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wbite ; tails black, tipped with white. Underside French grey. Forewing with a very 

 fine, brown line closing the cell, a fine brown, lunular discal line, very slightly 

 outwardly curved from near the costa to near the hinder margin. Hindwing with a 

 similar discal line, angulated below its middle, curving at its lower end, to the 

 abdominal margin a little above the anal angle ; a black spot on the anal lobe capped 

 with orange, another in the first interspace ringed with orange, a pale brown spot in 

 the interspace between them, ringed with pale bluish -white ; both wings with a double 

 sub-marginal series of pale brownish lunular marks, more or less obsolete on the 

 forewing ; terminal line finely brown, with an inner white thread which becomes obsolete 

 before reaching the apex of the wing. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with 

 a red tip ; frons black, with a thin white line on each side ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the winors. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, with some brighter blue basal irrorations. 

 Foreiclng with the black bands narrower than in the male, the blue inner colour paling 

 outwards, becoming broadly nearly whitish, and filling more than half of the median 

 interspaces. Hindicing much as in the male, but duller and darker in colour. Under- 

 side with the ground colour paler than in the male, the markings similar, the discal 

 lines darker and more pronounced. 



Expanse of wings, $ \-^^ to 1 j^^, ? l-j% inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Described from several males and one female in our collection from the Khasia 

 Hills, from whence the type male, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, came ; the 

 female is here described and fiojured for the first time. 



TAJURIA DIJIUS. 



Plate 726, figs. 6, <J, 6a, ?, 6b, $. 



lolaus diseus, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 45, pi. 20, figs. 27, 28, <? , 26, 9 (1865). 



Tajuria diseus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 378 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 303. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 387. 

 Camena cleohis, Mrs. S. Robson (nee Godart), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. 1895, p. 339 (life 



history). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark cerulean -blue. Forewing with a broad black 

 apical band, its inner margin across the upper outer part of the cell, gradually curving to 

 the hinder margin one-eighth from the hinder angle. Hindwing with the costal space 

 (limited by the sub-costal vein) black, outer marginal line black, the abdominal space 

 with its lower part black, becoming paler towards the base ; anal lobe bright orange, 

 containing a black spot with some metallic blue scales on it, a pale bluish-white line 

 below it ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia on both wings black basally, white 



