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Basal third of the wiugs above brown, external two-tliii^s blue-black ; 

 primaries crossed 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 disc scarlet, crossed by four oval 

 blue-pupilled black spots in pahs, 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 cut, excavated in front, angulated from the second median branch, 

 its k»wer extremity continued internally but abruptly interrupted by a 

 rounded black 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, siib-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 crossed by blackish liiies indicating bands ; abdominal 

 and external areas irrorated with white ; a discal lunulated lilacine line, 

 bisinuated between each two nervures ; five discal 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. — Fapilio nerina, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 509, n. 277 (1775) ; Donovan, 



Ins. New Holland, pi. 27, fig. 1 (1805). 

 Papilio iphigenia, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 1, pi. LXVII., figs. D, E, (1779). 

 Var. Papilio proserpina, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 3, pi. CCXVIIL, figs. C, D, (1782). 

 Male?— Paj5iZio aiige, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 2, pi. CXC, figs. A, B, (1779). 

 Male. — Above black-brown, fringes white-varied; primaries with 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 costa 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 



