258 RHOPALOCERA. 
a. Primaries crossed with a tawny or red band, base black or blue. 
a’. Spots of secondaries beneath arranged in a line. 
1. Catagramma atacama. 
Catagramma atacama, Hew. Ex. Butt. Catagramma, t. 1. f.1, 21; Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, 
p. 343°. 
Alis nigris, anticis fascia obliqua ultra cellulam fulva, anticarum basi et area interna posticarum distali virides- 
centi-cyaneis ; subtus anticis fere ut supra, costa ad basin, linea longitudinali in cellula et fascia trans- 
versa apicali flavis notatis, maculis quoque tribus cyaneis in apice ipso, posticis fasciis sex flavis transfas- 
ciatis, prima basali marginem internum attingente, quarta ad angulum analem maculis duabus cyaneis 
terminata, area nigra inter quintam et sextam ad angulum analem lunulis quibusdam cyaneis notata, 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten®); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion), Veraguas 
(Arcé).—Cotomsia }. 
Hewitson described this species from specimens said to have come from Quito, but 
all our South-American examples have been obtained in the more northern State of 
Colombia. Within our limits it is by no means an uncommon species in collections 
made in the vicinity of Chiriqui; and a single specimen was in Van Patten’s Costa- 
Rican series. . | 
The markings of this insect are very constant; but one individual from Colombia has 
the tawny band which lies in the same line as the two blue spots of the secondaries 
beneath broken up into a series of spots. In this respect it resembles C. faustina; but 
in that species all the spots in this band are blue instead of being tawny. 
2. Catagramma faustina. (Tab. XXV. figg. 7, 8.) | 
Catagramma faustina, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. iii. p.184'; Butl. & Druce, P. Z.8. 1874, p. 343”. 
C. atacame similis, sed subtus linea transversa posticarum quarta omnino macularum cyanearum composita 
 distinguenda. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten”); Panama, Lion Hill (If*Leannan'). 
C. faustina was described from a single specimen sent us by M‘Leannan from the 
Isthmus of Panama. ‘The only other example we have met with is that included by 
Messrs. Butler and Druce in their list of Van Patten’s Costa-Rican collection. 
As already stated, this species is closely allied to C. atacama, but may at once be 
distinguished by the row of blue spots which crosses the secondaries beneath. This 
in the allied species for the greater part of its length is replaced by a continuous tawny 
band, which, again, in rare instances is broken up into tawny spots. 
Our figure is taken from the Panama insect, the type of Mr. Bates’s description. 
b'. Spots of secondaries beneath not in a line, but enclosed in a single ring. 
3. Catagramma, lyca. 
Catagramma lyca, Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 28. f. 4; Hew. Ex. Butt. Catagramma, t. 5. 
f. 38, 39”. 
