OATAGRAMMA CONDOMANUS. 



PLATE XX. Figs. 1 and 2. 



Pap. Astarte, Cramer, PI. 256, fig. C, D Nymph. Condo 



maiius, Godart. — Catagramma Condomanus, Boisd. 



This genus includes a pretty group of Nymphalidce, 

 which are mostly of small size, and marked with an- 

 nular lines of bright colours on the under side of the 

 inferior wings. They are pretty closely allied to Hip- 

 parchia,) but are natives of the new world. The wings 

 are ample, and all of them rounded on the posterior 

 edges. In the species referred to, the colour of the 

 surface is black, glossed with violet, the upper 

 wings with two wide transverse red bands, one near 

 the base, the other beyond the middle ; on the un- 

 der wings the interior band is continued nearly to 

 the hinder margin. The under side of the superior 

 wings resembles the surface, but the costa is yellow 

 at the base, and a narrow blue line runs along the 

 outer margin. The under wings are black beneath, 

 having a large oval yellow ring on the disk, enclos- 

 ing three pale blue points and a short yellow streak : 

 behind this ring there is a curved row of blue dots, 

 succeeded by a yellow line running parallel with the 

 hinder border, and not far from it : at the base of 



