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Ccratinin Lyrasic, Fabr. pp. Typp. 



Male. — Fore wings, with the basal third, dark orange-tawny; beyond 

 this, a broad yellow band, obliquely traversing the disc, and narrowing 

 towards the inner angle, which, however, it does not reach; a large 

 rounded black spot occupies the middle of the cell, half being super- 

 imposed upon either color; the costa is black throughout its entire 

 length ; the outer half of the wing black, with three very small white 

 submarginal spots; three indistinct brownish streaks between these 

 and the yellow band. 



lliud wings, with the basal half, dark orange-tawny; the posterior 

 portion black, this covering an area contained between a nearly straight 

 line, drawn from the middle of the costa to a point ou the anal margin, 

 opposite half the length of the abdomen, and the outer margin. 



Underneath the primaries differ only in having the submarginal 

 white spots increased to the number of seven. 



The secondaries diifer from the upper side in having a row of sub- 

 marginal spots to the same number as the primaries, and also in the 

 presence of a large oval black spot above the cell, concealing a thick 

 oval corneous plate, and which is contained within a sudden expansion 

 and re-approximation of the costal and subcostal vein, along which runs 

 a narrow black line from the base to the black margin. This plate on 

 the upper surface is depressed below the level and filled with closely 

 appresscd scales of peculiar form, which are covered by the overlying 

 sexual tuft of hairs. Expanse 1.81 inches. 



Hah. — Los Angelos, Cal'a. (In my Collection.) 



Guiana; South America. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



var. panamenftrs, Bates. 



" 9 . Wings opake; fore wing above with the basal third orange- 

 tawny, which color is prolonged a short distance along the costal and 

 hind margins, the costal edge being black, and the centre of the cell 

 ornamented with a large rounded black spot; this is followed by a 

 broad oblique yellow belt, commencing at the subcostal nervure, and 

 narrowing to its termination near the hind angle. Apical portion of 

 the wing beyond the cell black, crossed in the middle by a row of three 

 widely distant yellow spots. Beneath, the same, except that there is 

 a row of seven submarginal white spots. 



Hind wings above with the basal half orange-tawny, the outer half 

 black, the black portion contracted near the apex, which has a row of 

 three minute whitish spots. Beneath, the same, except that there is a 

 yellow spot at the root of the wing, a black spot at the end of the cell, 



