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median spot, aud an oblong discocellular spot, black ; secondaries witb. 

 a dark brown discocellular spot ; several fulvous spots on tbe external 

 border near the anal angle ; wings below much paler ; primaries deep 

 ochreous ; costal area dull sulphur-yellow ; outer border brownish, 

 paler towards apex, bordered within, towards the external angle, by black 

 spots; discal band replaced by a row of blackish spots; basal spots 

 smaller and narrower than above ; secondaries stramineous, changing 

 towards the base to sulphur-yellow ; outer border pale clay-brown ; an 

 -irregular narrow discal band, a sub-costal spot, the discocellular s, and a 

 spot on the interno-median area, all pale clay-brown ; body above olivaceous, 

 the prothorax slightly fulvous ; head blackish, with the margins of the eyes 

 and sides of the palpi white ; body below whitish ; expanse of wings 1 inch 

 3 lines. 



Female. — Considerably darker, the intervals between the bands reduced 

 to golden-orange spots, the bands and veins being deep chocolate-brown; 

 basal scaling more golden ; wings below brighter, the secondaries crossed 

 by a broad, sharply-elbowed reddish-brown band, which tapers to the 

 abdominal margin ; an ill-defined series of conical sub-marginal spots, of 

 the same colour, with pale lilacine centres ; body above much brighter than 

 in the male ; below tinted with rosy ; expanse of wings 1 inch 3i- lines. 



Male and Female, North Island. 



13. Chrijsophaaus fereclayi, PL XII, figs. 7, 8, 9. 

 Clirysophanus feredayi, Bates, Eut. Mo. Mag., IV., p. 53 (1867.) 



Extremely hke C. salustius above, but with the black spots of the male 

 and the bands of the female usually rather broader ; below with the outer 

 border of the primaries and the whole ground-colour of the secondaries 

 brown, the black spots rather smaller ; expanse of wings, 1 inch 4 lines. 



Family Papilionids, Leach. 

 Subfamily Piekin^, Swainson. 

 Catopsilia, Hilhner. 



14. Catopsilia catilla. 



Female.— Papilio catilla, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 3, pi. 229, figs. D, E, (1781). 

 Male and Famale. — GalUdryas catilla, Butler, Lep. Exot., p. 2-1, pi. IX, figs. 



7-10, (1869) ; Monogr. Oallid., p. 3, n. 3, pi. 1, figs. 7-10 (1873). 

 Male, — Papilio hilaria, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 4, pi. 339, figs. A, B, (1782). 

 Male. — Papilio titania, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. SuppL, p. 28 (1798). 

 Var. GalUdryas pldegeus, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 4, 3rd Ser., part 



3, p. 401 (1867). 

 Sub-sp., Female. — Papilio pomona, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., 3, p. 213, n. 665 (1792). 

 Male. — Above with basal area sulphur-yellow ; the external area white 

 and slightly thickened ; the apex, and sometimes two or three spots termi- 

 nating the nervures towards the apex, black-brown ; below whitish- sericeous, 



