NYMPHALIDiE. 

 CALLITHEA. 



CALLITIIEA BATESII. ? 1,4. 

 S C. Batesii, Hewitson. Trans. Entom. Soc. Vol. 1, N. S. PL XI. 



Upperside. Male black, glossed with purple. Both wings with the base orange. 

 Both with a submarginal band of green, wide at the apex of the anterior wing, very 

 narrow on the posterior wing. The fringe Muck. 



Underside glossy green or blue-green, the base orange as above, but extending 

 further, its margin irregular, not meeting where the wings meet. Anterior wing with a 

 row of four black spots (the first two minute) half way between the middle and the 

 cuter margin, the margin of the orange clouded with black below the middle. Pos- 

 terior wing with four rows of black spots parallel to each other and the outer margin. 



Female with the anterior wings more rounded at the apex, without the purple 

 gloss, with the band of green near the apex much wider. 



N.B. The lower disco-cellular nervule of the anterior wing of C. Batesii joins the 

 median nervure at the base of the second nervule. 



Expan. 2- 2 - - to 24-jj in- Hab. Amazon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



CALLITHEA MARKII. 2, 3, 5, G. 



Upperside. Male (-2). Brilliant purple or ultramarine blue. The fringe 

 white. Anterior wing with the base carmine, the outer margin black. An indistinct 

 linear spot of green near the apex. Posterior wing with the nervures at the base 

 orange, the inner margin (the fold) brown. 



Underside glossy green. Anterior wing with the base as above, but lighter, with 

 a line of three black spots equal in size between the middle and the outer margin 



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