152 [December, 



Mtbina Symiba, sp. n. 



Upper-side brown, tinted with purple, the outer margin dark brown : posterior 

 wing with the anal angle dark brown, with two tails, a long one in continuation of 

 the first median branch and a short one inside of it. 



Under-side rufous-orange : posterior wing with a black spot crowned with 

 silvery-blue at the base of each tail. 



Exp., 1 Jg inch. 



Hob. : Darjeeling. 



Hespeeia Cephala, sp. n. 



Upper-side dark brown, the fringe brown and white alternately : anterior wing 

 with three transparent white spots and an opaque spot near the inner margin ; one 

 at the middle bifid, one at the apex trifid, and one below it : posterior wing with 

 two transparent spots near the middle. 



Under-side : anterior wing as above, except that the costal margin from the 

 base to the transparent spot, and the outer margin from the apex to the middle, are 

 yellow : posterior wing yellow, with a black spot near the base, a third white spot 

 adjoining the transparent white spots, which are bordered below with rufous-brown : 

 the outer margin rufous-brown. 



Exp., 1^ inch. 



Snl). : Darjeeling. 



Hespeeia ceeata, sp. n. 



Upper-side dark brown : anterior wing with four transparent white spots ; one 

 in the cell sinuated on both sides, two below this between the branches of the median 

 nervure, and one near the apex bifid : posterior wing with a central scries of four 

 and five indistinct white spots. 



Under-side as above, except that both wings have a sub-marginal series of palo 

 spots ; that the posterior wing has a white spot near the base, and a transverse 

 central series of six distinct wliite spots. 



Exp., lyt_ inch. 



ITab. : Darjeeling. 

 Oatlands, Weybridge : October, 1876. 



LIST OF THE BUTTEEFLIES NOW KNOWN TO INHABIT NEW 

 ZEALAND, WITH DESCEIPTIONS OF A NEW GENUS, AND A 

 NEW SPECIES, IN THE COLLECTION OF JOHN D. ENYS, ESQ. 



BY ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., &c. 



NTMPHALID^. 



1. Danais Archippus, Fabricius. — Both sexes. 



SATYBIW^. 

 Peec>'odaimon, n. gen. 



Allied to Erehia, but in general pattern more like Leptoneura ; 

 the antennae more distinctly clavate ; the palpi shorter and broader ; 

 the- lower radial of primaries emitted above the angle of the dis- 



