The caterpillar is accurately figured by Stoll, in his valuable Supplement to Cramer’s work. It is of a dull green, with a brown or nearly black ray on the back, and spots and short stripes of the same colour on the sides. The head is black, with green rays; on the upper part are two, and on each side of the anterior part of the first segment, three small rounded yellow spots. It feeds on the leaves of a species of Piperis, but only during the night, concealing itself in the day by rolling a portion of the leaf round its body, in order to protect it from the sun. The chrysalis is greyish, tinged with flesh-colour, and marked with small brown spots. The insect occurs in Guiana, Brazil, &c. [Illustration: PLATE 20. _1. 2. Catagramma Condomanus._ } } Brazil. _3. 4. ---- Pyramus._ } _Lizars sc._] CATAGRAMMA CONDOMANUS. 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. CATAGRAMMA PYRAMUS. 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.