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ZEUZERA MINEA. 



PLATE VIII. Fig. 4. 



Phalaena mineus, Cramer, Pap. Eccot., vol. ii. pi. 131, fig. D. ; 

 Donovan's Insects of India, pi. 53, fig. 1 and 1 a — Zeuzera 

 viridicans, Eschscholtz in Kotzebues, Reise in die Zud-see, &c. 

 pi. 11, fig. 29. 



The first figure published of tins splendid Zeuzera 

 was that of Cramer, which indifferently represents 

 the male, which he states to have been received 

 from Batavia. Donovan subsequently gave highly 

 coloured figures of both male and female, brought 

 by Mr. Fichtel from Bengal, and Eschscholtz ap- 

 pears to have delineated a very indifferent specimen 

 in his voyage to the South Sea. The figure in the 

 adjoining plate is from a drawing by Mr. West wood 

 from a specimen in Mr. Hope's collection, and was 

 received by that gentleman from Bengal. 



The body is of a fine cyaneous blue, the wings 

 pale orange, marked with cyaneous; the anterior 

 having eight small patches on the costal margin, a 

 transverse bar near the base, a broad longitudinal 

 bar, several circular and oblong marks between the 

 costal and central marks, two spots on the posterior 

 margin and eight upon the apical margin. The 



