HELICONIDE. 
ATHESIS ACRISIONE. 1. 
Athesis Acrisione, Hewitson. Equat. Lep. p. 12, 1869. 
Uprersips. Male, transparent rufous-white. Anterior wing with the costal 
margin to the middle, the inner margin which is broad, the outer margin which is 
narrow, a band at the middle of the cell, a band at the end of the cell, the three 
branches of the median nervure, and the median nervure between them all black: the 
apex and the costal and outer margins to their middle rufous-orange : two or three 
indistinct subapical black spots. Posterior wing with a broad band at the middle, 
the outer margin which is broad, and the nervures between them black: a submar- 
ginal series of twelve white spots. 
Unpers1Dz as above, except that the anterior wing has some small white spots 
at the apex and on the outer margin towards the anal angle, and that the costal 
margin of the posterior wing is yellow from the base to the middle, and rufous 
beyond. 
Female does not differ from the male. 
Exp. 33% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Villano, Buckley.) 
In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and W. W. Saunders. 
ATHESIS DERCYLLIDAS. 2, 3. 
¢ Dircenna Dercyllidas, Hewitson. Trans. Ent. Soc. 3 Ser. Vol. II. Plate 16, 
F. 4, p. 248. 
Uprrrsipe. Male, transparent rufous-white: the margins black. Anterior 
wing with the costal margin and the inner border of the inner margin which is broad, 
rufous : the nervures, a band at the end of the cell, a spot beyond it on the costal 
margin, a subapical band, a spot between the discoidal nervures and a spot on the 
outer margin between the median nervules all black. Posterior wing crossed 
obliquely from the inner margin to below the apex by a band of black, the nervures 
between this band and the outer margin broad and black. 
Unpersipz as above, except that the margins and bands are rufous and that 
the costal margin of the posterior wing is pale green interrupted below the middle 
by a black spot. 
Female as above, except that the anterior wing is much broader, the space 
between the second and third branches of the median nervule and the apex also black. 
Exp. 2y’9 inch. Hab. Ecuador. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
Published 1st January, 1872.] 
