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cocellulars instead of below it ; the lower discocellular of secondaries 

 more oblique and less sigmoidal ; the legs smoother. Type P. Pluto. 



2. Percnodaimon Pluto, Fereday, = JErebia merula, Hewitson. — 

 Although Mr. Fereday only describes this species as black, not men- 

 tioning the ocelli, his name will have to stand, since there is no other 

 black Mrehia in New Zealand.* 



3. Argyroflienga antipodum, Doubleday. — One of Mr. Enys's 

 specimens has only two ocelli on the upper surface of secondaries, 

 and no silvery streaks at the apex of the under surface of primaries. 



NTMPHALIN.^. 



4. Pyrameis Kershaivii, M'Coy. — One of the examples from 

 North Island. 



5. Pt/rameis Itea, Fabricius. 



6. Pyrameis Gonerilla, Fabricius. 



7. Diadema Nerina, Fabricius. — ^One male. 



LTC^NID^. 



8. Lyccena Phcebe, Murray, = ? i. Alsulus, var. Herr.-Sch. — 

 I believe L. Alsulus to be simply a brown female of the above, in 

 which case it will take priority. 



9. Lyc(Bna Oxleyi, Felder. 



10. Chrysophanus Boldenarum, White. — This species is said to 

 be common. 



11. Chrysophanus Salustius, Fabricius. — A variety occurs in 

 North Island, with the wings much brighter below. 



12. Chrysophanus Unysii, n. sp. — (^ . Above very like the female 

 of C. Salustius. Wings bright tawny ; veins black ; a rather broad 

 dark brown border round each wing ; an equally broad transverse 

 sigmoidal band of the same colour across each disc ; base densely and 

 finely irrorated with black scales ; primaries with a small round spot 

 in the cell, a similar spot below the origin of the first median branch, 

 and an oblong spot on the discocellulars, black : secondaries with a 

 transverse dark brown spot on the discocellulars ; several tawny spots 

 on the outer border near anal angle ; wings below much paler ; 

 primaries deep ochreous ; costal area dull sulphur-yellow ; outer 

 border brownish, paler towards apex, bordered within by black spots 

 towards external angle ; discal band of upper-side converted into a 

 row of blackish spots ; basal spots smaller and narrower than above ; 

 secondaries stramineous, becoming sordid sulphur-yellow towards the 



* In the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," vol. viii, pp. 302—304, pi. ix (May, 

 1876), Mr. Fereday re-describes and figures this insect as Oreina (?) Othello, stating that he changes 

 the name Pluto because it had previously been " appropriated" to another butterfly —A. G. B. 



