Butier.—On the Butterflies of New Zealand. 271 
Basal third of the wings above brown, external two-thirds blue-black ; 
primaries erossed by a nearly central angulated oblique scarlet belt which 
does not reach the inner margin; a trifid transverse white spot beyond the 
end of the cell, followed by a series of six spots, the fifth large, the first, 
second, and fifth white internally, otherwise all blue; fringes greyish; 
secondaries with the whole centre of the dise scarlet, crossed by four oval 
blue-pupilled black spots in pairs, the inner pair nearest to the outer 
margin; body brown ; abdomen pale at the sides. 
Primaries below brown at base, apex, and outer border, the red belt of 
the upper side becoming white towards costa and yellow upon the costa, 
sharply eut, excavated in front, angulated from the second median branch, 
its lower extremity continued internally but abruptly interrupted by a 
rounded blaek spot below the first median branch; a large black patch 
over the end of the cell enclosing a violet annular marking followed by a 
whitish arched belt; the succeeding white spots as above but no blue spots ; 
two indications of ocelli as in P. itea; a sub-marginal bluish-grey belt, 
bounded externally by a black streak from the lower radial to the external 
angle; secondaries olive-brown varied with darker brown, slaty-grey and 
whity-brown, and erossed by blackish lines indicating bands ; abdominal 
and external areas irrorated with white; a discal lunulated lilacine line, 
bisinuated between each two nervures; five diseal brown ocelli outlined 
with black, with reddish centres irrorated with lilacine, the two lowermost 
ones best defined; body below yellowish, the pectus clothed with dense 
woolly grey hair; expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 
Diadema, Boisduval. 
7. Diadema nerina. 
Female.— Papilio nerina, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 509, n. 277 (1775); Donovan, 
Ins. New Holland, pl. 27, fig. 1 (1805). 
Papilio iphigenia, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 1, pl. LXVIL, figs, D; E, (1779). 
Var. Papilio proserpina, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 3, pl. COXVIIL, figs. C, " (1782). 
Male?—Papilio auge, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 2, pl. CXC., figs. A, B, (1779 
Male.—Above black-brown, fringes white-varied; primaries ies a large 
oval white-centred shining blue patch across the discoidal and third median 
veins; an oblique trifid sub-apical white spot; secondaries with a large 
central white-centred shining blue patch ; body above blackish-brown, head 
and prothorax white-spotted ; wings below red-brown, basal area of primaries 
ferruginous ; basal half of eosta black spotted with white; four black-edged 
sub-costal white spots; an oblique sub-apical white band; external angle 
‘broadly dark brown; a discal series.of white spots and a double sub- 
marginal series of whitish spots ; fringe white-varied ; secondaries with the 
base of costa and anal area ferruginous ; a diffused central transverse white 
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