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subcylindric, slenderer than the tibia. Tibia equal in length to the femur, stout, not compressed, 

 more or less dilated beyond the middle, diminishing towards the apex. Tarsus considerably 

 shorter than the tibia, stout. First joint very stout, rather longer than the rest combined, 

 sometimes furnished below with a few spines, its apex armed with two stout spines; second, 

 third, and fourth joints progressively rather smaller, transverse, spiny below, all armed at the 

 apex with two stout spines ; fifth joint small, mucronate, the sides furnished with some stiff 

 seta?. 

 Middle and Posterior Legs short and rather stout. Femora considerably thickened about the 

 middle, those of the middle pair longer than the tibia?, those of the posterior pair equal to the 

 tibia? in length. Tibia? a little curved, those of the middle pair spiny interno-laterally from near 

 the base to the apex ; the spines in tolerably regular series, those of the posterior pair spring- 

 only near the apex ; spurs tolerably long and stout. Tarsi not quite so long as the tibia? ; all 

 the joints, except the fifth, spiny laterally and below, in four series ; the two inner series more 

 remote on the second, third, and fourth joints than on the first. First joint not quite so long- 

 as the rest combined; second nearly equal to the third and fourth combined; fifth joint not 

 quite so long as the second, produced above at the apex, spiny laterally. Claws curved, grooved 

 below. Paronychia with the outer lacinia fully as long as the claw, almost linear except at the 

 base, the apex a little pointed, the inner lacinia very short, nearly triangular. Pulvillus not 

 quite so long as the claws, the second joint broad. 

 Abdomen rather stout, scarcely more than two thirds the length of the inner margin of the posterior 

 wings. 



Larva and Pupa unknown. , 



Catagramma differs from Callicore in having the eyes smooth, the antenna? stouter, the thorax much more rohust, 

 ami the first subcostal nervulc of the anterior wings thrown off before the end of the cell. In this last character it 

 agrees with Perisania. 



Several of the species are insects of larger size than those of the two preceding genera, which they equal in beauty 

 and surpass in variety of colouring. All the species known to me have on the upper surface of the anterior wings red 

 or pale orange markings, which at once distinguish them from the two preceding genera. 



The ground colour of the upper surface of the wings in all the species is black. The anterior wings in Catagramma 

 Brome and C. Lyca have a transverse orange band; in C. Lyrophila and C. Hesperis this band is crimson. All these 

 species have parts of the posterior wings splendidly glossed with blue: below, they have the posterior wings black, 

 traversed by two yellow lines, in the same position as in the species of the preceding genus ; and between these lines a 

 series of blue or yellow dots. All the remaining species have a transverse band of some shade of red beyond the middle 

 of the anterior wings, or a large patch of the same colour at their base; and the posterior wings either more or less 

 glossed with brilliant blue, or marked at the base with a crimson vitta or patch. The lower surface of the posterior 

 wings is mostly yellowish, with black markings forming somewhat oval rings, in which are two black spots pupiled 

 with blue ; sometimes one or more of these spots is bi- or tri-pupillate. In one species the extension of the black 

 causes this colour to predominate over the yellow, but still the character of the type remains. In Catagramma Hydamis 

 the v are marked like those of Callicore Clymenus; and in Catagramma Sorana, aud an undescribed species allied to it, 

 they arc black, and have on the disc a yellowish mark resembling the figure 8, enclosing two black spots pupiled with 

 blue. This mark is followed by a very zigzag pale blue line. 



Some of the species of this genus arc found in the lower regions of Tropical America, but by far the greater 

 proportion seem to belong to the mountainous regions. 



