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VII. Descriptions of neio species of Australian Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera. By W. H. Miskin. 



[Read 2nd August, 187G.] 



The following notes, which I beg to lay before the Ento- 

 mological Society, are descriptive of some insects recently 

 added to my collection, that will, I believe, prove new to 

 science : — 



Family PAPILIONID^E, Leach. 



Sub-family PAPiLiONiNiE, Swainson. 



Genus Papilio, Linn. 



Papilio Egipius, n. sp. 



Male. — IJpPERSiDE : black. Primaries : with a few 

 short dashes of white, bordering on the costa near apex. 

 Secondaries : with a broad sulphurish band embracing 

 point of discal cell, on which side the edge of band is 

 straight, and extending outwardly to within a short distance 

 of outer margin, on which side it is crenulated between 

 the nervules, touching anterior margin but not extending 

 abdominally beyond third median branch ; immediately 

 above anal angle a single red lunule ; outer margin of 

 both wings crenated in white. 



Underside: deep black. Primaries : with apical dashes 

 almost. obsolete. Secondaries : with a very small red spot 

 at apical angle, same at anal angle surmounted by largish 

 lunule of same colour; a large red lunule between second 

 and third medians, a very small and imperfect one between 

 first and second, and one barely perceptible between dis- 

 coidal and first median, all near the margin. Antennas, 

 head, thorax, and abdomen, all black above and below; 

 the white specks between head and thorax A^ery indistinct. 



Female. — Upperside. Primaries : with the whole of 

 the basal region, the hinder and outer margins, and costa, 

 aU black; the veins widely black, and the spaces between 

 with wide bands of black, excepting those between the 

 second and third medians, and third median and sub- 

 median, Avliich are quite white; within the cell are also 



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