NYMPHALIDjE. 

 ZEUXIDIA. 



ZEUXTDIA AURELIUS. 1, 2. 



Papilio Aurelius. Cramer, Plate 16S, A. B. 



Upperside. ]\Iale, with the anterior wing from the inner margin to beyond !he 

 middle dark blue-brown : the outer half of the wing (except the apex, which is brown) 

 pale lilac-blue. Posterior wing with the base and inner margin to the middle dark 

 brown, followed to the anal angle by slate blue : the apical half pale brown : the anal 

 angle marked by two minute black spots bordered outwardly with white. 



Underside, grey, clouded with darker colours. Anterior wing crossed in and 

 outside the cell by four rufous bands, and beyond the middle by a broad band of 

 rufous-grey, marked near the apex by a white spot : a submarginal band of the same 

 colour : the inner margin broadly dark brown, with a polished surface where the wings 

 meet. Posterior wing crossed near the base (as on the upper wing) by four rufous 

 bands, the outer band extending to the anal angle : marked beyond the middle by 

 two eye-like spots of grey-green irrorated with brown, bordered first with paler colour 

 and outside of this with black : two submarginal rufous bands. 



Exp. 4^§ inch. Hab. Borneo. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



Cramer's figure is, I believe (though a very bad one), intended for the female of this species. 



