110 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



margin is well rounded, making the wing broader, in lolaus ister the outer margin 

 is straight, thereby making the wing much narrower. Colonel Swinhoe* suggests 

 that lolaus ister is the female and Cainena carmentalis \ the male of one and the 

 same species. I made the same remark when describing the latter, but now that I 

 possess specimens of lolaus ister, I think it is improbable that this is so, as the 

 coloration of my species is of a distinctly purple shade, while lolaus ister is pale 

 " cerulean-blue," as Hewitson quite correctly describes it. Tajuria relata, Distant,;}: is 

 another allied but quite distinct species, which is said by Mr. H. J. Elwes to be the 

 same as T. isoeus, Hewitson. It is very unfortunate that the female sex of so many 

 nllied species should alone be known. 



Described from two examples from Tenasserim and three from N.-E. Sumatra in 

 my collection. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Sumatra. 



We have not seen this species, it is described from examples from the Ataran 

 Valley, Tenasserim, Burma, and from N.E. Sumatra ; we give copies of de Niceville's 

 figure. 



This species apparently only differs from the female of Tajuria dominus, H. H. 

 Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 600, pi. 33, fig. 12 $, which we have from Borneo, in 

 having the yellow caps above the anal spot on the hindwing below, connected with the 

 yellow cap above the sub-terminal spot in the first median interspace. 



TAJURIA ALBIPLAGA. 



Plate 725, figs. 5, <J , 5a, ?, 5b, $. 



Tajuria alMplaga, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 459, pi. 39, figs. 1, <?; 2, ? ; id. Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. .378 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings cerulean-blue with hardly any gloss. 

 Cilia grey throughout. Forewing with the costa bounded posteriorly by the sub-costal 

 iiervure, the apex broadly (including the anterior portion of the cell), and the outer 

 margin decreasingly to the anal angle, black. Ilindwing with the costal margin and 

 apex light fuscous, the two fine tails black, tipped with white, a fine anteciliary black 

 line. Underside, both wings grey, of the same shade as in T. jehana, Moore, a 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 302, n. 289. 



t Jourii. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vii. p. 335, n. 112, pi. H, fig. 10. $ . 



X "Rhopalocera Malayana," pp. 246 and 460, n. 3, pi. xxi. fig. 12, ? (1884-86), from Province 

 Wellesley, and Malacca (Bistant), Perak {coll. de NiceciUe). 



