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broadly black, narrowing rapidly round the apex and becoming narrow on the binder 

 third of the wing, abdominal fold also black ; the small anal lobe black, with a blue 

 spot in it on its outer side ; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings black, 

 with white tips. Underside silvery-white highly glossed, with a discal, very finely 

 brown sinuous line across both wing?, often obsolete on the forewing, its lower part on 

 the hind wing curving round to the abdominal margin ; a black anal spot, another in 

 the first interspace, both capped with orange ; both wings with a brown marginal line 

 with an inner whitish thread. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a red tip ; 

 frons black, with a fine middle white line ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body 

 blackish above with blue pubescence, gi-ey beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, but also glistening. Forewing with the 

 black marginal bands broader, especially on the outer margin. Hindwing with the 

 costal and marginal bands as in the male. Underside with the ground colour very 

 unlike that of the male, being grey with a faint coppery tint, not glistening silvery 

 white as in the male, the markings are however very similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1 j% to 1^, $ ly^- inches. 



Larva, feeds on a leafless hanging parasite, Viscuin angulatum ; it is not like 

 other Camenas, being green and furry. 



Pupa, of the usual type, but flattened, a good deal like that of Curetis, with more 

 of a waist. It is a splendid representation of a monkey's face, when looked at from 

 above. (Davidson, from Bell's notes, after rearing the insect.) 



Note. — A similar curious resemblance to a monkey's face is represented in the 

 pupa of Spalgis epius, Westwood, in our vol. vii. p. 234, pi. 628, figs. 3c, 3d, 3e. 



Habitat. — Nepal, Simla, Assam, Bhutan, Burma, Karwar. 



DiSTRiBtfTiOiSr. — Manders records it from the Shan States, Elwes from the Garo 

 Hills, Hewitson from Simla, Moore from Nepal, de Niceville from Sibsaghar in Upper 

 Assam, Jorehat, Buxa, Bhutan ; Davidson, Bell and Aitken from Karwar ; we have 

 received numerous males from the Khasia Hills. Our description and figures of the 

 male are from a Khasia Hill example, and of the female from a specimen kindly lent to 

 us by Mr. Davidson. 



Note. — Aurivillius, in his remarks as to the Fabrician types in the Zoological 

 Museum, Copenhagen, states *: — ''Hesperia cippus, Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 429 (1798). 

 Two males which belong to the genus Tajuria (Moore), de Niceville, and exactly 

 correspond on the upperside with Moore's figure (Lep. Ceylon, pi. 42, fig. 2) of T. 

 longinus ; on the underside the forewiugs, as Fabricius rightly says, are entu-ely of one 

 colour, without a trace of any markings, besides the underside agrees almost exactly 

 with the drawing of T. longinus, de Niceville. By comparing the Fabrician type with 

 an example of T. longinus, Auct., from Java, I find the yellow on the inner border of 



» Ent. Tidskr. 1897, p. 146. 



