APFEMtlX. 



ocellated spots — one between the sub- 

 costal nervules ana" the other between 

 the two lower median nervules ; some 

 irregular and obscure fascire cross the 

 cell of anterior wings, and there is an 

 ob e cure waved suhmarginal line to 

 both wings, Body and legs more or 

 less concolorous with wingB. 



Female. Larger and paler in 

 hne than the male; wiuga above 

 brown, anterior wings with a pale 

 violaceous subapical fascia, more 

 irregular in shape than that of the 

 male, and hroken and traversed with 

 a waved brown fascia at the area of 

 the median nervules, a broken waved 

 pale violaceous submarginal fascia, M«. te-L— Ztwxid&t douhU&aft, £ . 



which above the lower discoidal ner- 



vule is practically obsolete and is principally represented by a greyish apical spot; posterior wings with a 

 subtuagrinal series of contiguous pale violaceous spots placed between the nervules, palest inwardly, and 

 outwardly shading off to margin, a dark oblique line crossing disk at end of cell fl'iugs beneath as in 

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

 Exp, wings, 3 . 08 millhn. ; ? , llfl millim, 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Penang (Biggs — coll* Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinst. — Gale. Mus.)« 



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

 Rev. L, C. Biggs is the ouly specimen I possess, whilst the female specimen here figured is 

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



5, Zeuxidea aurelius. (Tab. XXXVIL, fig. 1 s ,) 



Pajnlfo AureUm, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. 1G8, A, B (1779). 

 Mnrpho Aureliu*, Godt, Enc, Metli, is, p. 439, n, 1 (18231. 

 Zeuridw Aurdim, Hew. Ex, Butt- iv. Zeux. et Mnwnn, L I, 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 j posterior wings paler brown, excepting basal area, and containing a large violaceous patch 

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

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

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

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

 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 ami an obscure marginal line; posterior wings witb 

 gome d:trk 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 ocellated spots— one 

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

 chocolate-brown. 



July 30, 1886. * Q 



