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with Hewitson's figure of lolaus mantra in 111. Diurn. Lcp., Lycaenidse, pi. xs. fig. 24, 

 female (1865), which figure appears to have been taken from what Ilewitson, on page 

 46, n. 20, calls a " var. " from Macassar in Celebes, which is said to have the hindwing 

 on the upperside " all brown," in 0. ogyges it is nearly all blue. Distant has evidently 

 figured a female of the true T. mantra in Ehop. Malayana, p. 245, n. 2, pi. xxi. fig. 11 

 (1884). Tajuria relata, Distant, I.e. p. 246, n. 3, pi. xxi. fig. 12, female (1884), is 

 perhaps still more nearly allied to 0. ogyges than is T. mantra, but that species differs 

 from the same sex of 0. ogyges in its smaller size, and the greatly curved form of the 

 discal line on the underside of the forewing ; in 0. ogyges it is almost straight. 



Described from five males and a female in my collection, (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, ^ l^o to 1to> ¥ 1 A inches. 



Habitat. — Maulmein, Tenasserim, Burma. 



We have not seen this species, the types are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, we 

 therefore give copies of de Niceville's figures. 



OPS J!TA. 

 Plate 729, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, $. 

 Ops seta, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soo. 1895, p. 299, pi. P, fig. 38, <J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings pale shining (but not iridescent) 

 cerulean-blue. Foreioings with the base of the costa pale ochreous, the rest of the 

 costa, the apex very broadly and the outer margin decreasingly black ; the large 

 round discal patch of black androconia is not very distinct, but can be seen in some 

 lights as a darker shade. Hindwing with the costa very broadly black, extending 

 as far as the second sub-costal nervule ; the outer margin decreasingly black, reduced 

 to a fine anteciliary thread at the third median nervule ; anal lobe black, anteriorly 

 obscurely crowned with ferruginous, sprinkled throughout thickly with white scales ; 

 tails black, edged and tipped with white. Cilia of both wings fuscous. Underside, 

 both wings pale reddish-brown, outwardly becoming whitish ; the discocellular 

 nervules marked with a dark brown line, a dark brown discal line, and an obscure 

 sub-marginal fascia. Forewing has the discal line gently outwardly curved, formed 

 of outwardly curved lunules, each lunule crowning an interspace, the base commences 

 on the sub-costal nervule just within the point where the third sub-costal nervule 

 originates, and ends on the sub-median nervule ; the inner margin up to the sub- 

 median fold white. Hindwing with the discal line throughout its length highly 

 irregular, posteriorly it is zigzagged and recurved to the abdominal margin ; a minute 

 ])lack spot surrounded by a narrow ferruginous ring in the first median interspace, 

 between this spot and the outer margin, and the next two interspaces towards the 

 anal angle, black thickly sprinkled over with white scales ; the anal lobe bears a 



