4 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 



Castnia (Amauta) angustata Druce 



Castnia angustata Drucc, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xx. p. 505 (1907) (Ecuador). 



Messrs. Houlbert and Obeithiii- as usual refuse to accept Druce's name 

 because unaccompanied by a figure, though they were informed by Mr. Talbot 

 that Houlbert's Castnia oherthiiri was antedated ten years by angustata Druce. 

 The Tring Museum possesses 10 specimens as follows : 

 1 (J Rio Dagua, Columbia (W. Rosenberg) ; 2 (JJ Paramba, Ecuador, 

 3,500 ft., April 1897 (W. Rosenberg) ; 1 <?, 5 5? Paramba, Ecuador, January- 

 August 189S— 1899 (Flemming) ; 1 ? Zamora, Ecuador, 3—4,000 ft. (0. T. 

 Baron). 



Castnia (Eupalamides) schreibersi Mikan 



Castnia .schreibersi Mikan, Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis, pi. 18 (1820). 



The Tring Museum has 4 specimens of this species as follows : 

 1 (J ? ; 1 $ ? (ex coll. Felder) ; 2 $ Upper Amazons. 



Castnia (Eupalamides) actor Dalm. 



Castnia actor Dalman, Prodr. Monogr. Castniae, in Act. Holm. p. 398. 2. pi. v. {. 1 (1824) (Brazil). 



Messrs. Houlbert and Oberthiir in opposition to Boisduval consider actor 

 a distinct species from schreibersi ; I cannot express r.n opinion as I only have 

 one specimen, which agrees with Dalman's plate except that it lacks all blue 

 on liind\\ing. 



1 (J South Brazil. 



Castnia (Eupalamides) zerynthia Gray 



Castnia zerynthia G. R. Gray, Trans. Enlum. Soc. Land. 1838. p. 144. 



Of this conspicuous species there are at Tring 7 specimens as follows : 



1 ^ Esperitu Santo, Brazil (ex coll. Fruhstorfer) ; 1 J South Brazil ; 1 $ 1 ; 



2 ?? Rio Janeiro, Vienna Academy Expedition, 1867 (ex coll. Felder) ; 2 ?? 1 



but probably same source (ex coll. Felder). 



Castnia (Corybantes) pylades (Stoll) 



Papilio pylades Stoll, in Cramer, Pap. Exot. vol. iv. part xxxiii. p. 200. pi. 387. ff. A.B. (1782) 

 (West Indies). 



The Tring Museum possesses a single specimen of this fine and large species : 

 1 $ Cayenne (coll. Becker, ex coll. Felder). 



Castnia (Corybantes) mathani Oberth. 



Castnia mculuini Oberthiir, Etud. Entom. fasc. vi. pi. 4. f. 2 (1881) (Teffe). 



The <J in the Tring Museum differs from the <J in the Paris Museum {Etvd. 

 Lepidop. Comp. fasc. xv. p. 183. fig. 63 ter.) by the entire absence of the 2 

 subapical pale spots on forewing, the spot above vein 5 alone being present. 



1 (J Maripa, Caura River, Venezuela, July 1901 (S. M. Klages) ; 1 ?, Rio 

 Demerara, British Guiana. 



