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edged with white, very little beyond the middle of the wing, extending from near 

 the costa to near the hinder margin, very slightly outwardly curved, the lowest 

 lunule longer than the rest. Hlndwing with a similar discal band a little nearer the 

 margin, with an inward curve from the costal vein to vein 3, then downwards and 

 inwards in a bluntly angular form to the abdominal margin above the anal lobe, 

 touching the end of the sub-marginal series ; both wings with a sub-marginal series of 

 lunular marks, outwardly edged with white, somewhat linear on the forewing, short 

 and angular on the hindwing ; a large black spot on the anal lobe, with a white mark 

 above it, containing a brown line through the mark, the lower half of the outer margin 

 broadly suffused with bluish-white, thickly irrorated with bluish-grey atoms, a black 

 spot crowned with orange in the first interspace ; terminal line finely brown, becoming 

 black hindwards where it has an inner white thread. Antennse black, ringed with 

 white, club with a red tip ; frons black ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body above 

 and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the outer two-thirds black, the inner blue 

 colour paler and duller in colour than the blue patch of the male, the blue very 

 narrowly enters the cell, it fills the basal half of the median interspace, and the basal 

 three-fourths of the space below. Hindwing nearly all pale blackish, the disc and base 

 blue, outwardly and posteriorly for three-fourths of the space sprinkled with blue 

 scales between the veins, the anal markings as in the male. Underside similar. 



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



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



Distribution. — The types came from Sikkim and are in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; Mackinnon and de Niceville record it from Masuri ; we have both sexes 

 from the Khasia Hills. The type of teza (of which we have two female examples) 

 came from the Jaintia Hills ; after a very careful examination of our specimens, we 

 have come to the conclusion that the latter are but diminutive females of istroidea. 



TAJURIA MEGISTIA. 



Plate 727, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Myrina megistia, Hewitson, 111. Diurii. Lep. Suppl. p. 5, pi. Suppl. 3, figs 77, 78, (J (1869). 

 Tajuria megistia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 383 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 303. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black. Forewing without markings, being uniformly 

 black. Hindwing very nearly resembling the hindwing of T. istroidea, but the blue 

 patch is somewhat narrower, on its lower side only just reaching to within the upper 

 outer angle of the cell. Underside paler and much more ochreous, the discal bands more 

 linear and outwardly well curved on the forewing ; on the hindwing the discal band 



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