NYMPHALIDH—CATAGRAMMA. 
UnperrsivE black. Anterior wing with the crimson spot as above, a band of yellow 
across the apex, followed by a line of blue. Posterior wing with a band across the base, 
and a triangular band in the centre (its smaller end touching the costal margin, and 
enclosing three spots of blue) yellow, followed by a band of eight spots of blue, (the 
second from the anal angle at right angles with the rest) and a band of yellow parallel 
to the outer margin. 
Expan. 1°, in. Hab. Guatemala. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
This very beautiful species scarcely differs from C. Astarte on the underside of the posterior wing. 
CATAGRAMMA PERISTERA. 15, 16, 17. 
Uprrrsipe. Male black. Anterior wing with a large, irregular spot of crimson from 
the middle of the inner margin to, and slightly above, the median nervure. Posterior 
wing with a large, central, pear-shaped spot of the same colour. The crimson spots 
appearing lilac in a certain light. 
Unpersipz. Anterior wing with a spot at the base, and a band across the apex, 
yellow. The basal half crimson, with a lunular black spot at the end of the cell ; the 
rest black, with a line of blue near the costal margin and the apex. Posterior wing 
yellow-ochre with two bands which cross the base and run parallel to the inner margin 
uniting near the anal angle ; two central spots (the upper one round, and marked with a 
spot of blue, the lower one oval, and marked with two); the outer margin and a band 
parallel to it and uniting with it at the anal angle, all black. The last-mentioned band 
is traversed by a line of blue, and marked by a spot of the same colour where it is joined 
to the upper central black spot. 
The female differs from the male above, in having the whole basal half of the anterior 
wing crimson, and a spot of white near the apex; on the underside the marginal and 
submarginal bands do not unite at the anal angle. 
Expan. $ 1% in. ¢ 1%. Hab. Amazon and Bolivia. 
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders. 
N.B.—Catagramma Parima, Hewitson, is a variety of ©. Hesperis of Guérin-Ménéville. All the 
specimens I have seen, have seven spots of silvery-white on the central black on the underside of the 
posterior wing ; M. Guérin-Ménéyville states that his Hesperis has but five. 
