The Blue Tiger (Tirumala limniace) is a butterfly found in India that belongs to the Crows and Tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the Brush-footed butterflies family. This butterfly shows gregarious migratory behaviour in southern India.

Blue tiger butterfly is distributed throughout Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, and Western China. The Blue Tiger is one of the butterflies found commonly throughout most of India, both in the hills and in the plains. Habitat of the butterfly is Tropical forest and has been observed in NEERI forests and gardens. These butterflies are frequent visitors to gardens and the Pink Cockscomb (Ageratum conyzoides) is its favorite flower.

During the dry season large numbers of these butterflies are often seen along with other Milkweed butterflies, roosting together in sheltered cool forests and plantations

Wingspan of blue tiger is 70-85mm. Upperside is black, with bluish-white semihyaline spots and streaks. Fore wing has interspace 1 two streaks, sometimes coalescent, with a spot beyond cell: a streak from base and an outwardly indented spot at its apex; a large oval spot at base of interspace 2, another at base of interspace 3, with a smaller spot beyond it towards termen; five obliquely placed preapical streaks, and somewhat irregular subterminal and terminal series of spots, the latter the smaller. Hind wing: interspaces 1b, 1a, and 1 with streaks from base, double in the latter two, cell with a forked broad streak, the lower branch with a hook, or spur-like slender loop, at base of 4 and 5 a broad elongate streak, and at base of 6 a quadrate spot; beyond these again a number of scattered unequal subterminal and terminal spots.

Underside has basal two-thirds of fore wing dusky black, the apex and hind wing olive-brown; the spots and streaks much as on the upperside, Antennae, head and thorax black, the latter two spotted and streaked with, white; abdomen dusky above, ochraceous spotted with white beneath. Male secondary sex-mark in form Larval host plants of blue tiger are Asclepiadaceae members.