HYPOLYC^NINM 119 



T. diasus, Hew., bred on 20th November 1894, from a pupci given by Mrs. Robsou to 

 Mr. Mackinnon, as a pupa of Camena cleobis, Godart. It appears therefore that 

 Mrs. Robson incorrectly identified her spscimens, and that the note viii. on p. 339, 

 Life history of Camena cleobis, Godart, a lycsenid butterfly, should read, Life history of 

 Tajuria diseus, Hewitson." 



Habitat. — N.W. Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The type is labelled N. India ; Mackinnon and de Niceville record 

 it from Mussuri and de Niceville from Sikkim ; we have two males from the Khasia 

 Hills, our description and figure are fr.om them, and of the female from an example in 

 the B. M. 



TAJURIA THRIA. 

 Plate 727, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ^ . 

 Tajuria thria, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 181, pi. T, figs. 38, (J ; 39, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, with a slight gloss in some lights. 

 Hindwing with the costa as far as the costal nervure whitish, the apex and outer 

 margin narrowly and decreasingly black, towards the anal angle this black margin is 

 reduced to an anteciliary thread, posteriorly inwardly defined by an equally fine 

 thread ; the abdominal margin as far as the sub-median nervure broadly whitish, 

 outwardly becoming blackish, the rest of the wing glittering azure ; anal lobe black, 

 bearing anteriorly a few blue scales ; tails black, with white tips, the outer, from the 

 termination of the first median nervule the longer, the inner one from the termination 

 of the sub-median nervure inwardly ciliated with white. Underside, both wino-s dull 

 chrome-yellow, with a diseal narrow darker line outwardly defined with whitish. 

 Forewing has the discoidal cell closed by a pair of darker lines, the diseal line is 

 outwardly bowed, it commences at the costa and ends on the sub-median nervure ; 

 there is a very obscure sub-marginal fascia ; the inner margin broadly pale. Hindwing 

 has the diseal band from the costa to the second median nervure straight, then 

 zigzagged to the abdominal margin ; the outer margin as far as the diseal line, 

 and from the anal angle to the third median nervule, anterior to which, but not quite 

 reaching the apex of the wing, it is continued in a narrow sub-marginal fascia, white 

 sprinkled with black scales, inwardly bearing a narrow lunular black line ; the anal lobe 

 bears a large round deep black spot, anteriorly with a few metallic pale green scales, a 

 large oval deep black spot in the first median interspace near the margin, a fine black 

 anteciliary thread defined on both sides with an equally fine white thread. Cilia 

 cinereous throughout. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing black, with a broad pale blue area from the inner 

 margin to the median nervule, extending slightly into the first median interspace, 



