ri4 Lloyd's natural historv. 



wings ; the female is larger, and is brown, with a white stripe 

 in the cell of the fore-wings, white spots on the fore-wings 

 and white lines on the hind-wings, arranged in a similar way 

 to that seen in so many Eastern Butterflies of the Limeiiitis 

 group, especially in the genera Nepiis and Athyina. 



The genus Catonephele, Hiibner, includes the largest and 

 handsomest Tropical American species of this group, and those 

 in which the sexes are most dissimilar. The males are black 

 in the first section, with a broad orange band across both wings, 

 which is sometimes interrupted near the tip of the fore-wings, or 

 replaced by two large orange spots. The females are black, 

 with yellow markings, arranged as in Neptis or Athyma, or are 

 black, banded with yellow on the fore-wings, and with either a 

 large orange blotch, with black markings, on the hind-wings, or 

 with some bluish sub-marginal lines. The second section is 

 black, with an oblique greenish-blue band on the fore-wings, 

 and a sub-marginal band on the hind-wings, or the hind-wings 

 in the male are orange at the base, or banded with orange ; 

 the wings being green beneath in both sexes. The species of 

 Catonepliek measure three inches across the wings ; and the 

 fore-wings, which are nearly entire in the males, are produced 

 at the tip in the females, with the hind-margin concave. Bates 

 writes : " They are forest Butterflies, the males being seen 

 sporting in the gleams of sunlight which penetrate the dense 

 shades, and the females wandering among the lower trees. I 

 bred one species of this genus, C. aconlius, of Linnaeus. The 

 larva is light green, with steel-blue head, and is armed with 

 branched spines, two of which on the head are of great length 

 and verticillate ; the pupa is light green, varied with pink, and 

 has the back of the thorax deeply excavated, and irregular in 

 outline." 



The male of Catonepliek obrina (Linn.) is a black, blue- 

 green, and orange Butterfly, with a green under surface. It 



