PLATE XX. Figs. 1 and 2.
Pap. Astarte, _Cramer_, Pl. 256, fig. C, D--Nymph. Condomanus,
_Godart_.--Catagramma Condomanus, _Boisd._
This genus includes a pretty group of _Nymphalidæ_, which are mostly
of small size, and marked with annular lines of bright colours on the
under side of the inferior wings. They are pretty closely allied to
_Hipparchia_, but 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 bands, one near the base, the other
beyond the middle; on the under 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 wings are black
beneath, having a large oval yellow ring on the disk, enclosing 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 the wing
there is likewise a yellow streak, and the sinuosities on the hinder
edge are white.
The individual figured differs slightly from most other examples, in as
much as it has two small white spots on the surface of the hinder wings
near the anal angle.
This species inhabits Brazil and Surinam.