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Show 1874.] OF THE SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS. 281 Genus JUNONIA, Hiibner. 42. J U N O N I A VILLIDA. Papilio villida, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 35. n. 366 (1787). * Papilio velleda, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 91. n. 283 (1793); Donovan, Ins. New Holland, pi. 25. fig. 3 (1805). Vanua Valava and Ovalau (Herrich-Schaffer) ; Navigators' Islands. B.M. Genus DIADEMA, Boisduval. 43. DIADEMA NERINA. $ . Papilio nerina, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 509. n. 277 (1775); Donovan, Ins. New Holl. pi. 27. fig. 1 (1805;. $ . Papilio iphigenia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 67. figs. D, E (1779). S. Diadema lassinassa, Montrouzier (nee lisianassa, Cramer), Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 406 (1856). Woodlark Island (Montrouzier) ; Australia. B.M. W e have this insect ( $ ) also in the collection made by Dr. Hors-field in Java; it scarcely differs at all from the Australasian type. 44. DIADEMA OTAHEIT^E. Diadema auge, Cram., var. otaheita, Felder, Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. xii. p. 492. n. 185(1862). Taiti (Felder). Evidently allied to the preceding, but considerably smaller. 45. DIADEMA PULCHRA, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 2.) $. Primaries above black-brown; the interno-median area to second median branch tawny ; three or four oblique central subcostal pale blue dashes ; an oblique quadrifid white fasciole beyond the cell; a trifid subapical spot and four discal internervular dots, all white; a double submarginal series of geminate whitish dots, not reaching the apex or anal angle; secondaries with base and outer margin broadly dark brown ; central area tawny orange, crossed by a broad angulated white belt; a double submarginal series of geminate subochraceous spots; nervures dusky, lilacine on the white band ; body olivaceous brown; head and prothorax spotted with whitish; wings below nearly as in D. nerina, but the white band of secondaries broader. Expanse 3 inches 2 lines. New Caledonia (Macgillivray). Type, B.M. Allied to D. manilia, Cramer, $ of D. lisianassa, and reminds one of Danais alcippus; it is a small species. 46. DIADEMA MONTROUZIERI, n. sp. 3 • Diadema lassinassa, Montrouzier (nee P. lisianassa, Cramer), Ann. Sc. Phys. Nat. Lyon, p. 408 (1856). 5 . Similar above to D. proserpina, Cramer *, excepting that it is larger, that the apical area of primaries is tawny ochraceous, that * A variety of D. nerina, Fabr. ( 2 of D. auge, Cramer). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1874, No. XIX. 19 |