150 RHOPALOCERA. 
H. telchinia, the species which seems to take its place in the State of Panama being | 
H. clarescens. 
Note.—Under the name of H. anderida, Hewitson described a species of Heliconius 
allied to H. telchinia, which was said to be from Honduras. So far as we can see, the 
figure agrees very well with the Venezuelan butterfly since described by Mr. Butler 
as H. metalilis; and we strongly suspect that in this, as in so many other instances, 
the specimens were collected by Dyson, and that his Honduras and Venezuelan localities 
have been confused. If this surmise be correct, the name H. metalilis becomes a 
synonym of H. anderida, and the species must be removed from the Central-American 
fauna. 
11. Heliconius clarescens. (Tab. XVII. figg. 5, 6.) 
Heliconius clarescens, Butl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xv. p. 223°. 
H. telchinie similis, sed fascia nigra posticarum transversa nulla, et posticarum costa subtus haud nigra facile 
distinguendus. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Arcé), Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 
This species is only known to us from a few specimens sent to this country from the 
neighbourhood of Chiriqui. One of these was described by Mr. Butler, whose type is 
before us. A second specimen, that represented on our Plate, differs in a few points 
from the type, in which the discal spot of the primaries is smaller, and an elongated 
yellow spot is indicated between the first and second median branches ; the black border, 
too, of the secondaries is broader. In coloration H. clarescens has the pattern of 
Melinea scylax*. 
12. Heliconius fasciatus. (Tab. XVII. figg. 3, 4.) 
Heliconius fasciatus, Godm. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 62°. 
H. jucundo similis, sed macula nigra in cellule medio parte apicali nigro conjuncta, punctis quatuor in linea ad 
apicem albis (his subtus fortioribus), posticis fascia transversa nigra bene definita, distinguendus. 
Obs. H. ismenio, Latr., proxime affinis, sed posticis fascia transversa nigra integra et puncto posticarum ad 
apicem albo diversus. 
Hab. Panama, Veraguas (Arcé), Lion-Hill station (I‘Leannan !). 
At first sight this Heliconius appears exceedingly like H. jucundus; but on closer 
inspection the different position of the apical row of white spots on the primaries at 
once distinguishes it. In H. fasciatus this row of spots follows the curve of the apex, 
lying close to the margin; in H. jucundus it lies obliquely across the wing further 
inside. | 
H. fasciatus, no doubt, takes the place of the Colombian H. tsmenius, described and 
figured by Latreille in Humboldt’s ‘Recueil d’Observations de Zoologie’; but it 
* Anted, p. 12. 
