HELICONIDA. 
HELICONIA. II. 
HELICONIA HERMATHENA. 5. 
Urrerstpe black. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad 
uregular oblique band of scarlet; a line of dirty yellow commences at the base, 
and follows the median nervure and a third of its first nervule. Posterior wing 
with a minute spot of scarlet near the base, crossed transversely a little below it 
by a band of yellow, intersected by black nervures, and by two curved macular bands 
of the same colour parallel to and near the outer margin, the inner band composed of 
oblong spots, the submarginal band of small round spots. 
UnpersipE as above, except that there are three scarlet spots near the base 
of the posterior wing instead of one, that there is a line of four or five spots of the 
same colour from the inner margin to the centre of the wing, midway between the 
first two bands, and that the costal margin at the base is yellow. 
Expan. 3745 in. Hab. river Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
This butterfly, another of those beautiful species for which we are indebted to Mr. Bates, has 
the anterior wing nearly the same as H. Phyllis, and the posterior wing somewhat like H. Charitonia. 
HELICONIA HECALESIA. 6. 
UprersipE black. Anterior wing with ten spots of pale yellow, two near the 
costal margin beyond the middle, two between them and the outer margin, one, 
bisected by the subcostal nervure, near the apex, and five in a row parallel to the 
outer margin. Posterior wing with the inner half brick-red, a row of oblong spots 
of yellow parallel to the outer margin, and increasing in size from the anal angle 
to the costal margin. 
UnpersipE does not differ except that there is a line of yellow on the costal 
margin at the base of the posterior wing. 
Expan. 33 in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of the Entomological Society. 
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