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CASTNIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
mans. 
casmilus. 
bipunctata. 
depunctata. 
tripunctata. 
combinata. 
or no white sublimbal spots present. —- maris Dalm. is said to have both wings of a deep black ground-colour 
bearing a rather sharply marked band on the forewing, casmilus Hbn. has only one white sublimbal spot in the 
hindwing, bipunctata form. nov. has two similar ones, depunctata form. nov. none at all; I have not seen a 
form tripunctata form. nov. with three such spots, but this doubtless occurs according to Godart’s description. 
I consider the form with four sublimbal spots on the hindwing as typical. — combinata form. nov. (8 c) resembles 
bipunctata, but the white bands are narrower both above and below. 
V. Forewing black with bluish and greenish sheen, without any markings other than a straight pale oehreous sharply 
marked transverse band running from the anal angle about vertically to the costal margin. 
pelasgus. C. pelasgus Stoll (8 a) is one of the smaller species of Castnia (expanse of wings 43 to 58 mm.) and widely 
umfasciata. distributed in South America. Below, the light band is broader than above. -— uriifasciafa Fldr., from the 
Amazon, has the band of the forewing pure white. 
X. Forewing blackish olive-violet with whitish Y-shaped band, hindwing red with black transverse band and black 
margin. 
hecate. C. hecate H.-Schdff. (4 e) inhabits Hayti. Underside of forewing reddish yellow with blackish apex 
and the band of the upperside shining through. 
Z. Forewing dark with broad and sharply marked transverse band which is elbowed in a right angle, being concave 
proximally, and three subapical vitreous spots. Ilindwing black with two rows of red spots. 
veraguana. C. veraguana Westw. (3 c $) occurs in Panama. In 1896 Schaus described a (J-form from Colombia 
govara. under the provisional name of C. govara (8 d), the forewing only differing in that the subapical spots 
are more oblique, while the hindwing is velvety black with a row of large red marginal spots. Expanse 108 to 
130 mm. I was enabled to examine a specimen of this form (from Bogota, Tring Museum) and believe that it is the 
3 of veraguana. 
II. Gazera: 
Forewing elongate-ovate. 
(cf. Appendix pp. 16 to 17.) 
A. Wing black with a light yellow spot in the hindwing. 
C. miniica Fldr. (6e) occurs at the Amazon, has red spots on body and at the base of the forewing 
and usually has a larger spot on the hindwing than our figure indicates. 
B. Wings black with yellowish spots shining through. 
C. linus Cr., from Guiana, is represented in Brazil by the form heliconioides H.-Schdff. (7 c); true 
linus differs from heliconioides in its lesser size, in the markings being paler yellow, the single spots of the lighter 
portion near the anal angle of the forewing shorter, the light submarginal spots of the hindwing, especially the 
two anterior ones, probably always shorter, and the two white dots in the anal angle present in heliconioides 
being absent in linus ; the veins of the light discal area of this wing are not black and not darker than the 
ground-colour or only slightly so; the black transverse band of the underside on the hindwing is altogether 
broader than in heliconioides , and never separated into spots in the middle. — There is a form from Tarap 
in Peru before me which differs from einus in the following points: the light subapical band of the forewing is 
broadly ovate (9 x 14.5 mm.), the black band bounding it proximally is narrow, the subapical light area merges 
together with that in the anal angle, the light spot at the apex of the cell is rounded in a semicircle on the 
outside, in the anal angle of the hindwing two light dots are present, as in heliconioides. Expanse 80 mm (<^). 
peruviana. I name this form peruviana form. nov. — There is a before me from Paraguay which probably belongs to 
micha. micha Druce, but it differs from the description in that the black band of the forewing is not very broad, the 
black transverse band of the forewing does not run into the anal angle any more than it does in the other 
forms of linus, but into the outer margin, the white submarginal spots of the forewing are three in number, 
and situated in the anterior half of the margin, the black transverse band of the hindwing is narrower than 
in linus, expanse 89 mm. The original description of micha reads as follows: “Primaries and secondaries hyaline, 
slightly irrorated with black scales; the veins all black; the costal, outer and inner margin edged with black; 
primaries very broad; a black band crosses the wing beyond the cell from the costal margin to the anal angle, 
and on the inner margin near the anal angle is a large round black spot; a black band crosses the cell about 
the middle ; two white elongated spots about the middle of the outer margin. Secondaries crossed below the 
middle from the costal margin to the anal angle by a wide curved black band, the outer margin black. Head, 
antennae, abdomen, and legs black; sides of the abdomen greyish, with a white spot on the last three segments; 
thorax spotted with white. Expanse 4 y 2 inches. Paraguay”. —- If the Paraguayan form before me should 
michana. require a name, it might be called michana m. 
Iinoules. C. linoides spec. nov. (8 b). The $ is similar to linus, but the markings of the forewing are narrow¬ 
er and white, the veins of both wings not scaled with black, the sublimbal spots of the hindwing white and 
much smaller than in linus, etc. — Paramba, 3500 ft., Ill, 1897, dry season (Type in Tring Museum). 
dodona. C. dodona Druce. Forewing long, narrow, hyaline, with black veins apical band ovate and very broad, 
a black band straight across the middle of the cell. Hindwing with very small hyaline median area and a broad 
rnimica. 
linus. 
heliconioi¬ 
des. 
