CATAGRAMMA. Ily 



C. rynjsura (Doubleday and Hewitson), a species quite distinct 

 from C. astarte. The latter has frequently been mistaken for 

 C. codomannus (Fabricius), the type of which (a male) is in the 

 Banksian collection in the British Museum, and is from Brazil. 

 It is flushed with rich purple, as in C. texa, Hewitson — a species 

 differing much from it in pattern -and the red at the base of 

 the hind-wings does not extend below the median nervure. The 

 inner-margin is damaged; but the specimen is otherwise 

 identical with C. miles, Bates, in which the yellow sub-marginal 

 line ceases before the anal angle, and the penultimate blue 

 spot throws a spur outwards. In addition, the upper blue 

 streak is separated, not by a short yellow dash, but by a nearly 

 continuous stripe. 



Of C. miles, Bates writes: "This species closely resembles 

 C. astarte in the colours of the under surface, the inner part of 

 the black band left between the two yellow circles touching the 

 costa, as in C. astarte. It entirely replaces C. astarte on the 

 Upper Amazon, and is an abundant insect, especially near 

 St. Paulo,* where every day in the showery season numbers 

 are seen even in the village, enlivening with their bright crimson 

 liveries the dull, muddy streets." 



Cramer described this species from Surinam, and I am not 

 quite certain that the specimens which stand in different 

 collections from various parts of South America under the 

 names of C. astarte and C. codomannus, and which vary con- 

 siderably among themselves, really belong to the former species. 

 They do not possess the two white dots on the upper side of 

 the fore-wings, and the pattern of the under side differs a little, 

 especially towards the anal angle, and the bands are yellow 

 instead of ochrcous. Of course these differences may be 

 due to incorrect drawing or colouring; but I have found that 



* This town, on the Upper Amazons, must not be confounded with the 

 province of the same name in South Brazil. 



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