102 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the lower end, 2 from a little before the middle, sub-median nervure nearly straight, 

 internal nervure recurved, wing sub-ovate, costa obliquely convex to the apex, which is 

 rounded, outer margin rounded, prolonged in a more or less distinct angle at the end 

 of vein 3, with two slender tails of about equal length at the ends of vein 2 and of 

 the sub-median nervure ; all the species are more or less blue or purple on the upperside 

 of the male and usually in the females also ; body robust, palpi porrect, structure very 

 much as in the genus Pratapa, but the very important secondary sexual characters 

 present in that genus are altogether wanting in Tajuria. 



Type, liesperia cippus, Fabricius [longinus, Moore, ex errore). 



TAJURIA INDRA. 



Plate 724, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, 5 , 4b, ^ , 4c, larva and pupa. 



Sithon indra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 527. de Niceyille, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1885, 



pp. 3 and 49. Hampson, id. 1888, p. 358. 

 Tajuria indra, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 373 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1891, p. 50. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1896, p. 386, pi. 5, figs. 4, 4a, larva and pupa. 

 Polyommatus nedymond, Godart (nee Cramer), Enc. Meth. ix. p. 634 (1823). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet-blue. Forewing, in certain lights the wing 

 looks violet-brown, with beautiful glistening, broad blue streaks on the veins, in the 

 cell and in all the interspaces, and in other lights there appears to be a very large 

 square patch outside the end of the cell of a duller blue colour than the rest of the 

 wing, costal line brown, an outer marginal, moderately broad and nearly even brown band. 

 Ilindwing with a broad brown costal band, the immediate costal space narrowly pale ; 

 an outer marginal brown band, narrower than it is on the forewing, and narrowest in 

 its middle, abdominal space brown, the fold pale, the rest of the wing blue, in certain 

 lights with all the veins and broad streaks in the interspaces brilliant glistening blue ; 

 anal lobe black, with a few metallic-blue scales, and a touch of dull red on its upper 

 side, a bluish-white line on its outer side, and black cilia with white tips, and a small 

 white space on the abdominal margin immediately above the lobe ; tails black, fringed 

 with white ; terminal line black, with an inner broken white line, from the anal lobe to 

 vein 3. Cilia white. Underside greyish-white, markings chocolate-brown. Forewing 

 with a broad discal dark band, narrowing hind wards from the costa to near the hinder 

 margin where it ends in a somewhat diffuse point, the baud slightly outwardly oblique, 

 its inner margin even, its outer margin sinuous ; the ground colour of the wing outside 

 this band rather darker than the rest of the wing, containing a pale brown sub- 

 marginal band. Ilindwing with a narrower, dark discal band, which narrows slightly 

 hiudwards, and is nearly straight down from the costa to vein 3, and has a dark line 



