HELICONIDE. 
HELICONIA. IV. 
TITHOREA TARRICINA. 1. 
Uprrrsipg. Male dark brown. Anterior wing with eleven small yellow spots. 
Three spots in a line transversely at the middle ; three in a line obliquely beyond the 
middle ; two near the apex; two near the outer margin, one between each of the 
transverse lines of spots, and one (a minute one) near the middle of the costal margin. 
Posterior wing brick red, the costal margin (sometimes to near the middle of the wing), 
a lunular spot near it beyond its middle, and the outer margin dark brown. Some 
spots of yellow (sometimes a broad band) divide the red of the wing from the brown 
of the outer margin. 
UnprERSIDE as above, except that both wings have a row of white spots parallel 
to the outer margin, that the anterior wing has a twelfth spot between the first and 
second macular bands (sometimes visible on “the upperside), and that the costal margin 
of the posterior wing has its base orange and two small white spots beyond “its 
middle. 
The female differs only in size. 
Expan. 3,9 in. to 33% in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Ghiltetons of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
HELICONIA HECUBA. 11. 
HT. Hecuba, Boisduval, Ms. 
Uprrrsipe blue-black. Anterior wing with an indistinct line of white from the 
base outwards. A spot of white between the median nervules; three bifid spots 
obliquely across the middle; four ina line across the apex, and eight irregularly placed 
in pairs near the outer margin, all white. Posterior wing with a transverse band of 
yellow near the middle, divided by the nervures, and several spots of white in pairs 
near the outer margin. 
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