NYMPHALID^. 



MORPHIN.^. 



ZEUXIDIA. 287 



274. Zenxldia douWodall, Westwood, 



Z. daublediiii, Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 329, n. 2, Hott, pi. lii, fig. i (i85i),yiv/»ii/<. 



Habitat : India (?) 



Expanse : 4-25 to 475 inches. 



Description : " The British Museum also contains both sexes of an allied species [to 

 Z. luxen'i*] from India, the MALE of which is distinguished by its more acuminated /ore- 

 zving, destitute of the pale spot near the tip ; the broad lilac bar of Z. luxerii is replaced by 

 a much narrower and more curved blue bar ; the hindwing has the tail much less acuminated ; 

 the lilac patch of this wing is replaced by a very broad blue fascia, which extends to the 

 anal angle ; the middle of the discoidal cell has an elongate-ovate smooth spot desti- 

 tute of hairs (which may, however, have been abraded). [Underside] the dark brown 

 streak across both wings is curved towards the tip at its junction with the costa, and the 



second and third median nervules " {ButUr, 1. c in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) " Female : Upperside, botk. 

 un'n^s pale brownish. J^omui'ni^ hecoming chocolate-brown beyond the apex of the cell, and there possessing the 

 foltewing pale stramineous markings -.—A waved fascia commencing on the costal margin a little beyond the cell, 

 and terminating above the first median nervule, where it is outwardly followed by a small spot ; beneath are six 

 spots placed three above and three beneath the second median nervule ; and near the apex there is also an indi- 

 cation of a pale spot. Hindwing with the outer marginal area more or less ochraceous, on which is a sub- 

 marginal waved and broken dark chocolate fascia, becoming in some specimens obsolete towards the anal 

 angle ; on the inner side of th's ochraceous area is an ill-defined darker apical patch or suffusion, on which are 

 three pale ochraceous spots, two above and one beneath the discoidal nervule ; there is also a similar but much 

 fainter spot beneath the first median nervule (in one Malaccan specimen these spots are nearly obsolete) ; 

 anal caudate prolongation marked with white on each side. Underside generally as in the male, but the 

 smaller ocellated spot on the hindwing in the male is absent, and the whitish sufiTiision more distinct. Con- 

 siderable variation in depth of colouration is observable both above and beneath amongst male specimens.' 

 (Distant, 1. c.) 



* Zeuxidia luxerii, Hubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett. (1816-1824) ; id., Westwood, Cab. Or. Ent., p. 40, 

 pi. xix, fig. 5 (1848), nenration 0/ fore^ving Habitat: Java. Expansu : 3-1 inches. Description: la 

 the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoplera (p. 329) Professor Westwood records the fjilowing note ; "A male specimen 

 of the type of this genus, Z. luxerii from Java, in the British Museum has the fofcwing marked with a very 

 broad lilac bar, extending in a somewhat curved direction from the middle of the costa to the anal angle ; the 

 outer angle of the ////m'«'/«^ marked with a broad patch of lilac, and the middle of the discoidal cell with an 

 elongate-oval patch of brown hairs ; the tail of the hindwing is also considerably acuminate. The underside 

 is purplish-brown, with dark clouds, and with the dark streak across both n<iug» slightly bent towards the base 

 of the forewing, at its junction with the costa, and the ocellus on the disc of the hindwing next the costa is 

 very much smaller than the one towards the anal angle ; the extremity of the forewing is also marked with a 

 small pale oval patch Dr. Boisduval possesses the female of this species, the wings of which on the uppbr- 

 siDB are brown, darker in the middle of the forewing, beyond which is an obliciue bluish-white fascia, obh- 

 terated towards the anal angle, where are three obscure fulvous spots, the hind one occupying the anal angle 

 the hindwing is brown, with an internally subdentate dull fulvous margin. On the UNUBRSIDE it agrees with 

 the male, but is more uniform in its colours." {iresiwood, 1. c.) 



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