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with rosy outer scutis: the primaries with silver-centred rosy discocellular 
spot, and three or four obliquely-plaeed strioles between the median and 
diseoidal branches; secondaries with two connected silver-centred rosy spots 
at the end of the cell, and six to seven discal lunules forming an are round 
them; expanse of wings, 3 inches 1 line. 
Female.—Above typically bright sulphur-yellow, sometimes (and gene- 
rally in the Australian region) pale sulphur-yellow, almost white; the 
primaries with a broad dentated, sometimes interrupted, marginal border ; 
a more or less defined waved striolate discal band and discocellular spot, 
all blackish; secondaries usually with orange-tinted external border, the 
veins terminating in blackish dots; below golden-yellow, the outer border 
slightly deeper coloured, a rusty irregular patch (sometimes obsolete) 
terminating the cells of both wings and enclosing two connected silver- 
centred ocelloid spots; primaries with a rust-reddish discal interrupted 
angulated band; secondaries with three black-centred orange lunules on 
the median and interno-median interspaces; expanse of wings, 8 inches 2 
lines. 
Although this species ranges from Silhet to Queensland, but little is 
known of its habits. Captain Lang states that it frequents Cathartocarpus 
fistula. 
Doubtful Species. 
Subfamily Danae. 
Hamadryas, Boisduval. 
15. Hamadryas zoilus. 
Papilio zoilus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 480, n. 163 (1775). 
* Alis integerrimis, atris; anticis maculis tribus, porticis disco, albis; 
habitat in Nova Hollandiá."— Fabricius. 
The wings are black, becoming brown towards the base; the primaries 
have three sordid whitish spots, and the secondaries have the whole central 
area of the wings white. 
We have never seen an example of this species from New Zealand, but 
in Dieffenbach it is noted as belonging to the Lepidopterous fauna: as the 
species seems to frequent gloomy brushwood, it may have been overlooked 
by recent explorers. 
Arr. XXXVI.— Notes on the Metamorphosis and Development of one of our 
large Butterflies (Danais berenice), or a closely-allied Species. 
By W. Cotenso, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Hawke Bay Philosophical Institute, 13th August, 1877.} 
On the 25th January, 1875, Mr. Huntley, of Meeanee (a member of this 
society), sent me some insect larve, apparently of a butterfly, in a box. In 
