ITUNA.—LYCOREA. 5) 
1. Ituna lamirus. 
Heliconius lamirus, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. i. p. 126, t. 41. f. 7, 8 (1833) *; Butl. 
& Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 330°. 
Lycorea lamyra, Boisd. Lép. de Guat. p. 28°. 
Ituna albescens, Distant, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1876, p. xi°. 
Alis primariis nigris, margine interno, et striga arcuata a basi ad angulum analem extensa, fulvis, striis tribus 
transversis subhyalinis, venis divisis, in dimidio apicali positis; posticis fulvis, costa et margine externo 
nigris, maculis indistinctis subhyalinis angulum apicalem versus notatis: subtus pallidior, maculis 
obscuris rufo tinctis, posticis medialiter albescentibus, margine externo maculis albis notato; primari- 
arum apicibus quoque albo notatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Mountains of Oaxaca (Fenochio); GuaTEMALA °, Rio Polochic, Chuacus 
(F. D. G. & O. S.); Costa Rica* (Carmiol, Van Patten”), Cache (Rogers); Panama, 
Calobre (Arcé).—CoLoMBIA. 
Specimens from Colombia agree closely with the plate in Humboldt and Bonpland’s 
work', Central-American examples showing several points of slight variation. The 
light markings on the primary wings are broader and more confluent in northern 
specimens, and the secondaries are more uniformly suffused with fulvous, the central 
portion of the latter in southern examples being semidiaphanous. 
Were these points of distinction constant we should feel disposed to separate the 
Central-American specimens specifically from those of Colombia; but the former 
show that in Veraguan and Costa-Rican examples there is an indication of the pecu- 
liarities exhibited in Colombian ones, and we also see that the more northern 
the locality whence individuals have been procured the greater the density of the 
colouring of the secondary wings. Constant characters therefore fail whereby to 
distinguish these incomplete races; for this reason we are unable to admit Mr. Distant’s 
I. albescens* as a distinct species. 
Ituna lamirus, though widely distributed, is nowhere very abundant, being found in 
mountain-valleys about 2000 or 3000 feet above the sea. It appears to be absent from 
the low-lying land of Panama ; but, according to Dr. Boisduval, it is found in Nicaragua’, 
LYCOREA. 
Lycorea, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 105 (1847). 
Subcostal of primaries emitting two branches before the end of the cell. 
This genus, though nearly related to Danais, may easily be distinguished from it by 
the absence in the male of the peculiar patch on the submedian nervure of the secon- 
dary wings which distinguishes the members of the genus Danais, and by other cha- 
racters. In possessing tufts of hairs at the extremity of the abdomen, however, its 
close relationship to Danais is shown. 
