430 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. [May 9, 
under wing-coverts are similarly marked, but the bars are much nar 
yower here. The primaries above are faintly marked with lighter 
bars on their inner webs. Below they are pearl-grey on the inner 
webs, variegated with white, and faintly barred with dark grey. The 
first primary is 2°5 inches shorter than the second, and 3°5 inches 
shorter than the fourth, which is longest, though very slightly ex- 
ceeding the fifth. The third is rather longer than the sixth. The 
first three primaries are distinctly emarginated on the inner web at 
about one-third of the total length of their exposed portions; the 
next succeeding two less distinctly so. The legs are well feathered, 
the feathers projecting above an inch below the heel behind, and in 
front covering the upper part of the tarsus for a quarter of an inch, 
The tarsus is covered in front with a row of ten or eleven broad plates, 
behind by fifteen or sixteen rather narrower plates, with the divisions 
almost obsolete. These rows nearly join on the inner side, leaving 
on the outer side a space occupied by three irregular rows of small 
oval plates. The tarsi and toes are bright orange ; the claws black. 
The only specimen obtained is no doubt quite adult: the sex is 
not marked. Probably the adults of both sexes would be alike, ex- 
cept in size. 
4. Description or S1x New Species or DiurNAL LEPIDOPTERA 
IN THE British Museum Coxxuection. By A. G. ButTter, 
British Museum. 
(Plate XXV.) 
1. Papinio vireatus. (Pl. XXV. fig. 1.) 
Upperside cream-colour, with a deeper tint at the base, hind 
margin, and anterior margin ; anterior wings with a broad, elongate, 
triangular black band at the outer margin, its pomt touching the 
anal angle, and divided in the centre by a narrow cream-coloured 
band running parallel to the outer margin; a short black band just 
beyond the cell, and a long band upon the cell, and tapering to near 
the anal angle ; two bands crossing the middle of the cell, the outer 
one bounded by the median nervure, the inner one by the interior 
margin; two black bands at the base of the wing, the inner one 
touching the body. Posterior wings tailed, with an irregular black 
spot enclosing a pale blue Junule and with a dull yellow margin in- 
clining to orange above, at the anal angle; a narrow black band 
crossing the wing at the end of the cell, slightly uncated at its outer 
extremity and tapering towards the anal angle, four blue-grey lunules 
surrounded with black along the lower edge of the outer margin ; a 
cream-coloured lunule surrounded with black on the outer margin 
between the subcostal nervules ; margin between the apex and first 
subcostal nervule black ; a large cloudy black spot above the supra- 
caudal lunules. Tail black. Body greyish black, with the caudal ex- 
tremity silver-grey ; a cream-coloured band on each side of the thorax, 
and a ring of the same colour round the eyes; antennz black. 
