TAJURIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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This species was, since at first only were known, taken to be the other sex of ister (155 b). $ above magni¬ 
ficently lustrous dark brown, coloured like cleobis (156 c). Margin of forewing and apical half black; in the 
disc a large quadrangular scent-spot. Distal margin of hindwing very narrow black, hind-margin whitish; 
anal lobe red-centred. Under surface flesh-coloured, transverse bands Indian red. — Larva very similar to 
that of deva (155 b c), but the anal end terminates in 2 points. Colouring somew hat more reddish than in deva, 
with 2 red lateral lines; on Loranthus. — Pupa similar to that of cleobis Godt. (155 c). — This species was brought 
into a genus Ops Nic. to which also other forms such as ogyges and oeta were added, which seem to be allied 
with Creusa culta; these species published in Indian periodicals cannot be dealt with here, as these periodicals 
were not obtainable at the time when the Lycaenidae were compiled and illustrated (1914). 
T. jehana Mr. being very closely allied to the preceding ones seems to occur more in the Indian plains jehana. 
(Bombay, Lucknor, Orissa, Mhow, Poona etc.). It resembles cippus, but it is smaller; in both wings in both 
sexes the costal halves above are black, beneath blue; in the hindwing from the anal lobe 3 black marginal 
spots. Beneath both wings are dull creamy white, the forewing with a delicate, indistinct, black submarginal 
line. In the hinchving the marginal line is more distinct and more zigzag-shaped; a distinct black anal and subanal 
spot, each of which is proximally bordered with yellow, the space between being powdered with black. 
T. gigantea Dist. (155 f). This gigantic form with tails longer than one centimeter may be compared gigantea. 
with the largest American Theda, such as marsyas and gigantea , for it attains an expanse of more than 5 cm. 
Distant, on F. Moore's suggestion, founded the genus Purlisa on this species. But it is a large form of Tajuria 
which exhibits above its usual colouring - lustrous blue with a black apical half of the forewing; beneath the 
species is earth-brown. Its patria is the Peninsula of Malacca, where the species is said to be extremely rare. — 
bomeana Fruhst. (155 f) is the form found in Borneo; above duller blue, the apical black of the forewing broader, bomeana. 
the black at the apex of the hindwing, how-ever. narrower. Beneath it lacks the slight bluish hue in tjie anal 
part of the hindwing. Likewise rare. 
T. mandarina Hew. (155 f) is much smaller than gigantea, but still much larger than the forms of mandarina. 
cippus. Above of the usual blue and black colouring of the Tajuria , but beneath at once recognizable by the 
purely yellow wings with broad and bright red-brown margins. Sikkim, Bhutan, not common; in the Khasia 
Hills in Assam in low districts not rare. — In a form from Borneo: splendida Fruhst. (155 f, g) the blue colour splendida. 
in the submedian area of the forewing above does not extend so far to the margin, and on the hindwing the 
black spot before the base of the upper small tail is smaller. 
T. cepheis Nic. is very similar to mandarina, but the $ exhibits above but very little blue in the cepheis. 
basal part of the forewing below the cell, the black colour being so much increased. Beneath the wings are 
darker, more chrome-coloured, and the margin is sepia-brown, not red-brown; the white colour before the 
base of the tail has also almost disappeared. — cepheis was discovered by Ward near Cachar in India, where 
at the same time the preceding species mandarina flew, so that it cannot be regarded as the geographical 
representative of this species. — There exists, however, another form belonging hereto and being quite unknow n 
to me: abnormis Moult., the relation to the preceding one. for which the genus Charana Nic. was established, abnormis. 
is not clear. 
T. jalindra Hsf. (= thymbraeus Hbn.) (155 g). This species is widely distributed over the Indian jalindra. 
region; the is extremely bright lustrous blue, with a narrow black marginal band hardly widened at the 
apex of the forewing, the $ above sepia-brown with a light blue band before the margin of the hindwing. Beneath 
white with a broad dark brown marginal band. The typical form flies in Java, where the species occurs in the 
east and w r est and is not rare in some places. — gamtara Fruhst., from Borneo, already exhibits a transition gamtara. 
to the Bengal form indra; in the $ the band of the hindwing above before the margin is narrow er than in 
Javanese specimens, but broader than in the continental forms. (Moreover, also in Javanese specimens the 
band of the hindwing of the $ is much lighter blue than in our figure and not so lustrous.) ■— indra Mr. indra. 
(= nedymond Godt. nec Cr.) flies in Sikkim and Assam, where it is common; beside the broader band on the 
$ hindwdng above it differs from jalindra also in a purer white under surface; the discal brown transverse band 
is narrower; in the hindwdng the subanal spot beneath is much more feebly margined with red. In Sikkim 
the species is said to be less common, and Hampson very rarely found it in the Nilgiris; in Ceylon it seems to 
be quite absent. — macanita Fruhst. (155 g) is smaller than indra, and the $ has instead of the w hitish macanita. 
band of the hindwing only traces of small, spot-like areas; beneath the brown marginal band of the hindwing 
only extends from the apex to The centre of the margin, not to the base of the tail *); from South India. 
— burbona Hew. is quite similar to macanita, but larger; the $ has an expanse of 45 mm and only shows 2 small burbona. 
white spots before the anal portion of the hindwing. Sumatra, probably also in the opposite part of Malacca. 
— degenerata Fruhst. (155 g). from Nias, has in the $ above 3 white submarginal spots which are already joined degenerata. 
*) In the original description there is an ambiguity: ,,macanita $ differs from assam- $ in the broader white submarginal 
band“. We must certainly add to this: ,,of the latter“, because the band is distinct just in assam- 2. The $ figured here 
(without this band) was sent in by Fruhstorfer himself, and therefore acknowledged by him to be typical. Moreover, this 
band varies very much in the same or neighbouring district. 
