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28. — HELICONIUS LEUOE. 



This ia figured in Hiibner's " Exotische Schmetterlinge " as S. 

 Sappho of Drury, the latter being quite a difterent species. I have 

 adopted tlie M.S. name given to it by Dr. Boisduval. 



Taken, in some numbers, in the interior provinces of GTuatemala. 



29. — HELICONIUS GALANinUS. 



Similar in size, shape, and colour to H. Leuce; namely, the ground 

 colour is glossy slaty blue, with the extreme borders of the wings black. 

 The fore-wiug has in the middle a very large slightly transparent clear 

 white spot, occupying nearly the half of the wing ; its outer edge is 

 only a little incurved near the hind border, and has not a prolonged 

 lobe as in H. Leuce ; a black spot lies on the upper discocellular ner- 

 vules, which is connected with the black costal border extending to the 

 base. The hind-wing has a series of gray marginal spots increasing in 

 size from the anal angle to the apex. Beneath : fore-wing same as 

 above ; hind-wing dark brown ; a costal streak, a short discal stripe, 

 and a curved streak parallel to, but distant from, the hind margin, dark 

 reddish ; the outer border near the apex has a row of three white spots. 

 Body and antennae black. 



Interior and eastern parts of Guatemala. 



30. — HELICONIUS CHIONEITS. 



Closely allied to ITel. GyAno (Doubled. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. 

 Lep. pi. 15, f. 3). Ground colour glossy blue-black, becoming gray 

 near the edges of the pale belts. The fore-wing has a large belt of the 

 same shape as in S. Gydno, but instead of yellow it is pure white. The 

 hind-wing has a broad sub-marginal white stripe similar to that of S. 

 Cydno ; it is crossed by nervures, and is so near to the hind margin, that 

 it leaves but a very narroiv dusky outer border. Beneath : same as 

 above, except that the fore edge of hind-wings is broadly ochreous, and 

 that there are two broad tawny-coloured vittse across the disk. 



Panama, one example only. 



31. — ACR^A GFATEMALEKA. 



Expans. 3" 4'". Allied to A. Thalia. Blackish-brown. Fore-wing 

 with five spots or streaks near the base (between the branches of the 

 median nerviire and in the cell), and a belt of four spots, distant from 

 the apex, pale ochreous. Hind-wing with a broad blackish-brown outer 

 border emitting short thick streaks between the nervures ; the rest of 



