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medio-central interspace, from the outer margin; a bent opaque yellow belt, 

 fringed with orange tawny, marks the extremity of the latter area, and another, 

 abbreviated, rises from the costa between the discal bar and spot. The apical 

 portion of the wing is black, traversed by a broad opaque yellow bar, also 

 shading into orange tawny. 



Secondaries with a transverse maculate stripe, and a border, terminal, black ; 

 on this last some indistinct white spots ; remainder of wing orange tawny. 



Under surface of both wings chiefly the same, with the addition of seventeen 

 white marginal spots ; the abbreviated yellow bar of the primaries ex'erds 

 here from the costa to the median vein ; on the secondaries theie is a black 

 costal stripe, in addition to the markings of the upper surface, the space be- 

 tween which and the discal one is tinged with yellowish ; the base is also 

 marked with a yellow spot; expanse 3-25 inches. 



Thorax and abdomen above, blackish-brown, the first with a. central yellow 

 stripe; wing tippets orange tawny ; below yellowish. Antennae yellow, ringed 

 with orar ge tawny, black towards base. 



Hub. Honduras. Coll. Tryon Reakirt. 



Very similar to M. lysidice and doryssa, Doubldy., and Bates, and in common 

 with both, is a local race of M. polymnia. Specimens of the first are in my 

 collection, from the same locality, and for a fine example of the second, from 

 Guatemala, I am indebted to Mr. H. W. Bates. 



10. Melinjea paraiya, nov. sp. 



Male. Upper surface; apical half of fore wings dark brownish-black, with a 

 very irregular interior outline, closely resembling that of M. Egina&B far as the 

 first median veinlet, thence it is curved inwardly, and terminates in an attenua- 

 ted line on the basal third of the hind margin ; across this there are two equi- 

 distant, semi-opaque yellow bands, of which the apical is continuous, and the 

 other is divided into three spots, the central one being much the least: there 

 is also a sub-marginal row of smajl whits spots, varying from six to ten in 

 number; the basal third of the surface, excepting the costa, throughout its 

 entire length, which is black, is rich orange tawny, and the space between this 

 and the outer black portion is occupied by a broad semi-opaque yellow belt ; 

 within the cell there are two large rounded black spots, which mark the 

 chromatic line of separation. 



Secondaries orange tawny, with a broad black outer margin, on which appear 

 seme indistinct spots, and a discal set ies of six oblong black spots, unconnected 

 with the terminal border, and of which the second is very large, whence they 

 gradually diminish to the abdominal margin. 



Underneath the primaries remain chiefly as above. The secondaries have 

 the base marked with yellow; a short black bar runs along the costal veins 

 from the base, and there are one or two additional spots on the apical end of 

 the discal row ; the black outer margin also contains eleven or twelve small 

 white spots. Expanse 3 3-75 inches. 



Antennae black, becoming tawny ash-colored on their outer third. Thorax 

 bla^k, with a jellow dorsal stripe ; wing-covers and collar orange tawny, 

 dusky yellow beneath ; abdomen brown above, marked with orange tawny on 

 the upper part of the fi.st two segments, a broad yellow ventral stripe, and two 

 narrow lateral yellow line's, reaching only to the end of the second ring. 



Hub. Rio Janeiro; St. Catherines Island, Brazil. Coll. Tryon Reakirt. 



Taken in company with Ilel. Eucrate, Mech. Lysimnia, Napeoy. Sulpkurina, and 

 1th. Euritea. 



It is a local race of Mel Egina, but mimics neither the Heliconoid nor Danaid 

 form with which it is associated. 



11. Hkliconius Wallacei, Bates, in litt. 



Ilel. clytia, var. Bates, Trans. Linn. Soc, p. 556, n. 6 (1862). 

 "The first yellow belt of the fore wing is narrow, and similar in shape to 

 the first white belt of 11. Antiocha." 



Hub. Amazons. Coll. Tryon Reakirt. 



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