HELICONIDE. 
MECHANITIS. II. 
MECHANITIS MAELUS. 6. 9. 
Urrrrsipz. Female, fig. 9, black. Anterior wing with the costal nervure, the 
median nervure and its first branch, a spot at its termination, a band (which having 
its origin on the costal margin), joins it; all brick-red; followed by a zig-zag band of 
pale yellow, by a band of brick-red, by three spots (one bifid) of pale yellow near the 
apex, and lastly, by a submarginal band of bifid brick-red spots. A spot of pale 
yellow at the anal angle. Posterior wing with a band on the costal margin from the 
base to the apex, where it is jomed by a second longitudinal band; two linear spots 
near the outer margin, and some of the nervures all brick-red ; a black spot near the 
apex. 
UNDERSIDE as above. 
Variety, fig. 6, with the red bands much brighter, the pale-yellow spots near the 
apex absent, the larger bifid spot near the costal margin represented by two minute 
spots; the pale-yellow spot at the anal angle absent. The posterior wing from the 
second band to the outer margin marked by a band of oblong spots from the anal 
angle to the middle of the wing. The outer margin marked at the terminus of each 
nervule with a minute black spot. The underside as above. 
Expan. 34 in. Hab. Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
MECHANITIS MAINIUS. 7. 
Uprrrsipe. Male black. Anterior wing with the costal and median nervures 
from the base to their junction with a band of the same colour, which crosses the wing 
at the middle, brick-red. The said band marked by a triangular black spot, and _fol- 
lowed (touching it) by a band of pale yellow. The margins of the two bands, where 
they meet, marked by three black spots common to both. Posterior wing with two 
longitudinal bands, two spots at the apex and part of the nervures brick-red. The 
first band, which commences on the inner margin near the base, and runs near the 
costal margin, ends above one of the spots at the apex. The second band is central 
and short. 
UnpERSIDE as above, except that the red spots at the apex of the posterior wing 
are united, and the second band is extended to the inner margin. 
Expan. 3,% in. Hab. Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
