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curved brown stripe in front, brown with whitish or testaceous spots 

 towards the hind border. 



a. Mexico. From M. Hartweg's collection. 



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



c. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



The Mexican specimen differs much from the two others. The 

 fore wings are more ferruginous. The hind wings are orange, black 

 at the base, and with a black stripe, between which and the black 

 hind border there is a row of black -divided spots. 



23. Castnia Palatinus. 



Alee anticce ferrugineee, nitidce, puncto ocellari nigro ; posticee 

 nigrce, fascia media strigaque apice maculari albido-flavescen- 

 tibus. Alar. long. 42 lin. 



Papilio Palatinus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 98, pi. 159, f. B. C. 

 Castnia Palatinus, Latr. et God. Eric. Me'th. ix. 799. Dalm. Mo- 



nogr. Castn. Act. Holm. 1824,403, 11. G. R. Gray, Syn. Gen. 



Castn. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ii. 147, 24. 

 A this Palatinus, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 101, 1067. 



Surinam. Demerara. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates's collection. 



h, ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



24. Castnia subvaeia. 



Fusca, viridi-nitens ; abdomen apice fulvum ; alee anticce maculis 

 nonnullis magnis pallidioribus, guttisque duabus vel tribus 

 semihyalinis subapicalibus, subtus testacece fusco fasciatce ; alee 

 posticee maryinibus posticis fulvis fusco guttatis. 



Brown with slight green reflections. Tip of the abdomen 

 tawny. Fore wings with some large paler blotches, and with two 

 or three semihyaline dots near the tip ; under side testaceous, brown 

 at the base and at the tips, and with two irregular darker brown 

 bands in the disk. Hind wings tawny towards the hind borders, 

 near which there is a row of slightly connected brown dots. 



a. Bio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 





