TAJ UR I A. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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T. cato Drc. (147 cl) resembles cleobis (147 c) above, but it has not the intense violet reflection of cuio. 
cleobis-^. Above all the under surface is different, not dust-coloured grey, but much darker, more earth-coloured 
brown. Anal lobe of hindwing on both sides light with a dark central spot. The species is remarkable by the 
black legs being speckled with a light yellow. From the Kina-Balu in Borneo. 
T. jalysus Fldr. (156 c) is larger, more robust, with broader wings than mantra which it resembles jalysus. 
otherwise (especially the form sapphirina). — From the figured typical form with an intense violet reflection 
above from North Celebes the form plateia Fruhst. (= plataia Fruhst.) (156 b), from Bua-Kraeng (South Celebes), plateia. 
is distinguished by the dark lustrous metallic blue upper surface. ,,Cell-end with an intense black longitudinal 
line.“ Hindwing as in cyru-s (156 a), veins of all the wings distinctly black. In the $ the' ground-colour is chiefly 
bluish-grey with a slight violet reflection. Under surface as in mantra , but more blackish, the blue maculae 
of the hindwing prominent. The form plateia presumably represents a transition from the mantra-form sap¬ 
phirina and typical jalysus. — jalysus is apparently very rare. 
T. discalis Fruhst. (156 c) is already allied to the following isaeus, but at once discernible by the large discalis. 
dark scent-spot of the <$ covering the lower cell-angle on the forewing above. Lombok. — According to those 
who regard the scent-spot as a criterium of the genus Camena, the species ought to be placed there, but Fruh- 
storfer himself emphasizes its close alliance with mantra. 
T. isaeus Hew. (156c) is one of the smallest species of the genus; the $ is light cobalt-blue with isaeus. 
a slightly lustrous upper surface, a black costal and distal margin, dull bone-coloured under surface, without 
distinct cell-end marks, but with a feeble dark postdiscal line; in the hindwing the discal area is traversed by 
dark nebulous stripes, and the anal region is black, with orange and bluish spots. — dominus Drc. (156 c) seems 
to be the normal J; almost exactly like cleobis (156 c) with which it is compared in the original description, but 
the apical black penetrates into the cell, and below it arcuately towards the base; isaeus w r as described from 
Sarawak, dominus from the Kina-Balu in Borneo. — relata Dist. (^ = buto Nic.), from Malacca, is beneath relata. 
more grey than bone-coloured white, and the submarginal transverse stripe is slightly curved, the convexity being 
distal. — pisatis Fruhst ., from Java, is still much smaller than the preceding forms, the under surface of the pisaiis. 
g dingy earth-brown. — amardus Fruhst. (156 d) differs from pisatis by a lighter blue upper surface in the amardus. 
d 1 and a lighter grey under surface; from Nias. — The forms of isaeus are distinguished from the similar cleobis 
by the submarginal line beneath being more remote from the margin. The isaeus , like most of the Tajuria, 
are rather rare in most of the districts of their range. 
T. cleobis Godt. (156 c). The differences of this form from the allied species have already been mentioned cleobis. 
above; besides, cleobis is mostly much larger than all the forms of isaeus. Beneath cleobis is light chocolate- 
brown with an almost straight submarginal line of the forewing which extends at a distance of more than 5 mm 
from the margin, whereas in the similar, but mostly smaller ister (155 b) it is hardly more than 3 mm distant 
from the margin. India, from the Himalaya to the Nilgiris, single. — Larva somewhat cochleiform, in the 
thoracal region thickened from the 3rd to 5th rings somewdiat thinner, the broadest at the 7th and 8th; dark 
violettish-brown, on the dorsum several large, angular, pale yellow spots. Pupa green, at the cremaster 
spun so fast that the body is generally erect. On Loranthus elasticus. presumably on its blossoms. - The larva 
is somewhat similar to that of Tajuria cippus. 
T. cleoboides Elw. ($ = tyro Nic.) (156 d) is a very small form, the of which exhibit the scent- cleoboides. 
spot in the forewing which otherwise distinguishes the Camena. The form from Burma and Malacca differs 
from the still somewhat smaller eplgenes Fruhst. (156 d) from Java in the steeper proximal border of the very epigenes. 
broad black marginal band on the forewing above. In the $ the black colour of the forewing is very much 
reduced and its border towards the base concave, w'hereas in the it is rather convex. — In tussis Drc. (156 d), tussis. 
however, it runs in both sexes concavely towards the base, though in the $ much more so than in the <$. 
Here the submarginal line of the dull chocolate brown under surface is distally bordered with whitish; Borneo. 
This latter form was discovered near Labuan by Waterstradt, and the type is presumably in the Berlin 
Museum (Coll. Staudinger). — The species seems to be rather rare, 
T. deudorix Hew. is somewdiat larger than isaeus, the under surface quite different, the $ earth-coloured deudorix. 
grey as in tussis (156 c); upper surface similar to that of isaeus (= dominus, 156 c). Beneath the transverse 
line before the marginal area is very feebly undulate, since it recedes somewhat at every vein. — In the quite 
similar lucrosa Fruhst. (156 f) this is not the case on the forewdng, only on the hindwing, for which reason it lucrosa. 
might be regarded as a separate species; it was discribed as a form of jalajala. — deudorix was hitherto only 
mentioned from Mindanao, w here the species seems to be rare. 
T. tura Nic. (156 d) is extraordinarily similar to the preceding species, but in the as large as the turn. 
largest $$ of deudorix. Easily recognizable by the distinct lilac reflection of the $ on the forewing and in the 
costal and marginal areas of the hindwing, as well as by the somewhat irregular proximal border of the marginal 
black. The species is described from Sumatra and is said to exist in Frtihstorfer’s collection in several specimens 
from Java, from where, however, Piepers and Snellen do not mention it. At any rate the species is very rare. 
