lU LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



line with bluish-white iuuer thread from the anal lobe, becoming obsolete before 

 reaching the apex of the wing ; tails black, tipped with w'hite. Cilia of forewing 

 white, with a blackish base, of the hindwing white, with black spots at the vein 

 ends. Underside creamy-greyish-white. Forewing with a very fine discal lunular 

 brown line, reaching neither the costa nor the hinder margin, rather close to the outer 

 margin, generally A'^ery indistinct. Hindwing with a similar discal line, but somewhat 

 more distinct, sinuous hindwards where it curves to the abdominal margin a little above 

 the anal angle ; both wings with a double sub-marginal series of pale lunular marks, 

 indistinct on the hindwing, very faintly indicated on the forewing, a rather large black 

 anal spot, another in the first interspace, both capped with dull orange-red, the space 

 between them containing some black and blue scales. Antennae black, ringed with 

 white, club with a red tip ; frons white, with a black middle stripe ; eyes ringed with 

 white, a white collar ; body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside duller in colour than the male and somewhat paler, the 

 marginal bands broader, the discal band on the hindwing more pronounced, and 

 on the forewing there is often a small whitish space outside the end of the cell. 

 Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1-jAj to l-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon. 



DiSTRiBUTiOK. — We have taken both sexes in Mhow, Poona and Bombay ; we figure 

 a pair from Jabalpur in our collection ; Betham records it from the Central Provinces, 

 Maekiunon and de Niceville from Mussuri, de Rhe-Philipe from Lucknow, de Niceville 

 from Bolahat, Malda, Barrackpore, Orissa, Rutnagherry, the Shevaroy Hills and Jafiua 

 in Ceylon, it seems to be widely spread, but is never common ; both sexes much 

 resemble the female of T. argenteus, but it is undoubtedly a good and distinct species. 



TAJURIA THYIA. 



Plate 726, figs. 4, (? , ^a, $ , -ib, (J ; fig. 5, var. pallescens. 



Tajuria thyia, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 336, pi. H, fig. 11, (J . Swinhoe, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 30-i. 

 Tajuria thyia, var. palescens, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii. p. 117. 



Imago. — -Male. Upperside dark purple-blue. Forewing with very broad, black, 

 costal and outer marginal borders, very broad at the apex, filling the cell, and the whole 

 space above the first median nervule, except for a small spot of the blue colour, 

 immediately above its middle, its inner margin rounded, and the black colour some- 

 times running narrowly along the hinder margin. Jlindicing with the costal space 

 black, with the centre of the space pale, outer marginal line black, veins black, 

 abdominal fold pale blackish ; a black spot in the anal lobe, edged outwardly with 



