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of Lyropterya^ Westwood, have more rounded wings still, with 

 whitish or greenish radiating markings or else a broad red band, 

 cut into stripes by the nervures and folds, on the hind-margins 

 of all the wdngs. There are also numerous red spots towards 

 the base, at least on the under surface of all the wrings, and, more 

 rarely, above as well. The genus Ca7'tea^ Kirby, includes one 

 or two Amazonian species, v/ith longer and narrower wings, 

 and represents a different class of colouring, which is not 

 unlike that found in various South American JSombyces, 

 belonging to the Lifhositdce, 8zc. The species of Cartea are 

 black, with a broad fulvous band running from the base, and 

 covering a considerable portion of each wing. The margins 

 and the apical half of the fore-wings are free, and the apex ot 

 the fore-wings is crossed by an oblique yellow stripe. Felder 

 originally called this genus Orestias in 1862, but as that name 

 had been used by Valenciennes for a genus of fishes in 1839, 

 it became necessary to change it, and I therefore called it 

 after my kind old chief, the late Dr. Alexander Carte, the 

 Curator of the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society. But Dr. 

 Staudinger goes out of his way to inform his readers that the 

 name is derived from Carteia, the classical name of an ancient 

 town in Spain ! 



To this sub-section also belongs the curious little genus 

 Syrmatia, Hiibner. The fore-wings do not expand much 

 more than an inch, and extend much beyond the hind-wings, 

 which are very much produced, and terminate in a long tail. 

 The wings are entirely black, except a large white spot, cut by 

 the nervures, in the middle of the fore-wings ; and sometimes 

 there is also a white stripe nearer the base, extending to both 



In the next sub-section, the first branch of the sub-costal 

 nervure of the fore-wings is emitted before the end of the cell, 



