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Show 460 MR. L. DE NICEVILLE ON NEW OR [May 3, latter they are described as being nearly alike. The three black marginal spots from the anal lobe on the upperside of the hind wing are also absent in T. albiplaga in both sexes. A single pair of this very distinct species is in Mr. Otto Moller's collection. TAJURIA MELASTIGMA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 1, c?.) Hab. Sikkim, Nilgiris. Expanse. 3 1*5 inch. M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings cerulean blue \ Fore wing with the costal, the apical half of the wing, and the outer margin decreasingly to tbe anal angle black ; a large quadrate shining black " sexual mark " on the disk, bounded on two sides by the discocellular nervules and the first median nervule. Hind wing with the outer margin very narrowly black, widening at the apex ; the abdominal margin whitish ; the anal lobe and inner tail dull reddish, the outer tail black, both tails tipped with white. U N D E R SIDE : both wings dull pinkish. Fore wing with the inner margin somewhat broadly greyish ; a discal straight narrow deep Indian-red line, outwardly defined with whitish, from near the costa to the submedian nervure; an extremely obscure pale fascia near the margin. Hind wing with the discal line in continuation of that on the fore wing, the portion between the median nervules very irregular, from the third median nervule oblique to the abdominal margin; the anal lobe marked with a rust-red spot, crowned obscurely with orange ; a smaller very obscure spot on the first median interspace, between which the ground is obscurely sprinkled with white scales; two indistinct series of dark spots between the veins above the second median nervule on the margin; an anteciliary fine dark line. Cilia fuscous throughout. Body blue above, pale red below, whitish at the sides. T. melastigma has no secondary male sexual characters between the wings, and so far as I am aware the peculiar shining black quadrate patch on the disk of the fore wing on the upperside is unique amongst Indian Lycaenidae. Judging from Hewitson's figure alone it is closely allied to his Iolaus ister, the type of which is from " India," and is a female; T. melastigma may be the hitherto unknown opposite sex of that species. The type and only perfect specimen of T. melastigma is in the collection of Mr. Otto Moller. I have received a single male fore wing of this species from Mr. G. F. Hampson, collected in the Nilgiri Hills, South India. ZEPHYRUS PAVO, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 11, $ .) Hab. Bhutan. Expanse. 2 1*35 inch. F E M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings black. Fore wing with the costa somewhat widely, the apical third of the wing, and the outer 1 Of almost the exact shade of the common " Polyommatus" cleobis of Godart. |
