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ZEUZERA MINEA.
PLATE VIII. Fig. 4.
The first figure published of this 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 appears 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. Westwood 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
