ICO 
GATACRAM5IA CONDOMANUS. 
PLATE XX. Figs. 1 and 2. 
Pap. Astarte, Cramer, PI. 256, fig. C, D Nymph. Condo- 
manus, Godart . — CatagTamuia Condomanus, Buisd. 
Tnis genus includes a pretty group of Nymphalida >, 
which are mostly of small size, and marked with an- 
nular lines of bright colours on the under side of the 
inferior wings. They are pretty closely allied to Hip- 
parchia, hut are natives of the new world. The wings 
• are ample, and all of them rounded on the posterior 
edges. In the species referred to, the colour of the 
surface is black, glossed with violet, the upper 
wings with two wide transverse red hands, one near 
the hasq, the other beyond the middle ; on the un- 
der wings the interior band is continued nearly to 
the hinder margin. The under side of the superior 
wings resembles the surface, but the costa is yellow 
at the base, and a narrow blue line runs along the 
outer margin. The under w ings are black beneath, 
having a large oval yellow ring on the disk, enclos- 
ing three pale blue points and a short yellow streak : 
behind this ring there is a curved row of blue dots, 
succeeded by a yellow line running parallel with the 
hinder border, and not far from it : at the base of 
