-8 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Castnia huehneri, Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ii. p. 146, no. 



19 (1838); Boisduval, Lepid. Heter. i. p. 516 (1875); 



Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. (2) i. p. 182, 



no. 45 (1S77). 

 This species, which is a native of Brazil, is one of the smallest 

 of the genus, scarcely measuring as much as two inches across 

 the wings. The fore-wings are reddish-brown, with two more 

 or less continuous oblique white bands, or rows of spots, and 

 the hind-wings are brown at the base and inner-margin, reddish 

 towards the costa, but on the outer half of the wing black, 

 crossed by a row of seven bluish-white spots ; beyond this is a 

 sub-marginal row of fulvous spots. 



In addition, I may mention one or two more interesting 

 species of Castnia. C dccdahis (Cram.), found in Guiana, is a 

 large species, measuring from six to eight inches across the wings, 

 which are blackish-brown, with a strong purplish reflection; 

 the fore-wings have one or two oblique white stripes running 

 from the costa, and there are two sub-marginal rows of white 

 spots on the hind-wings, and one on the fore-wings. Castnia 

 licus (Drury) is one of the commonest species throughout South 

 and Central America ; it measures from three to four inches 

 in expanse. The fore-wings are brown, with a white stripe 

 running from the middle of the costa towards the anal angle ; 

 between this and the tip, an irregular row of white spots runs 

 from the costa. On the hind-wings a broader white band runs 

 from the costa beyond the middle to the anal angle, and there 

 is a more or less complete row of rather large spots close to 

 the hind margin. Other species, again, have long and com- 

 paratively slender bodies, and long brown wings, with tawny 

 and yellow markings, very similar to various species of Lycorea, 



