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Show J 887.] LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 459 to have gone out of his way to emphasize the fact that his species is a female ; judging from his figure alone, I should have said that it was taken from a male, and that m y specimen (which is unquestionably a female) was of the opposite sex. The matter must remain in abeyance till some one will examine the sex of Hewitson's type. Described from a single example in the collection of Mr. Otto Moller. TAJURIA ALBIPLAGA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. figs. 1, 3; 2, $ .) Hab. Sikkim. Expanse. 3 1*5, 2 1"6 inch. M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings cerulean blue with hardly any gloss ; cilia grey throughout. Fore wing with the costa bounded posteriorly by the subcostal nervure, the apex broadly (including the anterior portion of the cell) and the outer margin decreasingly to the anal angle black. Hind wing with the costal margin and apex light fuscous, the two fine tails black, tipped with white, a fine anteciliary black line. U N D E R S I D E : both wings grey, of the same shade as in T.jehana, Moore1; a prominent narrow, straight, dark line on the discocellular nervules. Fore wing with a similar discal line not reaching the costa anteriorly, touching the submedian nervure posteriorly; beyond this line is a somewhat similar, but indistinct line. Hind wing with a discal line much as in the fore wing, but reaching the costa and recurved to the abdominal margin, the upper portion straight as far as the third median nervule, below this the line is formed of outwardly convex lunules ; beyond the discal line is an obsolete submarginal line as in the fore wing ; a small deep black round spot in the first median interspace, close to the margin and another on the small anal lobe, both outwardly margined with pale yellow; no secondary sexual characters.-FEMALE larger, both wings broader, the apex of the fore wing less acute. U P P E R - SIDE : both wings of a slightly darker shade of blue than in the male ; cilia white throughout. Fore wing with a large quadrate diffused white patch on the disk, its inner margin well defined by the discocellular nervules, and that portion of the median nervure between the bases of the first and second median nervules. U N D E R SIDE marked exactly as in the male. Near to Tajuria diaus, Hewitson2, from Sikkim, but the blue coloration of the upperside is much lighter ; the discal line on the underside of the fore wing in T. diaus is much straigbter, its edges more even, and it increases in width to the costa, which it quite reaches ; the colour of all the lines being somewhat rufous also in that species. In T. diaus female, which sex I have not seen, there is a submarginal band of brown spots on tbe upper-side of the hind wing. T. albiplaga is also allied to T.jehana*, Moore, but the sexes of the former differ considerably, while in the 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 529, pl. xlix. fig. 7. 2 Iolaus diceus, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lyccenidcs, p. 45. n. 17, pl. xx. figs. 27, 28, r?, 26, 9(1865). 3 Proc Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 529, pl. xlix. fig. 7. |