GENUS CASTNIA AND SOME ALLIED GROUPS. 185 



ist das Weiss uberwiegend ausgebreitet ; unten dem letzteren sehr ahnlich (veilleicht 

 nur dessen $ ?)." Lat. 88 mm. 

 Sab. Brasilia. In Mus. Kaden olim. 

 Castnia albofasciata, Scbaufuss, Nunq. Otios. p. 10. 



[Obs. The three following species form the genus QSBSTES of Boisduval. See 

 supra, pp. 166, 167.] 



53. Castnia chremes. C. alis anticis apice acutis, fuscis aut brunneo-fuscis, basi parum 

 pallidioribus, fascia obliqua pallidiore e medio costae ad medium disci extensa inde 

 dilatata, parte basali versus medium marginis postici extensa, parte externa ad 

 angulum posticum extensa, fascia altera abbreviata subrecta pallida inter priorem et 

 apicem, strigaque valde indistincta undulata prope marginem posticum : alis pos- 

 ticis maris nigris purpureo lsete nitidis, punctis duobus (vel 1) costalibus, margine 

 ad angulum externum punctisque nonnullis submarginalibus lsete aurantiaco-rufis ; 

 fceminae rufo-aurantiacis, fasciis duabus maculisque marginalibus nigris : alis anticis 

 subtus pone medium fascia obliqua recta nigra in utroque sexu. Expans. alar. 

 antic, d unc. 2^-3|-, ? unc. 3-3^. 



Papilio chremes, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. 47 § ; Jones, Icones, iii. pi. 72. f. 2; Walker, List Lep. Het. 



B. M. i. p. 31 (Castnia chremes) ; Boisduval, H. n. Lep. Het. p. 536 (Ceretes chremes) . 

 Corybantes nicon, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Scbmett. ii. Versic. 1. f. 1, 4 ; Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. L. ii 



p. 148. 

 Castnia thalaira, Godart, Enc. Metb. ix. 800 ( ? ). 

 Castnia Fabricii, Swainson, teste Bdv. op. cit. p. 539. 

 Papilio thdis, Drury, HI. iii. pi. 16. f. 4 (not of Walker) . 



Foem. var. major (exp. alar, antic, unc. 3f). " Ferrugineo-fusca, aurato viridique micans ; 

 pectus et abdomen aurato-ochracea ; alse anticae fasciis tribus abbreviatis fuscis ; 

 posticse late ochraceae, subpurpurascentes, postice atrae fasciis duabus arcuatis 

 ochraceis, lma submaculari, 2da maculari." 

 Castnia morphoides, Wlk. List Lep. Heter. B. M. pi. 31. f. 43, = C. nicon, Hub. Exot. Scbmett. 



Length of wings 44 lines. " Nearly allied to O. icarus; but the markings of the fore 

 wings are different." 



Brazil. In Mus. Brit. 

 Foem. var. minor, (exp. alar, antic, unc. 2-2J). 

 Castnia thdis, Boisduval, op. cit. p. 537. 



Sab. Brasilia, Minas Geraes, Rio Janeiro, between Sapezal and Conceicao (Burchell, 

 30 October, 1827). " Umbroso sylvae densse, volatu et coloribus j?halence," Burchell, 

 MS. In Mus. Britann., Hopeiano Oxoniae, Boisduval. 



From the great diversity of the sexes of this and the following species, and the variable- 

 ness in the intensity of their markings, there has been great confusion in their nomen- 

 clature. 



The- description of C. chremes (female) given by Fabricius is scarcely sufficient to 

 distinguish it from the smaller species, although his words " fasciis duabus " would imply 

 simple and not irregular stripes, and his description of the fore wings, " subtus fere con- 



