LEPIDOPTERJ. 
This beautiful fpecies is a native of New Zealand, where it was difcovered by Sir Jofeph Banks. 
Fabricius defcribes the individual fpecimen in the Banklian cabinet, from which our drawing was taken j 
the only one moft probably in this country, with the exception of another treafured for many years 
in the colle6tion of the late Mr. Drury, and which in confequence of his death has lately fallen into our 
own polTeffion. Two figures of this infedl accompany this defcription, one of which having the wings ex- 
panded difplays the appearance of the upper furface j the other exhibiting the lower furface is placed in 
a retting pofition with the wings eredl. 
PAPILIO VELLIDA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings dentated fufcous, with a fulvous band behind, and two eyes on each wing. 
Papilio Vellida: alls dentatis : fufcis: fafcia poftica fulva; ocellis duobus. 
Fab. Ent. Syst. T.3. p i. p.g\. Sp. 2S3.— UNFIGURED. 
Papilio Vellida was difcovered in the firft inftance by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart, at the ifland of Amfter- 
dam. But fince that time it has been met with at fome other illands in the Pacific, as well as Southern 
Ocean. In New South Wales the fpecies appears to be rather common. 
We have obferved a confiderable variation in the colours of different individuals of this fpecies : in 
fome the brown, which is the prevailing colour in the dilk of the wings, appears finely glolfed with a 
micaceous blue, or green, while in others the brown is perfeftly free from any fuch appearance. 
