NOM Ba ACT Dans: 
CATAGRAMMA. VII. 
CATAGRAMMA EXCELSIOR. 49, 50. 
Uprrrsipe dark blue, the margins black. Anterior wing crossed by a broad band of 
bright orange from the base to the middle (occupying the whole of the cell), from whence it pro- 
ceeds im a curve to near the anal angle. A small white spot near the apex. Posterior wing 
with a broad spot of lighter and more brilliant blue (changing to green as the light changes) 
near the outer margin. 
Unpersipe. Anterior wing with the orange band as above, the inner margin brown ; 
the rest of the wing black, with a narrow band of yellow across the apex, and a line of light 
blue near and parallel to the outer margin. Posterior wing blue-black, with a double circular 
band of yellow ; “the outer circle open at the costal margin and at the anal angle; the inner 
circle inclosing three spots of light blue divided by a line of yellow, one spot above the line, 
two below it. A band of light blue (divided by the nervures) between the circles. 
Expan. 243 im. _ Hab. Amazon. 
In the Collections of the British Museum and W. C. Hewitson. 
In a genus remarkable for the great beauty of every species this surpasses them all. I cannot but envy Mr. 
Bates the very great pleasure which he must have experienced in its capture. It vies with the splendid Callitheas 
named after himself and Mr. Mark, and resembles them as the figure 5 of C. Markii does a Catagramma. Indeed, 
I may say that that figure is much more characteristic of a Catagramma than that of C. Excelsior is. On the under- 
side this species is identical with C. Cynosura. 
CATAGRAMMA LEBASII. 51, 52. 
C. Lebasii, Guérin Ménéville, Icon. du Régue Animal, texte 485. 
UprrrsipE blue-black. Anterior wing with two lines of blue from the base outwards. 
Crossed at the middle by a broken band of blue or golden green (changing as the light changes) 
commencing at the costal margin by an oblong narrow spot and continued in an irregular band 
to near the anal angle ; a spot of the same colour near the apex. Posterior wing with three or 
four longitudinal lines of blue near the middle. The outer margin with a broad band of golden 
grey or green divided by the nervures into six conical spots. 
Unversipz. Anterior wing blue-black the imner margin brown ; the base light grey, fol- 
lowed first by a crimson spot (sometimes absent), next by two spots of light blue (sometimes 
united). A bifid spot of white and blue near the middle of the costal margin ; two blue spots 
between the median nervules. The apex and most of the outer margin light grey. Posterior 
wing light grey, crossed transversely by two distant black lines. One before the middle drohkex 
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