DEMOLEUS & NIREUS. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna commonly thickening towards the end 
into a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at reft) meeting upwards. (Flight 
diurnal.) 
Specific Character, &c. 
DEMOLEUS. Black Butterfly fpotted with yel¬ 
low, with the lower wings marked by a red- 
and-blue ocellated fpot. 
Seb. mus. 4. t. 37. f. 17. 18. &44- f. 6. 9. 
Kleemann ins. 1. t. 1. f. 2. 3. 
Cram. pap. 20. t. 231. f. a. b. 
NIREUS. Black Butterfly, with a lucid blue- 
green band acrofs the wings. 
Clerk, ic. t. 30. f. 1. 
Seb. mus. 4. t. 6. & 9. f. 21. 22. 
Drury ins. 2. t. 4. f. 1. 2. 
The two fpecies figured on the prefent plate may 
juftly be numbered among the moft beautiful of the 
exotic Butterflies. Both are natives of India and the 
Indian iflands. 
