HELICONID&. 
MECHANITIS. Fabricius. 
MECHANITIS MENAPIS, 1. 
UprrrsipE. Female, black. Anterior wimg with a small space of orange at 
the base (more or less distinct); an oblique band before the middle, narrow and 
yellow where it crosses the cell, broad and orange below it ; followed by three oblong 
spots of yellow, two in the form of a second oblique band, the third across the 
apex. Posterior wing with the base broadly orange. Both wings with a submar- 
ginal row of minute white spots. 
Unpersive as above, with the submarginal spots more distinct. 
The Male has the wings longer in proportion to their breadth. 
Expan. 23% im. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
MECHANITIS MENOPHILUS, 2, 3. 
Uprersipe (fig. 3). Male, orange. Anterior wing from the base to beyond 
the middle orange, followed by and united to a broad oblique band of pale 
ellow, dentated or sinuated on its outer edge. The margins (the immer margin 
broad), from the base to the middle; a triangular spot within the cell; four spots 
(one on the yellow) at the middle of the wing; sometimes a fifth (a small one) 
on the costal margin; and the apex; black. Posterior wing with two macular longi- 
tudinal bands of black from the inner margin to beyond the middle. 
UnpersibDE as above, except that the posterior wing has the costal margin at the 
base yellow, and a line and spot of black also near the base. 
The Female differs only in being without the yellow at the base of the posterior 
wing on the underside. 
Expan. 23% to 334 im. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
This species varies greatly in size. Fig. 2, though a female, does not mark a sexual distinction, 
but one to which several of the Heliconidz are subject. A male in my collection is similarly 
coloured with black, and is larger than the same sex at fig. 3. 
