NYMPRAL ED 2. 
CATAGRAMMA. VIII. 
CATAGRAMMA VITRINGA. 56, 57. 
Urrrrsipg. Black. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a band of green of 
uniform breadth, except near the costal margin, where it is sinuated on its inner side. 
Two lines of blue from the base. Posterior wing with a band of green from the anal 
angle to beyond the middle. 
Unpversipz. Anterior wing black; the base and the apex light yellow. A 
white spot near the costal margin beyond the middle, and below it two spots of light 
blue. A line of blue between these spots and the base. Posterior wing light yellow, 
crossed by two transverse black lines. One line before the middle nearly straight, the 
other curved, parallel to and near the outer margin. 
Expan. 23/5 in. Hab. Upper Amazon. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Nearly allied to C. Oppelii, but differs from it on the underside, in the much greater distance 
between the transverse black lines of the posterior wing. On the underside it is very like C. Triphena, 
but differs from it widely on the upperside. 
This is a very curious and most interesting group of Butterflies, and though, at first sight, they 
bear a very puzzling proximity to each other, they are, I believe, well-marked species. In some of those 
the most nearly allied, although the position of the transverse black lines on the underside of the 
posterior wing forms the chief distinction, it is always confirmed by some corresponding difference of the 
blue bands above. ‘There are three sections of the group, in each of which some of the characters of 
its neighbour are repeated. The first section contains Bonplandii, D’Orbignyi, Lebasii, and Yeba, 
clothed on the underside in almost uniform light grey. The second contains Oppelii, Triphena, and 
Vitringa, just described. The third has Humboldtii, Euriclea, and Vaninka, resembling the other two 
sections, but adorned with crimson underneath. 
CATAGRAMMA ZELPHANTA. 58, 59. 
Uprrrsipr. Black. Anterior wing crossed before the middle by a broad 
oblique band of crimson. The base light silvery-blue. The apex with a spot of 
white. Posterior wing with a large triangular spot of blue near the outer margin from 
the anal fold to beyond the middle of the wing. The outer margin dotted with 
white. 
Unpersipr. Anterior wing with the central crimson spot as above. The base 
yellow, clouded with brown. ‘The costal nervure black. The apex crossed by a band 
of yellow and a submarginal line of silvery-blue. Posterior wing rufous-yellow with 
a crimson spot on the costal margin near its base. A band which crosses the base is 
continued near the inner margin (where it is traversed by a line of blue) to beyond its 
middle, and two circular bands (united near the apex of the wing) black. The outer 
circle, which commences at the crimson spot near the base, is traversed by a line of 
blue from the inner margin (where it nearly touches the line which crosses the base) 
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