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wings ; the female is larger, and is brown, with a white stripe 

 in the cell of the fore-wings, white spots on the fore-wings 

 and white lines on the hind-wings, arranged in a similar way 

 to that seen in so many Eastern Butterflies of the Limenitis 

 group, especially in the genera Neptis and Athyma. 



The genus Catomphele^ Hiibner, includes the largest and 

 handsomest Tropical American species of this group, and those 

 in which the sexes are most dissimilar. The males are black 

 in the first section, with a broad orange band across both wings, 

 which is sometimes interrupted near the tip of the fore-wings, or 

 replaced by two large orange spots. The females are black, 

 with yellow markings, arranged as in Neptis or Athyma> or are 

 black, banded with yellow on the fore-wings, and with either a 

 large orange blotch, with black markings, on the hind-wings, or 

 with some bluish sub-marginal lines. The second section is 

 black, with an oblique greenish-blue band on the fore-wings, 

 and a sub-marginal band on the hind-wings, or the hind-wings 

 in the male are orange at the base, or banded with orange ; 

 the wings being green beneath in both sexes. The species of 

 Catonephek measure three inches across the wings ; and the 

 fore-wings, which are nearly entire in the males, are produced 

 at the tip in the females, with the hind-margin concave. Bates 

 writes : " They are forest Butterflies, the males being seen 

 sporting in the gleams of sunlight which penetrate the dense 

 shades, and the females wandering among the lower trees. I 

 bred one species of this genus, C. acontiiis^ of Linnaeus. The 

 larva is light green, with steel-blue head, and i-3 armed with 

 branched spines, two of which on the head are of great length 

 and verticillate ; the pupa is light green, varied with pink, and 

 has the back of the thorax deeply excavated, and irregular in 

 outline." 



The male of Catonephele obrina (Linn.) is a black, blue- 

 green, and orange Butterfly, with a green under surface. It 



