IIELIOPETES. 9 



colours. Among them is Eantis busirus (Cramer), a dull brown 

 species measuring two inches in expanse, with rather broad 

 dark brown wings, crossed with darker striae, and slightly 

 hooked at the tip of the fore-wings; the hind-margin of the 

 hind-wings is broadly bordered beneath with yellowish, dusted 

 with brown. It inhabits Brazil. 



GENUS IIELTOrETES. 



Ileliopdes, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 8i (1S20). 

 This genus includes a number of rather small white Butter- 

 flies, peculiar to Tropical America. I have figured the typical 

 species. 



HELIOPETES ARSALTE. 

 {Plate LXIX, Fig. 6.) 



Papilio arsalle, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 469, no. 67 

 (175S); id. Mus. Ludov. Ulricx, p. 246 (1764); Clerck, 

 Icones, pi. 23, fig. 2 (1764)- 

 Papilio niveus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 22, fig. C (i775)- 

 Urbanus juvettis niveiis, 9, Hubner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. 



pi. 157 (1805?)- 

 Hesperia arsalte, Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 786, no. 152 



'(1823). 



This is a white Butterfly, expanding from \]{ inches to ij^ 

 inches across the wings. There is a black marginal line (the 

 incisions are white) and the tips of the nervures are black, 

 sometimes forming a slight border, interrupted with white, at 

 the tip of the fore-wings. On the under side the base of the 

 wing is marked with orange, and the costa of the fore-wings, 

 and the costa, median nervure and lowest median nervulc, and 

 the sub-median nervure of the hind-wings, are black. 



