HELICONID &. 
ITHOMIA. Audner. 
ITHOMIA ONEGA. 1. 
UprerstpE deep black. Anterior wing with a triangular spot at the base, an oblong 
one across the cell,a band obliquely across the wing beyond the middle, and a small spot 
within the lower end of the same, transparent white, tinged with purple. Posterior wing 
with a horizontal, transparent belt, which occupies the whole of the inner margin. 
UNDERSIDE as above, except that the anterior wing has a rufous line parallel to the 
outer margin, and a similar line of the same colour surrounds the posterior wing except on 
the inner margin, and that both wings have three or more dots of white on the apical 
margin. 
Expan. 2; in. Hab. River Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA ILLINISSA. 2. 
Urrersipe. Anterior wing dark brown, with a large triangular rufous patch at the 
base, cut in two by the median nervure, and six transparent spots, one oblong within the 
cell, two (one double) half way between it and the apex near the costa; one (double) 
oblong near the apex, and two between it and the anal angle, white or tinged with purple. 
Posterior wing rufous, the margin and a line parallel to it dark brown. 
UnpersipeE. As above, except that there are three or four dots of white at the 
apical angle of both wings, and that the submarginal black line passes round the 
posterior wing except on the inner margin. 
Expan. 2 in. Hab. Amazon. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA SAREPTA. 3. 
Urrersipe. Anterior wing with the basal half transparent-rufous, bordered with 
black. The apical half crossed obliquely by a broad orange band, also bordered with 
black, except on the costal margin ; the apex with three or four indistinct transparent 
dots. Posterior wing transparent with the nervures strong and black, the outer margin 
broadly black with central belt of orange. 
Expan. 1° in. Hab. Amazon. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. B 
