Female.  Wings  above  very  pale  violaceous-blue ;  anterior  wings  with  the  costal  and  outer  margins
(broadest  at  apex)  dark  fuscous ;  posterior  wings  with  the  basal  third  clothed  with  fine  long  greyish  hairs,
and  with  the  costal  margin  broadly  dark  fuscous,  a  submarginal  row  of  fuscous  spots  {sometimes  obsolete
towards  ahdnminal  margin,  as  in  the  specimen  fiil^fred),  and  a  marginal  row  of  larger  fuscous  spots  {sometimes
fused  and  amahjamated  towards  apex  into  a  marginal  fascia),  apex  of  abdominal  margin  fuscous,  the  spot  at
anal  angle  containing  some  scattered  bluish  scales,  and  more  or  less  distinctly  inwardly  margined  with
ochraceous.     Wings  beneath  as  in  male.
Exp.  wings,  3  and  2  ,  35  to  38  millim.
Hab. — Continental  India;  "  N.  India,"  sic.  (Horsf.  &  Moore). — Ceylon  (Thwaites — coll.  Dist.).^
Burma;  Moulmein  (Brit.  Mus.). — Malay  Peninsula;  Malacca  (Pinwill — Brit.  Mus.). — Java  (coll.  Horsf.).
The  larva  and  pupa  of  this  species,  as  observed  in  Java,  have  been  figured  by  Horsfield,*
who  thus  describes  the  first: — "The  larva  is  considerably  distended  anteriorly,  excavated  at
the  sides,  contracted  behind  and  transversely  swelled  at  the  segments."  It  feeds  "  on  a  species
of  Lorantkus,  which  grows  parasitically  in  great  abundance  on  the  mango  and  other  fruit  trees
surrounding  the  villages  of  the  natives."  Dr.  Horsfield  also  remarks,  "  In  the  imago  state  the
peculiarity  chiefly  exhibits  itself  in  the  antenna,  which  are  abruptly  terminated  by  a  short
point."  I  am  unaware  whether  this  may  be  a  peculiarity  confined  to  Javau  specimens,  but
have  certainly  been  unable  to  see  it  in  Ceylonese  examples,  at  least  as  prominently  as  figured
by  Horsfield.
2.  Tajuria  mantra,  f     (Tab.  XXL,  fig.  11  5  .)

PseiiJul i/ciena  mantra,  Felder,  Wieu.  Ent.  Mou.   iv.   p.  396,  n.  9  (1860).
