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LE P II) OPT ERA. 
This beautiful fpecies is a native of New Zealand, where it was difcovered by Sir Jofeph Banks. 
Fibrkius defcribes the individual fpecimen in the Bankfian cabinet, from which our drawing was taken, 
the only one mod probably in this country, with the exception of another rea are for many years 
in the colleffion of the late Mr. Drury, and which in conference of his death has lately fallen into our 
own polfefllon. Two figures of this infeft accompany this defcript.on, one of which having the wings ex¬ 
panded difplays the appearance of the upper turface; the. other exhibiting the lower furface is placed in 
a refling pofition with the wings eie6t. ^ 
PAP I L I O YELLIDA. 
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SPECIFTC CHARACTER. 
Wings dentated fufcous, with a fulvous band behind, and two eyes on each wing. 
Papilio Vellida : alis dentatis: fufcis: fafcia poftica fulvaj ocellis duobus. 
Fab. Ent.Syst. T. 3. p 1. p. 91 . Sj>. 283.— 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 iflands 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 difk of the wings, appears finely gloffed with a 
micaceous blue, or green, while in others the brown is perfeftly free from any fuch appearance. 
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