104 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



TAJURIA TARPINA. 



Plate 725, figs. 1, ,?, la, $, lb, ^. 



Myrina farpina, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. Suppl. p. 23, pi. Suppl. iii. a, figs. 93, 94, $ (1878). 

 Sithon tarpina, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. See. Bengal, 1880, p. 233. 

 Tajuria tarpina, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 373 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, dark violet-blue, somewhat metallic in certain lights. 

 Forewing with a narrow costal black band, which widens somewhat at the apex and 

 runs down the outer margin, narrowing hindwards, but is broader here than it is on the 

 costa. Hindwing with the costal space broadly blackish, an outer marginal black band, 

 attenuated in the middle portion of the margin ; abdominal fold greyish ; tails black, 

 tipped with white ; anal lobe black, with an orange spot in it, with a short white thread 

 on its outer side and a white spot on its upper side, against the abdominal margin. 

 Cilia black, on the hindwing it is tipped with white. Underside white, with a faint 

 l)lue flush on the basal portions, bands rich, dark chocolate-brown. Forewing with a 

 very broad outer marginal band, occupying more than the outer third of the wing, very 

 .slightly narrowing hindwards, its inner edge almost even, a line of conjoined white 

 lunules running down its middle. Hindwing with a similar but narrower outer 

 marginal band of even width, without the middle line of white lunules, a black anal 

 spot, with a white spot above it on the abdominal edge, another black spot in the first 

 median interspace, both very heavily capped with orange, a short brown line above the 

 orange that caps the anal spot, the interspace between the spots tinted with orange, a 

 sub-marginal white line which is broad and diffuse in parts and contains a brown 

 lunular mark in each of the middle interspaces. Antennse black, with an orange tip, 

 its joints marked with white on the underside only ; frons brown, with a white stripe 

 on each side ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside blackish-brown, with a lilac gloss, shading darker towards 

 the margins on both wings, markings similar and the underside exactly as in the male. 

 Expanse of wings, ^ $ l-i%- to 1 1% inches. 



Habitat. — South Andaman Islands. 



Appears to be confined to the South Andamans, and even there is rather rare ; 

 our description and figures are from examples in the B. M. 



TAJURIA CIPPUS. 



Plate 725, figs. 2, <J , 2a, 9 , 2b, $ , 2c, larva and pupa. 



Eesperia cippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. v. p. 429 (1798). 

 Pohjommatus cippus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 634 (1823). 

 Tajuria cippus, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidsk. 1897, p. 146. 



