HELICONIDA.—ITHOMIA. 
ITHOMIA LAMIA. 182. 
Ithomia Lamia, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 21, 1869. 
Uprrrsipr. Male, transparent white, slightly tinted with yellow near the base. Both wings” 
with the outer margin broadly brown traversed by a series of large white spots. Anterior wing 
with the costal and inner margins brown: crossed at the end of the ell by a band of brown which 
follows the second branch of the median nervure to the outer margin. Posterior wing with a 
similar but angular band of brown at the end of the cell, following the third branch of the median 
nervure. 
Unpersipe as above, except that the costal margin of the posterior wing is yellow from its base 
to its middle. 
Exp. 14%5 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Curaray, Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Much like 7. Hthica of Hewitson, but with the neuration of both wings different. In Lamia the spur is on the 
second disco-cellular nervule of the anterior wing. In Lthica it is on the third. 
ITHOMIA TICIDELLA. 183. 
Ithomia Ticidella, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 21, 1869. 
Uprrrsipz. Male, transparent white: the margims brown, narrow. Anterior wing with the 
inner border of the costal and inner margins rufous to the middle of the wing: the costal spot 
white. Posterior wing rufous near the inner margin. 
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the margins are rufous-yellow, that the anterior wing has 
three apical white spots, and that the posterior wing has its base yellow, and a series of submarg ginal 
white spots in pairs. 
Exp. 236 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (St. Ines, Buckley.) 
180d. Neuration of posterior wing. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Neuration as in Sylvo, but without the band at the end of the cell of the anterior wing. 
ITHOMIA THABENA. 184. 
Ithomia Thabena, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 18, 1869. 
Uprrrsipr. Female, transparent: the nervures black. Anterior wing with a rufous tint : 
the costal margin (which is half rufous) and the outer margin (which is dentated inwardly) narrow, 
the inner margin (which is broad) and a band at the end of the cell, all dark brown: the spot on the 
costal margin white. Posterior wing tinted with lilac, with the neuration of Zerlima: the costal 
margin and the outer margin (which is very broad) dark brown. 
UnperstpdE as above, except that all the margins and the band at the end of the cell of the 
anterior wing are rufous, that the anterior wing has three minute apical spots of white, and that the 
posterior wing has a submarginal series of white spots in pairs: the apical spot largest and single. 
Exp. 27 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA AUIGINETA. 185. 
Ithomia Aigineta, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 17, 1869. 
Uprersipg. Female, transparent lilac-white, except the apical half of the anterior wing which 
is tinted with orange. Both wings with the margins broadly black: the outer margins (very broad 
on the posterior wing) dentated on the inner border: the nervures black, very slender. Anterior: 
wing with a large black spot at the end of the cell, and beyond it a rufous spot on the costal margin. 
Posterior w ing with the neuration of Zerlina: a black spot on the costal margin at the end of the cell. 
Unperstpe as above, except that both wings have a submarginal series ‘of white spots in pairs, 
except at the apex and at the anal angle of the posterior wing » where they are single. Posterior 
wing with a white spot at the middle of the costal margin. 
° Exp. 234 inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Rio Verdi, Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
