144 LEPIDOPTERA. 



butterflies of moderate size, sometimes spotted with white, and 

 generally more or less adorned with rich purplish blue. 



Catonephele, Hiibn., is remarkable for the disparity of the sexes. 

 The males are black, with broad markings of the richest orange, 

 and the females are also black, but are marked with yellow bands 

 and spots arranged nearly as in the East Indian genus Neptis, or 

 in the allied South American genus Myscelia, Doubl., in which 

 latter they were formerly included, as it was not until their habits 

 had been carefully studied in their native countries that it was 

 supposed that there was any specific identity between such dis- 

 similar butterflies. 



The smallest of the true NympJialincB belong to the genus 

 Dynamine, Hiibn. Several are white, with the costa and hind 

 margin black, spotted with white ; the costa is often shaded with 

 bluish or greenish, and there is frequently a dark transverse stripe 

 near the base of the hind wings. On the under surface, the dark 

 portions of the wings are lined and blotched with reddish and 

 bluish grey. Some of these white species scarcely exceed an inch 

 in expanse ; but there is another group of rather larger species in 

 which the males are bluish, greenish, or brassy, with dark borders, 

 and sometimes spots; and the females are brown, spotted and 

 banded with white. On the under side of the hind wings are two 

 large black eyes, with blue pupils and yellow rings, placed on a 

 reddish band, which is edged with white on both sides. In 

 other species, the males are bluish or greenish, spotted with white, 

 and with black tips and borders, and the females are black and 

 white. The under side of the hind wings is silvery grey, with 

 reddish lines or stripes, but without eyes. These pretty little 

 butterflies are found flying about hedges, or at the edges of woods. 



The genera Callicore and Perisama, Hiibn., are velvety black 

 above, with more or less extended blue or green markings. On 

 the under surface the fore wings are broadly scarlet at the base ; 

 and the hind wings in Callicore are grey or brown, with two jjairs 

 of black spots (frequently united), each pair enclosed by an oval 

 black figure ; and both then enclosed by two more or less complete 

 black concentric circles. The English residents in Brazil call these 

 butterflies " Eighty-eights," from the peculiar markings on the 

 under surface of the hind wings. In Perisama the hind wings are 

 of different colours beneath, and are marked with two black lines, 

 between which runs a row of black dots. 



Catagramma, Boisd., is closely allied to the last two genera, but 



