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slender and sinuous, extending from the sub-median nervure almost to tlie costa. 

 Hindwing, lower part with a large area of grey extending to the third median nervule, 

 bordered outwardly with white and black lines, part of abdominal margin white ; anal 

 black spot partly bordered with fulvous and silvery-lilac; a sub-marginal black- 

 centred fulvous spot between the first and second median nervules ; tails black, tipped 

 with white, the outer more slender than the inner, and somewhat shorter. Antennae 

 black, annulated with white, club black. 



Female unknown. 



Differs from R. megistia, Hewitson, habitat unknown, in the ground colour of the 

 underside which is dull rufous-brown, that of Hewitson's species being orange (in his 

 description) or orange-yellow (in his plate). (Doherty.) 



Expanse of wings, $ l^ inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon. 



Taken at Garjiaghat and Baghrihat, on the Kali, 2,500 to 3,000 feet elevation. 



We have not seen this species, and have not been able to ascertain where Doherty's 

 type now is ; our figures are copies of his. 



TAJURIA JANGALA. 



Plate 727, figs. 5, ^, 5a, ? , 5b, <J . 



Amhlypodia jangala, Horsfielcl, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 113, J (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 



Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 46, pi. la, fig. 11, <J (1857). 

 Myrina jangala, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 37 (1865). 

 Eemelana Jangala, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 37. 

 Tajuria jangala, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 330 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 638. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 303. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50, and 



1897, p. 666. 

 Myrina ravata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 776, pi. 12, fig. 11, 9- Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. 



Suppl. p. 5 (1869). 

 Sithon toestermannii, var. Wood- Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, p. 233. 

 Sithon westermannii, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, I.e. 1881, p. 249. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brow^nish-black. Forewing with the cell and the 

 basal two-thirds below the median vein and its first branih indigo-blue, somewhat 

 shining and chiefly distinguishable in certain lights. Hindwing with the middle area 

 of a similar shade of indigo-blue limited more or less to the cell and basal three-fourths 

 of the median interspaces ; abdominal fold pale towards the base ; anal lobe dull red 

 with grey scales on each side, and a black cilia with a white mark in it ; tails black, 

 tipped with white. Cilia of both wings black, with white tips. Underside ferruginous- 

 brown, varying in shade of colour in difi"erent examples, sometimes more or less 



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