CATAGRAMMA PYRAMU3. 
PLATE XX. Figs. 3 and 4. 
Pap. Pyramus, Drury's Insects , iii. PI. 23, fig. 3, 4, (Male) ; 
Stoll's Supp. PI. 32, fig. 3, and 3 C. 
This prettily coloured butterfly measures about an 
inch and three-quarters between the tips of the 
wings. The surface is black, finely tinged with 
violet, with a broad central common band of bright 
red, not extending either to the costa or hinder ex- 
tremity. The under side of the upper wings nearly 
corresponds to the surface, but they are grey at the 
base and tip, and near the latter there is an undu- 
lating blue line : the under wings dark brown 
sprinkled with grey, with two whitish spots towards 
the base, without any vestige of a red band, a 
curved row' of ocellated spots behind the middle, 
and a waved blue line near the extremity. 
The female is black on the surface without any 
violet reflection, and the red band, which is nar- 
rower than in the male, does not extend to the 
secondary wings. This insect is a native of Brazil. 
We have placed it in the genus Catagramma, with- 
out knowing what limits are assigned to the group 
so called by the continental entomologists, as the 
name only has yet been published. Perhaps it 
rather belongs to the division named Hipparchia. 
