HELICONID4®—HELICONIA. 
HELICONIA ZULEIKA. 10. 
Uprersipg. Anterior wing dark brown, with numerous unequal spots of pale 
yellow, arranged in four transverse, slightly-curved, parallel, equidistant bands. Base 
and inner margin of the wing to beyond the middle, rufous. Posterior wing rufous ; 
the outer margin, and a broad space at the apex which is marked with three small 
round spots of yellow (one indistinct), dark brown. 
Unpersipr as above, except that the outer margin of the posterior wing 1s 
marked with small square spots of white im pairs. 
Expan. 33% in. Hab. Nicaragua. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
This beautiful and very distinct species was accompanied by a Tithorea, which scarcely differs 
from it, except in shape; also by a Mechanitis, closely resembling it in general appearance, which I 
have given as an Ithomia by mistake at Fig. 21. 
