GENUS CASTNIA AND SOME ALLIED GROUPS. 185 



ist das Weiss uberwiegend ausgebreitet ; unten dem letzteren selir ahnlich (veilleichi 

 nur clessen 2 ?)•" Lat. 88 mm. 

 Sab. BrasUia. lu Mus. Kaden olim. 

 Castnia albofasciata, Sehaufuss, Nuuq. Otios. p. 10. 



\_Obs. The three foUowing species form the genus OJEBETES of Boisduval. See 

 mpra, pp. 166, 167.] 



53. Castnia chremes. C. alis anticis apice acutis, fuscis aut brunneo-fuscis, basi parum 

 pallidioribus, fascia obliqua pallidiore e medio costEe ad medium disci extensa inde 

 dilatata, parte basali versus medium marginis postici extensa, parte externa ad 

 angulum posticum extensa, fascia altera abbreviata subrecta pallida inter priorem et 

 apicem, strigaque valde indistincta undulata prope marginem posticum : alis pos- 

 ticis maris nigris purpureo Isete nitidis, punctis duobus (vel 1) costalibus, margine 

 ad angulum externum punctisque nonnuUis submarginalibus laete aurantiaco-rufis ; 

 foeminae rufo-aurantiacis, fasciis duabus maculisque marginalibus nigris : alis anticis 

 subtus pone medium fascia obliqua recta nigra in utroque sexu. Expans. alar. 

 antic. 6 unc. 2^3|-, S unc. 3-3|. 



Papilio chremes, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. 47 § ; Jones, Icones, iii. pl. 72. f. 2; Walker, List Lep. Het. 



B. M. i. p. 31 {Casinia chremes) ; Boisduval, H. n. Lep. Het. p. 536 (Ceretes chremes). 

 Corybantes nicon, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. Versic. 1. f. 1, 4 ; Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. L. ii_ 



p. 148. 

 Castnia thalaira, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. 800 ( ? ). 

 Castnia Fabricii, Swainson, teste Bdv. op. cit. p. 539. 

 Papilio thdis, Drury, 111. iii. pl. 16. f. 4 (not of Walker) . 



Pcem. var. major (exp. alar. antic. unc. 3f ). " Ferrugineo-fusca, aurato viridique micans ; 

 pectus et abdomen aurato-ochracea ; alse anticee fasciis tribus abbreviatis f uscis ; 

 posticse late ochraceae, subpurpurascentes, postice atrte fasciis duabus arcuatis 

 ochraceis, Ima submaculari, 2da maculari." 

 Castnia morphoides, Wlk. List Lep. Heter. B. M. pl. 31. f. 43, = C.nicon, Hiib. Exot. Schmett. 



Length of wings 44 lines. " Nearly allied to C. icarus; but the markings of the fore 

 ■wings are diflferent." 

 BrazU. In Mus. Brit. 



Poem. var. minor. (exp. alar. antic. unc. 2-2|^). 

 Castnia thdis, Boisduval, op. cit. p. 537. 



Hab. Brasilia, Minas Geraes, Rio Janeiro, between Sapezal and Concei^ao {Burchell, 

 30 October, 1827). " Umbroso sylvse densa^, volatu et coloribus JPJialence," BurcheU, 

 MS. In Mus. Britann., Hopeiano Oxonise, Boisduval. 



From the great diversity of the sexes of this and the foUowing species, and the variable- 

 ness in the intensity of their markings, there has been great confusion in their nomen- 

 clature. 



The description of C. chremes (female) given by Pabricius is scarcely sufficient to 

 distinguish it from the smaller species, although his words •' faseiis duabus " would imply 

 simple and not irregular stripes, and his description of the fore wings, " subtus fere con- 



