PLATE XX. Figs. 3 and 4.
Pap. Pyramus, _Drury’s Insects_, iii. Pl. 23, fig. 3, 4, (Male);
_Stoll’s Supp._ Pl. 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 extremity. 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 undulating
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 narrower 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_, without 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_.