HELICONID®.—ITHOMIA. 
Unpersibz as above except that the brown is traversed by a rufous band. 
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA SYLPHIS. 227. 
Heliconia Sylphis. Guerin, Icones Régne Animal Insects, texte, page 471. 
Uprrersipr. Male transparent lilac-white, the margins and nervures dark 
brown, a broad triangular band which includes the second median nervule dark 
brown. 
UnpersipE as above except that the brown is rufous and that the posterior 
wing has two white spots at the apex. 
Exp. 2 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA DOLABELLA. 228. 
Uprrrsipr. Male. Anterior wing black with a large triangular transparent 
lilac-white spot in the cell crossed by an indistinct band of brown: a transverse 
irregular band and two spots near the apex white. Posterior wing transparent 
lilac-white, the outer margin (which is traversed by an indistinct rufous band) and 
the nervures black. 
Unpersipe as above except that the black is traversed by rufous bands and that 
both wings have an apical series of three bifid lilac-white spots. 
Female does not differ from the male. 
Exp. 24/9 inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.) 
ITHOMIA CANTOBRICA. 229. 
UpprersiprE. Female. Anterior wing dark brown, the base rufous with a 
triangular black spot im the cell: crossed beyond the middle by an irregular band 
and spot of yellow and a submarginal series of yellow spots. Posterior wing rufous 
with the outer margin which is dentated inwardly and a short central band dark 
brown. 
UNDERSIDE as above except that the anterior wing has rufous longitudinal striz 
between the band and the apex: that the central band of the posterior wing is longer 
and bordered above with yellow and that there is a submarginal series of white spots. 
Exp. 23% inch. Hab. Bolivia. (Buckley.) 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA PHILETAERA. 230. 
Upprrsipr. Female. Both wings with the basal half rufous-orange, the outer 
half black: both with a submarginal series of yellow spots. Anterior wing with a 
large irregular sinuated central yellow spot deeply indented at the costal margin 
and bordered inwardly by two triangular black spots. 
UnpersipE as above except that the submarginal spots (save three at the apex 
of the anterior wing) are white. 
Exp. 23%5 inch. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
