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oeellated spots — one between the sub- . -_ , , _ 



costal nervules and the other between W-' ■ i^jp '^^hw \ / / 



the two lower median nervules ; some 



irregular and obscure fascite cross the 



cell of anterior wings, and there is an 



obscure waved submarginal line to 



both wings. Body and legs more or 



less concolorous witii wings. 



Female. Larger and paler in 

 hue than the male ; winga above 

 brown, anterior wings with a i^ale 

 violaceous subapical fascia, more 

 irregular in shape than that of the 

 male, and broken and traversed with 

 a waved brown fascia at the area of 

 the median nervules, a broken waved 

 pale violaceous submarginal fascia, 

 which above the lower discoidal ner- 



vule is practically obsolete and is principally represented by a greyish apieal spot ; posterior wii);;s witli a 

 submagiinal series of contiguous pale violaceous spots placed l)etweun the nervules, i)alest inwardly, and 

 outwardly shading off to margin, a dark oblique line crossing disk at end of cell. "Wings beneatli as in 

 male, but paler and more mottled and ornamented with darker markings. 



Exp. wings, (? , 98 millim. : 5 , 113 millim. 



H.\B. — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinst. — Calc. Mus.). 



This is a very rare species. A male specimen (see woodcut) collected at Penang by the 

 Rev. L. C. Biggs is the only specimen I possess, whilst the female specimen here ligured is 

 contained in the Calcutta Museum, and was captured by Kiinstler in Perak. 



5. Zeuxidea aurelius. (Tab. XXXVII. , tig. 1 J .) 



Pajnlio Aurelius, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. 168, A, B (1779 1 . 

 Morpho Aurelius, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 439, u. 1 (1823). 

 Zeu.vidia Aurelius, Hew. Ex. Butt. iv. Zfu.v. et MmoiKt, f. 1, 2 (1868). 



Male. Wings above very dark chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with a very large and curved 

 violaceous fascia occupying the largest portion of cell and extending to outer margin, where- it is bounded 

 by the apex and by the lower median nervule, a patch of greyish-white scales at apex, and the outer angle 

 also greyish ; posterior wings paler brown, excepting basal area, and containing a large violaceous patch 

 between the second median nervule and the submedian nervure, a spot of the same colour between the two 

 upper median nervules, and an indistinct violaceous patch at anal angle. Wings beneath dark creamy- 

 white ; anterior wings with a large fuscous patch almost bounded by the median nervure and the second 

 median nervule, and almost extending to outer angle, cell crossed by three irregular brownish fascise, 

 a short oblique fascia of the same colour passing through lower end of cell, followed by a very obscure pale 

 brownish discal fascia, a submarginal waved fascia and an obscure marginal line; posterioi- wings with 

 some dark greyish shadings, a few dark brownish streaks at base, two crossing cell, the outermost broadest 

 and inwardly greyish, a longer fascia passing through lower apex of cell and two oeellated spots— one 

 between the" subcostal nervules and the other between the two lower median nervules. Body above dark 

 chocolate-brown. 



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