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18. Tajuria donatana, n. sp., PI. XIV, Fig. 15, d*. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse: c?, 1"35 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both ivings deep purplish-black. 

 Forewing with the basal and lower discal areas rich deep iridescent 

 blue, the colour extending slightly into the discoidal cell from the base 

 of the first median nervule to the base of the wing. Hindwing with an 

 elongated discal patch of rich iridescent blue of a lighter and brighter 

 shade than in the forewing ; the abdominal margin anteriorly pale 

 fuscous and fringed with white, anal lobe white marked by a round black 

 spot, bearing a few metallic silvery scales ; cilia from the anal angle to 

 the second median nervule white, thence to the apex of the forewing 

 black. Underside, foreicing ri(;h chrome-yellow, unmarked, the inner 

 margin broadly pale fuscous. Hindiving rich chrome-yellow ; the anal 

 area sprinkled with black and white scales ; the anal lobe intensely 

 black, with an intensely black small round spot on the margin in the 

 first median interspace ; the black and white anal area bounded ante- 

 riorly by an irregular iridescent greenish silvery line, above which is an 

 irregular W-shaped white figure finely defined with black ; a fine black 

 anteciliary line from the anal angle to the discoidal nervule. Tails 

 black tipped with white, the outer rather the shorter. 



A smaller species than the " Myrina " orsolina of Hewitson,* from 

 Celebes and Macassar ; differing in the shape of the blue patch on the 

 upperside of the forewing, which in that species is deeply indented at the 

 base of the first median nervule ; also by the absence on the underside 

 of both wings of the very pale broken linear brown band described, but 

 not shown in the figure, as occurring in M. orsolina, and in other details. 



I have described T. donatana from a single example taken by Captain 

 C. T. Bingham in the Donat range, Upper Tenasserim, in April. 



Family PAPILIONID^. 

 Subfamily Papilionin^. 

 19. Papilio noblei, n. sp., PI. XIII, Fig. 2, d. 

 Habitat : Karen Hills, Burma. 

 Expanse : (5^ , 4 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside, &o/^/i m^l/s black. Foreiving with. 

 four longitudinal streaks of scattered ochreous scales in the discoidal 

 cell. Cilia black. Hindiving with a large cream-coloured tripartite sub- 

 apical patch from the discoidal nervule to the costal nervure much as in 



* 111. Diurn, Lep., p. 38, n. 39, pi. xvii, figs. 56, 58, male; 57, female (1865). 



