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of the light, is in emtnens very feebly developed and, when looking at the animal laterally, not visible at 
all. The red colouring on the basal area of the under surface of the hindwings is very much reduced, but it 
occupies the whole discocellular and outside the cellule there are a little spot at the median and 1 stripe 
at the subcostal greyish-green; the black spots of the hindwings are increased in size and especially the 
spots forming a submarginal band are considerably broader than in optima. 
C. freyja spec. nov. (99 e misprinted as freyia) from Peru (Chanchamayo) resembles optima as regards 
the shape of its wings, but the distal margin of forewings appears still more distally bent. The verdigris 
margins are much broader, more sharply confined and do not change into the blue-shining colouring of the 
wing-centre. The red basal colouring of the under surface is similar as in the following fass/i, but still less, so 
that only a little more than 14 of the discocellular is occupied by it; it is bordered in black; the basal red 
dusting is much less than in the affined species; the black band margining the red area in optima is, in freyja, 
broken up into small, partly minute dots, and the two distal rows likewise consist but of small black spots 
and the spots of the middle row are also smaller; on the forewings there are 4 very little and uniform 
large subapical spots (dots). 
C. fassli spec. nov. (99d) from the Colonia Florencia on the Rio Putumayo (frontier between Co- 
lombia and Ecuador) resembles above optima a great deal, but has more pointy forewings and by far not so 
magnificent blue gloss as optima. On the under surface there are in the apex of the forewings not 4, but only 3 
and smaller black spots, the hindwings have more golden splendour, the black spots are smaller and the red 
colouring on the basal part which, according to O. STAUDINGER, occupies in optima at least the discocellular, 
extends in fassli only to the anterior half of the discocellular and is all around, partly broad, bordered in black; 
furthermore the red colouring which is, withal, very much darkened by interspersed black scales, occurs in a 
little spot at the costal margin, 2 little stripes at the inner margin of the hindwings and in a basal spot on 
the forewings; all these spots are, like the spot in the discocellular of the hindwings, (partly broad) bor- 
dered in black. — Mr. A. H. Fasst reports that he has seen yet 6 entirely equal specimens of this species 
in a South American museum. 
43. Genus: Catagramma Bsd. 
Most of the species of this genus spread all over tropical America are medium-sized, although some 
larger species are met, too; a great part is homed in the Amazon valley and the side-valleys of it. They 
are easily recognizable by their exterior to be seen from the figures and can hardly be mixed up with 
specimens of the very nearly allied genera Callicore and Perisama. As to the structure of the body, Catagramma 
differs from Callicore by the branching-off of a subcostal vein before the cell-end, and from Perisama by 
the naked eyes; the $4 have uncommonly thickened forelegs. 
W. Mutter states the following about the early stages of C. pygas: the larva lives on Allophylus petio- 
latus Radlk. The eggs are deposited on the under surface or on the tips of the upper surface of the leaves. 
Instead of the spines, the larva has only enlarged little warts on each of which there are 2 bristles; the horns 
on the head are comparatively still larger than in Callicore, for they attain a length of 1 cm; the thicke- 
ning in the middle of the body takes place only shortly before changing into a pupa, before that the larva 
is cylindrical. The pupa is similar to that of Callicore meridionalis. It seems very difficult to rear up the 
larva in closed rooms. 
C. brome Bsd. (101 Bb) from Colombia is one of the smaller species with yellow bands. It is charac- 
teristic for its broad almost oviform yellow bands of the forewings. 
C. atacama Hew. (101 Bc) from Chiriqui, Colombia and Peru is easily distinguished from the similar 
species by the under surface. 
C. faustina Bates (101 Bc) from Panama has, like atacama, longitudinal stripes on the under sur- 
face of the hindwings, but is nevertheless considerably different, also above. 
C. denina Hew. (101 Bb) from Colombia is similar to atacama, but smaller and beneath with diffe- 
rent markings. 
C. mionina Hew. (101 Bb) from Colombia, chiefly differs from the preceding species by the under 
surface. 
C. tolima Hew. (101 Bb) from Peru and Northern Brazil has a broader yellow band of the fore- 
wings than mionina and a large spot of blue reflection on the hindwings. 
freyja. 
fassli. 
brome. 
atacama. 
faustin 
Ch. 
denina. 
mionin 
tolima. 
a. 
C. guatemalena Bates (101 Bc) from Guatemala resembles the preceding, but has a considerably guatema- 
lighter under surface. 
C. lyca Dbl. and Hew. (101 Bc), from Mexico to Colombia, has very narrow orange band of the fore- 
lyca. 
lena. 
