NTMPHALID.E. — HELlCONINiE. — HELICONIUS. 



IV.— HELICONIUS ANACREON. Fig. 5. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



IJpPERSiDE. Anterior wings dark brown, with a rather broad transverse 

 brick-red band extending beyond the cell, the upper angle of which it just 

 invades, nearly as far as the lowest median nervule. Base with four red stripes, 

 the first narrow, subcostal, the others broader, one in the cell, and the two others 

 below; median nervure edged with yellow above (and slightly below), followed 

 by a yellow spot in the fork of the lowest submedian nervule. Posterior wings 

 dark brown, costa brownish-grey, below which is a broad yellow band, extend- 

 ing nearly to the apex ; there are also six radiating stripes between the nervures, 

 of which only three extend above the yellow stripe. 



Underside chocolate-brown. Anterior wings with tlie transverse band 

 narrower, pale pink, edged below with orange-red, inner margin pinkish-grey ; 

 of the basal stripes only the upper yellow stripe and spot and a short red stripe 

 at the base of the costa are distinctly visible, but there is a slight reddish shade 

 in the cell. Posterior wings with a short yellow stripe at the base of the costa ; 

 fringes at the apex and a little below whitish ; the long yellow stripe as above, 

 but paler ; a long red subparallel stripe above it, and three red stripes marked 

 with black nearer the base ; and seven red stripes radiating below the yellow 

 band. 



Head, legs, and undersurface of abdomen slightly marked with yellow. 



Hab. Bolivia. 



In the Collections of Dr. Staudinger and H. Grose Smith. 

 Allied to H. Thelxiope, Hiibn. 



