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subterminal row of black clots, a similar series at the outer margin, and 

 two black spots near the tip of the wing. Beneath, the primaries are deep 

 red with three black spots .it the costa, sometimes appearing as broken 

 bands, an interrupted black subterminal band crosses the wing, and 

 there is a row of black dots at the outer margin. Secondaries with a nar- 

 row or wide black outer margin, widest at' the apex where it incloses a 

 white or pale red split, and having usually an inward dilation of this 

 black margin beyond the middle. Palpi, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 white, the former with black spots, the abdomen unspotted above, be- 

 neath with two rows of black dots. Prothorax and pategia with a yellow 

 or led spot on each side. The differences between these species are that 

 bella Ins yellow primaries with six transverse bands, each containing a 

 3 ries of black dots, while speciosa is vermillion, the bands as in bella. 

 The secondaries of these two species are pink. Orn.rtrix has pale flesh 

 colored primaries, the costa narrowly and interruptedly vermillion, the 

 pale spaces with black costal dots, and there are also usually two black 

 dots beyond the middle of the wing: these are, however sometimes want- 

 ing. The subterminal row of dots is in an obsolete white band, and be- 

 tween that and the series of dots at the outer margin, is a narrow broken 

 band of vermilion. Beneath, the primaries are as in bella and speciosa. 

 Secondaries white, the black outer margin generally very wide. Beneath 

 the costa is pink. 



It does not seem to be doubtful that here are three specifically 

 distinct forms, should the differences be constant; but as already men- 

 tioned, there are specimens which prove that these species merge one 

 into the other. These I shall describe as far as I can compare them. 



All specimens from the United States which I saw were true bella, 

 but a specimen from Cuba varies toward speciosa in that the primaries 

 show rosy hue. The second example from Cuba is most interesting 

 for it at once merges speciosa and ornatrix. The primaries are white with 

 a rosy hue; the first and fourth bands only are perfect and run to the 

 inner margin, the second and third only as costal spots, and all are 

 yellow with a slight reddish hue, as is the stripe near the outer margin. 



Secondaries partly rosy, partly white, the latter color near the hind 

 margin. This specimen approaches Stretch's fig. 17 of pi. II, but the 

 spots of the primaries are yellow, not red, and the secondaries have the 

 black outer margin more narrow, and the rosy hue more extensive. 



The examples of speciosa from the West Indies vary considerably: 

 some have vermillion primaries and sharply limited white bands, while 

 others have white primaries with small and obsolete red bands, and 

 sometimes the bands are broken into spots. 



With regard to ornatrix, all examples from the mainland are true to 

 type, and vary very little, — specimens from Peru only showing a more 



