42 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The male has dark brown fore-wings obscurely spotted with 

 black. The hind-wings are creamy-white, brown at the base, 

 and with a short black band at the apex. The female is white, 

 with the base of the wings brown. The costa and hind-margin 

 of the fore-wings are rather broadly brown, and the hind-wings 

 have a black sub-marginal line, surmounted with seven con- 

 nected lunules. 



The following genus belonging to this section is sufficiently 

 remarkable to demand a detailed notice. 



GENUS CATAGRAMMINA. 



Catagramminci) Bates, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 411 

 (1868) ; Schatz & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 255 (1892). 



CATAGRAMMINA TAPAJA. 



Necyria tapaja^ Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (2), v. p. 108, 



pi. n, fig. 17 (1859). 

 Catagrammina tapaja^ pt. Bates, I.e. (1868). 



This species derives its generic name from the resemblance of 

 the female to the genus Catagramma^ Boisd. ; it expands rather 

 less than two inches in the male, and rather more in the female. 

 The male is black, with a bright red transverse band, varying 

 in width, on the fore-wing^, and sometimes also on the hind- 

 wings. The female, however, has the basal two-thirds of the 

 fore-wings red or orange, more narrowly towards the costa. There 

 is a black stripe on the sub-median nervure, and in the dark 

 apical region of the wing is an oblique red or orange-yellow stripe 

 followed by a sub-marginal row of white spots, which are con- 

 tinued across the hind-wings. In fact, the female much 

 resembles Catagramma sinamara, Hewitson, to which we have 

 alluded (vol. i. p. 117) as the probable female of C. astarte^ 

 Cramer. The resemblance of the male to a Catagramma is 

 much less striking. Very little is known of this rare and curious 

 mimicking Butterfly, but it is not unlikely that there may be 

 more than one species confounded under the name of C. 



