partially covered with blue 

 scales and crowned with a small red spot. Underside grey, colour 

 of T. thyia, de Nicev.', indistinct lines closing the cells in both wings 

 as in that species ; the ultra-median linear band much as in T. thyia, 

 but much bowed outwards in the fore wing and straighter in the hind 

 wing. The anal markings are arranged as in T. thyia, but the 

 black spots are larger and the yellow areas darker in colour and 

 more extensive; cilia grey. Head, thorax, and abdomen con- 

 colorous with wings on both surfaces. Two tails of about equal 

 length, black, bordered and tipped with white. 



Expanse 1| inch. Types Mus. Staud. & Druce, 



Kina Balu' (IFaiewtr.). 



Dr. Staudinger has received two males of this species which are 

 identical. Although I have compared it with T. thyia, it is not by 

 any means closely allied to it. The outer margin of the hind wing 

 in T. thyia is much straighter, and the wing is much more produced 

 anally than in T. lerenis. 



I thought at first sight that this species might come into Mr. de 

 Nicevilie's genus Ops ^, as it appears to have a darker black s])ot at 

 the end of the cell, but on a closer examination I cannot detect 

 that these scales present a different aspect to any others on the 

 wing. I have not seen any species of Ops at present. 



Below will be found described a beautiful new species of Tajuria 

 from Java ^. 



I Tajuria thyia, de NicSv. J. B. N. H. S. vol. vii. p. 336, pi. H. fig. 11 (1892). 

 » Ops, de Nic6T. id. vol. ix. p. 296 (1895). 



> Tajubia dacia, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. figa. 4 cJ, 5 $.) 

 cJ. Upperside rich shining ultramarine blue: fore wing — costal and outer 

 margins and upex broadly deep black, much as in 2'. diiet^. Hew. ; cilia black, 



