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CATAGRAMMA. IV. 
CATAGRAMMA PATARA. 26, 27. 
Uprersive black. Anterior wing, with the cell, and an indistinct curved trans- 
verse band beyond the middle, purple; a small spot near the apex, light blue. 
Posterior wing, with a band of lunular spots (touching) near the outer margin, light 
blue. : 
Unpersipe. Anterior wing, from the base to beyond the middle, crimson, 
followed by a semicircular band of black marked on the costal margin by a spot of 
light blue; the costal margin at the base and the apex, ash-brown. Posterior wing 
ash-brown, crossed by two zigzag black lines, with, between them, five small black 
spots ; the costal margin near the base, and a part of the lower zigzag line, edged with 
crimson. 
Expan. 2in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of the Entomological Society. 
This species forms one of the same group as Humboldtii and Euriclea. 
CATAGRAMMA GABAZA. 28, 29. 
UprrrsipE black, glossed with purple. Anterior wing with a transverse central 
band of blue, commencing at a distance from the costal margin; a very small white 
spot near the apex. 
Unpersipz. Anterior wing, from the base to a little beyond the middle, crimson ; 
the rest black; the costal margin at the base, and two bands across the apex, dirty 
white. Posterior wing brown-white, with a line close to the outer margin ; a double 
circular black line open on the costal margin which is crimson from the end of the 
outer circle to the base of the wmg. ‘The imner circle incloses two unequal ovals. 
Expan. 155 in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Closely allied to C. Astala, but is of a much darker black above. Below, it has more crimson on 
the anterior wing ; more on the costal margin of the posterior wing ; has no crimson edge to the lower 
margin of the outer circle, as in Astala, and has the upper oval of quite a different form. 
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