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the upperside is quite different, being of a much darker and richer hue, in C. man- 

 darinus it is distinctly " dull cerulean-blue," the blue colour also does not extend into 

 the discoidal cell of the forewing as it does in that species ; on the underside the outer 

 area of both wings is purplish-brown instead of rufous, in the forewing the macular 

 bands touch at both ends instead of being parallel throughout ; and in the hindwing of 

 C. mandarinus beyond the inner zigzag black line from the second median nervule to 

 the abdominal margin there is a considerable white band, this being obsolete in C. cepheis, 

 the purplish-brown area being continued uninterruptedly and of equal width throughout 

 from the apex of the wing to the anal angle. 



Described from two male specimens exactly alike captured by Lieut. C. H. "Ward, 

 on Nemotha, a peak in Cachar, 3,634 feet high, on October 15th, 1892, one of which 

 he has generously presented to me. Lieut. Ward captured C. mandarinus at the same 

 time and place, (de Niceville.) 



Female. Upperside dark purple-brown, anal lobe black, capped with orange and 

 sprinkled with metallic-blue scales ; a white spot on the abdominal margin 

 immediately above the anal lobe, a fine anteciliary black line, with a white inner line' 

 on the lower half of the hindwing ; tails black, fringed and tipped with white. Cilia 

 white. Underside pure white, markings much as in the male, but the discal bands are 

 broader. Differs from the female of mandarinus in the want of the white band above 

 the anal angle and in the coloration of the underside. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-^, $ ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Distribution. — de Niceville's type male, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 came from Cachar, we have not been able to see it, we therefore give his description 

 and copies of his figure ; the female we describe and figure is from the Khasia Hills 

 from our own collection. 



Genus TAJURIA. 



Tajuria, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 108 (1881). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 244 (1884). 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 370 (1890). 

 Cophanta, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 35. 

 Bemelana, Moore, I.e. p. 37. 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted 

 from the middle of the cell, 10 at three-fourths, 9 from the middle of 7, discocellulars 

 sub-erect, the lower much the longer, slightly concave, vein 3 emitted a little before 

 the lower end of the cell, wing sub-triangular, costa slightly curved, apex sub-acute, 

 outer margin slightly convex, hinder margin slightly sinuous. Hindwing, vein 8 

 extends to the apex of the wing, 7 from about the middle of the cell, 3 from a little before 



