237 (1775) ; Sp. Ins., p. 82, n. 361 (1781) ; Brit. %?/!. ///., 

 p. 103, n. 317 (1793) ; Donovan, Ins. New Holland, pi. 25, 

 / 2 (1805). 



Vanessa Gonerilla, MHiitc, in Taylors New Zealand and 

 its inhabitants, pi. 2,f. 1 (1855). 



Papilio Geiierilla (sic), Fah., Mant. Ins., p. 44, n. 437 

 (1787). 



Eangitauharuru, New Zealand (Colenso). B.M. 



The type of this beautiful species is in the Banksian 

 cabinet in the British Museum ; it is common, and the 

 earliest butterfly at Otago (A. Bathgate). 



4. Pyrameis Itea. 



Bapilio N. G. Itea, Fab., Si/.^t. Ent, p. 498, n. 238 

 (1775) ; Sp. Ins., p. 82, n. 362 (1781) ; Mant. Ins., p. 45, 

 n. 438 (1787) ; Ent. Si/st., p. 103, n. 318 (1793) ; Donovan, 

 Ins. New Holland, pi. 26,/ 1 (1805) ; Vanessa Itea, White, 

 in Taylor's New Zealand and its inhabitants, 2)1. 2,/J>. 2, 2 

 (1855). 



New Zealand (Sinclai)-). B.M. 



The type is in the Banksian collection. 



5. Pykameis Cardui, (var. P. Kershavni). 



P>Tameis Cardui, Linn., Faun. Suec, p. 276, n. 1054 

 (1761). 



Cynthia Cardui, White, in Taylor's New Zealand and 2ts 

 inhabitants, pi. 2,f. 5 (1855). 



Cynthia Kershawii, M'Coy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. IV., 

 vol. 1, p. 76 (1868). 



New Zealand, Auckland {Bolton). B.M. 



P. Kershawii only differs from tlie typical P. Cardui in 

 its dark coloration on both surfaces and in the size of the 

 blue pupils in the ocelli of secondaries, but these are vari- 

 able characters and not sufficient to distinguish the two 

 forms ; indeed our examples are separated by locality only, 

 there being examples of P. Kershawii in the collection 

 precisely like typical P. Cardui and vice versa ; it is, how- 

 ever, interesting to keep this variety separate in a large 

 collection, as one of the links in the perfect series of forms 

 connecting P. Cardui and P. Atalanta : Mr. Fereday sup- 

 poses P. itea to be intermediate between P. gonerilla and 

 P. cardui ; if so, a great many links must have fallen out : 

 none of these species have the least claim to be referred to 

 the genus Vane»ia, the form of the secondaries alone ia 

 sufficient to suggest their distinctness from that group. 



Family 2. Lyc^nid^, Stephens. 

 III. Brit. Ent. Haust. I., p. 74 (1827). 



Sub-family 4. Lyc^mn.?:, Butler. 

 Cat. Fabric. Diurn. Lepid.,p. 158 (1869). 



Genus 4. Chkysophanus, Htibner. 



Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 72 (1816). 



6. Chrysophanus Salustius. Tab. 8,fs. 1 — 3. 

 Hesperia Pu Salustius, Fab., Ent. Syst. III., p. 310, 



n. 175 (1793) ; Lycsena Edna, Doubleday, Dieff. N. Zeal. 

 App., p. 283 (1843) ; Polyonmiatus Edna, Westimod & 

 Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., pi. 76,/. 6 (1852) ; White in 

 Taylor's New Zealand and its inhabitants, pi. 2, /■. .3, 4 

 (1855). 



New Zealand (Sinclair). B.il. 



7. CiiuYsoPHAXus Feueuayi. 



Chrysophanus Feredavi, Bates, Ent. Mo. Mag. IV.,;). 53 

 (1867). 



Kaiapoi Bush, Canterbury (Fereday) — Bate^. 



Differs from C. Salustius in having the secondaries 

 below clouded with brown ; the difference in the colour of 

 the palpi, mentioned by Mr. Bates, occurs also in some 

 examples of C. Salustius ; I doubt the distinctness of this 

 species, I have not however seen it. 



8. CUUY.SOPHANUS BOLDENARU.M. Tab. 8,/s. 8, 9. 



Lycffina Boldenarum White, Proc. Ent. Soc. Ser. 3, I., 

 p. 26 (1862). 



This species having been but imperfectly described, I 

 subjoin characters — 



c? Wings above brown, shot with glistening purple ; a 

 curved discal series of six orange spots bordered internally 

 with black on each wing ; also a second iU-defined sub- 

 marginal series, not reaching the apices ; outer margin 

 broadly dark brown ; primaries with a black spot towards 

 end of discoidal cell and a second at end of cell, between 

 and beyond these three or four ill-defined orange spots ; 

 secondaries with a black spot at end of cell, bordered 

 internally with iU-defined orange ; beyond it are also three 

 or four ill-defined orange spots ; body above blackish, crest 

 grey ; palpi and undersurface snow white ; 



Wings below altogether paler ; primaries pale tawny ; 

 the margins grey ; two spots within cell, one at the end 

 and a curved discal series, black, indistinctly edged with 

 white ; a submarginal ill-defined series of greyish ocelli ; 

 secondaries pale golden brown, a broad band across tlie 

 centre of the wings, two subbasal discoidal spots and a 

 submarginal series silver grey, white-edged : expanse of 

 wings, 10 lines. 



? Wings above without the purple shot, excepting a 

 submarginal macular line, between the discal and ante- 

 marginal series of orange spots ; i-emaining orange spots 

 larger, more elongated and distinct, otherwise as in the 

 male ; body as in the male : 



Wings below rather darker than in the male, otherwise 

 the same : expanse of wings, 1 inch, 1 line. 



New Zealand (Colenso). B.M. 



The figures represent the male, but the bands and spots 

 on the undersurface of secondaries have been made alto- 

 gether too dark. 



Mr. Fereday tliinks there may be two other species of 

 this genus, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. IV., p. 217 (1872). 



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