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suffused with pale blackisli-brown, the abdominal fold a little paler, becoming nearly 

 white basally, the rest of the wing dark greyish-blue, much darker than in T. maculata ; 

 anal lobe with a dull, small orange spot, ringed with black, an indistinct black, sub- 

 terminal spot in each of the next two interspaces, a black marginal line with a whitish 

 inner line from the anal lobe, which becomes obsolete before reaching the apex of the 

 wing ; tails black, tipped with white, the upper disc of the wing pale, somewhat 

 whitish, the base somewhat darkly suffused. Underside white, with a bluish tint. 

 Forewing with a thick blackish line closing the cell, an outwardly well curved, discal 

 lunular line, from near the costa to near the sub-median vein, the middle lunules 

 longer than the others and more outwardly curved, a sub-marginal pale thin band, and 

 a still paler similar band near the margin. Hindwing with a rather prominent deep 

 black, short thick line or thin bar at the end of the cell, a discal outwardly well-curved 

 lunular line, like that on the forewing, a pale sub-marginal, somewhat lunular band, 

 a series of grey macular marks close to the margin, a small black spot in the first 

 interspace, close to the margin capped with pale dull orange, an indistinct small blackish 

 spot at the anal angle, with a small dull orange mark against it, terminal line black. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a dull red tip ; frons white, with a black 

 middle stripe ; head and body blackish above, whitish beneath. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the middle space whiter and broader hind- 

 wards, the bluish-grey basal suffusion duller in colour. Hindwing with the costal baud 

 paler than it is in the male, the rest of the wing more or less suffused with dark grey, 

 with a pale whitish space in the upper disc divided by the veins, a sub-marginal row 

 of black more or less lunular spots, black terminal line with an inner white thread. 

 Underside as in the male, but on the forewing the discal line ends near the sub-median 

 vein in a small diffuse black mark, and in the hindwing there is a small black sub-costal 

 spot near the base. 



Expanse of wings, ^ \^q, $ 1^-^ to 1^% inches. 



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



Distribution. — Recorded by Watson from the Chin Hills, by Manders from the 

 Shan States, by Mackinnon and de Nice'ville from Masuri ; our descriptions and figures 

 are from a pair in the B. M. 



TAJURIA ILLURGIOIDES. 



Plate 728, figs. 3, $ , .3a, ? , 3b, $ . 

 Tajuria illurgioides, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 375, pi. 28, fig. 218, ^ • 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing brownish-black, a broad whitish space 

 below the median nervure divided by veins 2 and 3, its basal portion suffused with 

 blue. Hindwing with the costal space broadly brownish-black, the abdominal fold 



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