122 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



comes down from the costa with a very slight inward curve to vein 2 (nearly straight), 

 then in a series of sharp angles touching and running along the inner side of the anal 

 series, curves to the abdominal margin ; both wings with an indistinct sub-marginal 

 line ; a broad space from the anal lobe to vein 4 bluish-grey, containing darker grey 

 spots, capped with white, the white caps inwardly edged by a fine black lunular line, a 

 large black spot on the anal lobe, another in the first interspace. Cilia black on the 

 forewing, grey on the hiudwing, becoming white hind wards with black spots at the vein 

 ends, a black terminal line with a white inner thread from the anal lobe upwards which 

 [becomes obsolete before reaching the apex. Antennaj black, ringed with white, club 

 with an orange tip ; frons white, with a black middle stripe ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the whigs. 



Female. Upperside of a uniform black colour. Forewing with a blue stripe 

 above the hinder margin, running from the base to one-fourth before the outer margin, 

 pointed at both ends, limited by the median vein and its first branch, and by the sub- 

 median vein, some of the blue scaling coming below the latter. Hindwing uniformly 

 black, anal markings as in the male. Underside exactly similar. 



Expanse of wings, J ? 1^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



We have received a good many examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, a 

 pair of which we figure ; the female is here described for the first time ; though the 

 male, especially on the upperside, is very like the male of T. istroidea, the female is very 

 different. Hewitson's type has no locality. 



TAJURIA YAJNA. 



Plate 727, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, <J . 



Bemelana yajna, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 128, and 1889, p. 134, pi. 10, fig. 7, $. 

 Tajuria yajna, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 383 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Allied to Myrina inegistia of Hewitson. Upperside, both wings 

 black. Hindwing with upper part glistening azure from the first sub-costal to the 

 discoidal nervule, extending beyond the cell (slightly) and almost to the costal nervure 

 and the third median nervule, but not approaching the apex of the costa ; anal lobe 

 grey, touched with fulvous and bluish, a slender marginal bluish line on the lower 

 part of the wing. Cilia black. Underside, both wings rufous-brown, darker at the 

 apex of the forewing ; a broken sub-marginal darker line obscurely visible. Hindwing 

 crossed by a slender transverse line of fulvous, almost straight to the first median 

 nervule, bordered outwardly with slender lines of black and white, continued by similar 

 lines at right angles with it from the first median nervule to the abdominal margin. 

 On the Forewing the line is chiefly white (the fulvous and black being obsolescent), 



