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TAJURIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
tarpina. to a band. Beneath the brown band of the hindwing is narrow and remote from the margin. — tarpina 
Hew. denotes the form from the Andamans. Here the $ altogether lacks the subanal bluish-white band, 
even the traces of it that were yet in South Indian macanitcr, beneath the brown band of the hindwing 
palavandra. is broad and extends close to the margin. palavandra Stgr., from Palawan, is very similar to the Sikkim- 
specimens of the form indra, but the dark margin of the hindwing is narrower, so that it only represents a 
black limbal line which at the veins sends short black rays into the blue. Beneath the first brown distal band 
is narrower and equably broad, also separated by a white band from the brown margin which is hued with 
whitish. On the hindwing the brown transverse band before the margin is narrower and therefore the latter 
broader white than in indra or typical jalindra. —- Finally also a form from Sintang in South-West Borneo 
mingaica. w as described: mingawa Fruhst. (155 g as mingama) distinguished from typical (Javanese) jalindra by the 
scarcely half as broad black margin of the. hindwing above. Beneath considerably darker, the basal a'eas of 
both wings not so purely white, but powdered with a bluish grey. The postdiscal transverse band is more blackish- 
grey; hind wing with a reduced white anal margin. Separated from burbona Hew. from Sumatra by narrower 
and darker grey longitudinal bands of both wings. Taken in January. — jalindra is in some districts, e. g. in 
the Andamans, very rare, in other places often rather common; in the habits, flight, food etc. it is somewhat 
similar to the Zephyrus. The larva is uni-coloured green, its shape similar to that of T. longinus. on Loranthus 
elastica, particularly on the blossoms. Pupa with keeled ridges across the abdomen, in some places with a 
greenish or pink reflection, thoracal dorsum marked whitish, so that on being seen from above a face-like exterior 
is produced, somewhat similar to the so-called ,,monkey-face“ in carnivorous species of Lycaenidae ( Spalgis, 
Feniseca etc.). 
platen i. T. plateni Smpr. (155 g) is very similar to the preceding species and is very closely allied to it, just 
like the following mariaba. At once discernible by the brown under surface being intersected with whitish 
embedments. The $ is above deep though dull blue, the $ quite sepia-brown without any trace of the submarginal 
spots in the hindwing. Philippines; rare. 
mariaba. T. mariaba Hew. is almost exactly like jalindra , but on account of the androconial spot it has been 
regarded as Camena ( Pratapa ). But as this <§ mark has proved to be labile and not even separating the species, 
we have no reason to separate mariaba from jalindra. above deep lustrous dark blue, the black margin being 
at the apex 3 mm broad, but towards the tornus uniformly narrower; hindwing almost quite black, only the 
third of the wing before the centre of the margin dark blue, under surface almost exactly as in degenerata (155 g), 
but the band of the forewing is divided into 2 narrower stripes not reaching to the hind-margin. — On Hewitson’s 
figure of mariaba the brown bands beneath are not dark brown as in our figure of degenerata , but light red-brown; 
Semper, however, states that Hewitson’s figure is in this respect incorrect. Mindanao. 
maculata. T. maculata Hew. (156 b) is at once recognizable by the white under surface being covered with 
thick black dots. Forewing above in the disc white, with a black margin which is broader in the (typical) rainy- 
albipicta. season form, narrower in the somewhat smaller dry season form (= albipicta Fruhst.). In Sikkim and Assam; it is 
said to be generally rare, but occasionally it was also taken in numbers. Druce obtained it from Borneo, but 
he does not state that such specimens are different. Nevertheless Fruhstorfer denominates the Borneo- 
specimens as nigella, but neither says in what way they differ from continental specimens. 
illurgis. T. illurgis Hew. (156 a). Above quite similar to maculata, but the white discal area of the forewing 
is much smaller and narrower, and the hindwing above is darker blue. Beneath instead of the dots scattered 
on the entirely white ground-colour, the usual Theclinae- marking, i. e. dark cell-end streaks and a postdiscal 
transverse stripe of small comma-spots. — In file $ the whole disc of the forewing above is white, so that it 
Ulunj'wides. resembles Lycaenopsis albocaeruleusMr. (15 2f). Sikkim; Assam; rare. — illurgioides Nic. above entirely resembles 
illurgis and it has also a similar under surface, but the thick black cell-end streaks are replaced by quite fine, 
longer, straighter streaks. Himalaya: Naini-Valley; District of Darjeeling; perhaps a separate species. 
mantra. T. mantra Fldr. This widely distributed species is above very similar to a T. cippus, but it has a 
quite dark brown under surface with orange embedments in the anal part of the hindwing. In the typical form 
flying in Burma, Malacca and Sumatra, this orange is confined to the region before the base of the small tail: 
cyrus. — in Borneo-specimens, cyrus Drc. (156 a) the under surface is somewhat lighter brown and the anal orange 
is continued towards the costal margin, sometimes to the apex. According to Druce, both forms fly in Borneo, 
mesambria. the type on the Kina Balu and near Labuan. very common. rnesambria Fruhst. (156 b) is somewhat smaller 
than cyrus, lighter and more lustrous blue, the apical black somewhat reduced behind the lower cell-angle, 
maroncia. the subanal orange of the hindwing beneath reduced in contrast with the Borneo-form. Java. — maroneia 
Fruhst. (156b) is the form from Nias; the apical black recedes in the <$ still further behind the lower cell-angle; 
sapphirina. costa narrower black than in the other races. —- sapphirina Bob., from Celebes and Bangkai; the black anal 
dot of the hindwing above, which in the preceding ones is merely a plain black dot, is in the $ distally metallic 
green, proximally bordered with yellow; colour beneath light grey with a darker cell-end spot of the forewing. 
According to de Niceville very rare. 
