CASTNIA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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to the inner (hind) margin. Moreover, thais is larger, etc. The hindwing of the $ of ihais is black in its apical 
half, with two rows of red spots, in marcelserres red with three rows of black spots. The <$ of thais has blackish 
blue hindwing bearing a reddish yellow marginal band in the anterior half. — Brazil. 
C. inornata Wkr. Rust-reddish brown, fawn-colour below. Frontal tuft porrect, lanceolate, projecting inornate/. 
beyond the head. Tip of antenna light grey. Abdomen blackish above, not reaching the anal angle, each seg¬ 
ment with a yellow transverse spot. Fore wing with two irregular oblique brown bands, diffuse on their out¬ 
side, and having between them a kidney-shaped dark grey spot with a brown edge; below with two irregular 
dark brown bands beyond the centre, the first in spots, the second strongly abbreviated posteriorly, marginal 
area (below ?) fawn coloured. Hindwing beneath with an irregular, abbreviated, rust-coloured line straight 
across the centre, at the costal end enclosing a whitish spot. Length of body 10 lines, expanse of wings 31 
lines. Is said to be allied to C. thais. Patria not given. Unknown to me. 
K. Similar to the preceding group, but the forewing with subapical vitreous spots. 
C. inca Wkr. (= clitarcha Westw.) (5 a) extends from Mexico to Venezuela and is distinguished inter inca. 
alia by the markings of the hindwing, which bears at least in the an isolated black spot at the costal margin 
(5 a). In staudingeri Druce (5 a) the black marginal band of this wing is strongly reduced or entirely obsolete standingeri. 
and therefore connected with the preceding band only at the anal angle, being anteriorly divergent from the outer 
margin and here usually separated into spots, the fore wing appears lighter and more unicolorous than in inca 
and the hindwing is partly yellow (5a). It is not improbable that staudingeri is a form occurring only in the 
$-sex. (There are nine specimens of inca before me, all d'd', and three of staudingeri, all $$.) The only $ be¬ 
fore me which I consider the ordinary $ of inca differs from staudingeri principally in the absence of the 
yellow patch in the hindwing. - — hondurana $-form. nov. is smaller (expanse 58, length of wing 32 mm.) and in hondurana. 
the hindwing rather like the $ m colour; the black antelimbal band of the same is not connected with the 
margin even at the anal angle. Honduras. 
C. clitarcha Wvo. (^ ; clitarcha Ww. belongs to inca\ ) (8 e), from Chiriqui, is in the S very like the preced- clitarcha. 
ing, but the black marginal band of the hindwing also covers the margin, while the real marginal band of inca 
is reddish yellow (which is unfortunately scarcely distinct enough in our figure), the size is more considerable 
(expanse of wings about 110 mm)., the apex of the wing has three vitreous spots, the central one of which is large 
and elongate, etc. The largest $ before me measures 120 mm; the markings of the hindwing are, like those of 
the similar to those of inca with the exception of the marginal markings; the forewing bears a median and 
a postmedian greyish yellow transverse band in the costal half. — orizabensis form. nov. (8 d), from Orizaba, orizabemis. 
I place with clitarcha with a query, as it is intermediate between inca and clitarcha. 
C. ahala Druce (4e), from the Amazon, is very like the $ of inca, but smaller and inter alia differs aliala. 
in the narrow dark oblique band of the fore wing. 
C. palatinus Cr., from Guiana and Brazil, resembles inca , but the vitreous spots of the forewing are yalaiinus. 
smaller, the light median band of the hindwing is white in its posterior half, the black marginal band only encloses 
very small spots, which are often also reduced in number, etc. 
C. boisduvali Wkr. (= herrichii H.-Schdff. 9) (Id) differs in the $ from the $ figured in that every- boisduvali. 
thing which is red in the latter is yellow in the former, as is also the abdomen. Widely distributed in S. America. — 
besekei Men. $ differs from the normal in the fewer markings on the underside of the forewing and the lighter besekei. 
red colour on the upper side of the hindwing. Bahia. 
C. papagaya Ww. (4 d). Forewing in the basal half yellowish with a greenish sheen, brown base and papagaya. 
brown kidney-shaped transverse costal-discocellular spot; marginal area brown; before the centre of the inner 
margin to the costal margin close before the apex of the wing a blackish brown band which at both ends is 
strongly widened triangularly and anteriorly encloses a vitreous spot divided by the dark veins. Hindwing red 
with bluish black basal area and two narrow black transverse bands, the veins being broadly edged with black 
in the marginal area. Expanse of wings 97 mm. Papagaya. — There is a $-form before me from Rio Grande 
do Sul which differs in that the dark band of the forewing is quite interrupted in the centre, and the two black 
bands of the hindwing are connected by the broad black dusting of the intermediate veins so that the red colour 
between them appears as isolated red spots; the black dusting on the veins in the marginal area however is very 
narrow and indistinct. I name this form grandensis form. nov. grandensis. 
C. menetriesi Bsd. Is compared with boisduvali and dalmani. Forewing blackish brown with two deep menetriesi. 
black transverse bands, the anterior one of which is bifid, being connected with the other by a lateral branch; 
in the costal area two lighter smears. Hindwing black, towards the centre with a large yellow transverse spot, 
and margined with four or five orange spots. — Brazil. 
C. superba Strand (5 a), from Chanchamayo (Peru), occupies a unique position on account of its broad, superba. 
deep black parallel-sided band on the hindwing contrasting sharply with the light yellow one beside it. 
