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second not extending beyond half the breadth from the fore border, 

 including a hyaline spot ; third extending along the apical margin ; 

 under side orange, with brown bands nearly similar to those above. 

 Hind wings with a broad oblique white band which is widened be- 

 hind, and with two rows of orange spots ; under side ferruginous 

 instead of brown, with the exception of a brown spot on each inner 

 an^le. Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From M. Becker's collection. 



b. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



c. Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



28. Castnia Boisduvalii. 



Fusca ; antenncB ferruginece ; abdomen plus minusve falvum ; alee 

 cyaneo viridique micantes ; anticee, fascia obliqua obscuriore 

 maculaque antica limpida, subtus aurantiacce, nigro varies, 

 apice fuscce ; postices aurantiacce, basi margineque postico 

 maculis interrupto nigris. 



Castnia Boisduvalii, MSS. 



Brown. Antennae ferruginous. Abdomen tawny on each side 

 and beneath, or wholly tawny. Wings with blue and green reflec- 

 tions, rather more angular than in those of the three preceding 

 species. Fore wings brown, darker at the base, and with a darker 

 oblique band which is widened in front and behind, or is interrupted 

 in the middle, and includes in front a small limpid spot ; under side 

 orange, brown at the tips, and with three or four black marks in the 

 disk. Hind wings orange, black at the base, and along the hind 

 border with a broad black band which includes an irregular partly 

 double row of orange spots ; under side wholly orange. Length of 

 the body 14 lines; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



b. Brazil. From M. Becker's collection. 



29. Castnia Amycus. 



Alee nigrce, nitidee ; anticee utrinque fascia punctoque albis ; pos- 

 ticce supra fasciis duabus, subtus pagina omni rubrce. Long, 

 alar. 24 lin. 



Papilio Amycus, Cram. Pap. JExot. iii. pi. 227, f. D. E. 

 Castnia Amycus, Latr. et God. Enc. Meth. ix. 798. Dalm. Monogr. 



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