CASTNIA. 
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tawny on outer margin, and interrupted by an irregular X-shaped arrangement of black 
bands ; subapical hyaline spots well defined : secondaries nearly as above, but paler ; two 
black spots beyond the middle. Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 
Rio Janeiro [Stevens) . 
Most nearly allied to C. phalaris. 
Castnia boisduvalii. (Plate I. fig. 4.) 
Castnia boisduvalii, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 27. n. 28 (1854). 
Castnia beskei, Menetries, Cat. Fetroj). t. xi. fig. 3 (1857). 
Body dark brown, antennae ferruginous ; abdomen laterally spotted with reddish orange ; 
anal tuft ferruginous : primaries shining purplish brown, with bronzy reflections, blackish at 
the base and at end of cell ; a very oblique blackish discal band forking to costa from its 
upper third ; three subapical hyaline white spots : secondaries black, with a very irregular 
central scarlet band, and two imperfect submarginal series of scarlet spots. Wings below 
brownish tawny, shading into red in parts : primaries with the apex broadly brown ; hyaline 
spots as above ; two subcostal black blotches, and three discal black spots : secondaries with a 
row of black discal dots ; pectus sordid whitish, venter dull testaceous. Expanse of wings 
3 inches. 
Brazil [Becker). 
Castnia dalmannii. (Plate II. fig. 3.) 
Castnia dalmannii, G. B. Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 145. n. 13 (1837). 
Male. — Primaries olivaceous, with a narrow transverse white band, near which are two 
hyaline dots : secondaries deep red, with the base brown ; a broad white patch from abdominal 
margin to subcostal nervure ; a submarginal row of large black spots ; nervures with black 
tips : head and thorax olivaceous, abdomen sordid whitish. Expanse of wings 4 inches 
0 lines. 
Brazil [Children). 
Described as the female. The male of Mr. Gray's description is probably C. hegenioii of 
Kollar ; the additional six lines in expanse are accounted for by the setting of the type ; 
measured from tip to tip it is just four inches and half a line, the anterior wings being thrown 
considerably in advance of the head. 
Castnia strigata. (Plate II. fig. 5.} 
Castnia strigata, WaVcer, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 30. n. 35 (1854). 
Wings above dark brown, shot with dull green : primaries with a white discoidal streak ; 
an angulated streak below it ; an oblique postmedian band, its last two divisions separated by 
the nervures ; two spots on internal area, and two near external angle, also six, placed in pairs, 
near the apex : secondaries with two rows of spots united at anal angle by an irregular orange 
