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and ringed with pale yellow ; a brown submarginal and marginal 

 line. Expanse, 1"5 in. 



Habitat.— Ruigra, W. Ecuador, 4000 ft. (February, 1913). 

 Three S <S ■ 



One (J from Balzapamba taken by E. Haensch. 



A very distinct species, perhaps most like D. tithia, Hubn., 

 in the pattern of the upper side, but the ground-colour only 

 faintly tinged with green, the hind wings more oval, and the 

 underside of the secondaries totally different. 



Catagramma maimuna var. kayei, subsp. nov. 



Male. — Smaller than typical viaimuna, the hind wings above 

 with a few scattered red scales, but no trace of the dark blue spot. 



Female. — The large interno-basal patch of the fore wings is 

 light orange-yellow, not red, and the trifid subapical band is clear 

 pale yellow, much broader than in the male, and sharply defined ; 

 the hind wings are slightly dusted with yellow at the base, and have 

 faint traces of some pale blue scales near the anal angle. Underside 

 as in maimuna except for the different colour of the basal area of 

 fore wings. 



Habitat. — Trinidad. One 2 received from a local collector ; 

 one (? in the collection of J. J. Joicey, Esq. 



Typical C. viaimuna, Hew., with red fore wings, occurs on 

 the Upper Amazon, and M. Oberthiir has recently described 

 a form from French Guiana in which the fore wings are yellow 

 in the male. The Trinidad race, therefore, occupies an inter- 

 mediate position in having the fore wings red in the male and 

 yellow in the female, but the absence of any trace of the blue 

 spot on the hind wings is characteristic. The female of Kayei 

 very closely resembles the same sex of C. astarte var. antillena, 

 Kaye, from the sauie island. 



Catagrainina quirina, sp. nov. 



Male. — Allied to C. maimuna, Hew., and C. texa, Hew., but 

 smaller, the fore wings shorter ; the carmine basal blotch of the fore 

 wings smaller than in C. maimuna, and with its lower edge excised, 

 the middle of the inner margin being black to slightly above the sub- 

 median vein, so that the red blotch assumes a very characteristic 

 crescent-shaped form unlike that of any allied species. The short 

 subapical band is orange-red. Hind wings with a broad, carmine, 

 central streak as in C. texa, but only very faint traces of a blue gloss. 

 A small pale blue spot at anal angle. 



Underside : Fore wings as above, except that the subapical band 

 is clear pale yellow, and that there are three small blue spots beyond 

 it in the apex. Hind wings as in C. maimuna. Expanse, 1'75 in. 



Habitat. — Espiritu Santo, Brazil. One S • 

 On the upper surface this species has a curious resemblance 

 to the pattern of Agrias dandina, Godt. It is quite distinct 



