LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



•keuingin colour to the ana] lobe, where the black spot is darkest, marginal line black, 

 ;h an inner white line from the anal lobe to the end of vein 3. Underside as in 

 ; male. 

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



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, $). 



Male. Upperside with the three interspaces outside the cell, and the whole of 



interior of the median interspace, with the exception of a small part where 



black outer marginal band runs round the hinder angle, almost pure white, 

 re being only a few bluish-grey scales basally. Hindwing with the entire space 

 ow the costal band pale bluish-grey, the upper disc whitish, the abdominal fold 

 ite, the entire wing very pale and inclined to whitish, a very fine outer marginal 

 ck line and some of the black spots of the underside visible through the wing, 

 derside very pure white, spots disposed as in the other form, but much smaller. 



Female like its own male above and below, but on the upperside the white parts 

 more extensive, and the ground colour of the wings paler and whiter. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? l-j^ to 1^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Borneo. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Tenasserim, Sikkim and Sibsaghor in 

 per Assam ; it is a very common species in the Khasia Hills, from whence we have 

 sived a great many examples of both sexes, of both forms. 



TAJURIA ILLURGIS. 



Plate 728, figs. 2, <J,2a, ? , 2b, $. 



lolaus illiirgis, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 10, pi. i, figs. 37, 38, ^ (1869). Manders, 



Trans. Ent. Soo. 1890, p. 529. 

 Coplianta illurgis, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 36. 

 Tajtiria illurgis, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 375 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 304. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 666. Maekinnon and de Niceville, id. 



1898, p. 387. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Furewing brownish-black, very similar to the upper- 

 e of the wet-season form of T. maculata, the black colour being perhaps a shade 

 er, the central greyish-blue and white space more constricted ; the basal half of 

 ! first median interspace is white, a short narrow white streak above the second 

 dian nervule, the basal half of the interno-median interspace white, outwardly 

 fused with dark greyish-ljlue scales basally. Hindwing with the costal space, 

 lited by the sub-costal vein to its end, entirely brownish-black, the abdominal area 



