HELICONID®—ITHOMIA. 
Posterior wing narrow, and of unusual length, transparent, broadly bordered with 
black, except on the inner margin, with a submarginal row of white points. 
Unpersiwe. With the whole space which is black above, rufous. 
Exp. 24 in. Hab. Mexico. 
In the Collection of W. W. Saunders. 
ITHOMIA FIAMMETTA. 4. 
Urrersipg. Anterior wing black, with a large triangular space of orange at the 
base, followed by a triangular black spot, two small spots of a glossy, transparent, white, 
and a broad band across the wing of the same colour. Posterior wing transparent and 
glossy, broadly bordered (except at the base of the inner margin) with black. Both 
wings with a submarginal row of white points. 
UnpersipE. As above. 
Exp. 2,, in. Hab. South America. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
I bought this very beautiful and distinct species at a sale, and know not of what part of South 
America it is a native. By the nervures of the underwing it would come under Doubleday’s genus Sais ; 
I am unwilling to separate it from Ithomia. 
ITHOMIA THEA. 5. 
Urrrrsipr. Anterior wing black, with a large triangular space of orange at the base ; 
a large irregular spot of yellow beyond the middle deeply stnuated on the inner margin, 
dentated on the outer margin. Posterior wing orange, the margins (except the inner 
one near the base) and a belt near and parallel to them, black. Both wings with a sub- 
marginal row of white points. 
UNDERSIDE, as above. 
Exp. 2. in. Hab. River Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C, Hewitson. 
Nearly allied to N. Ninonia of Hubner. 
ITHOMIA TUTIA. 6: 
Uprersipg. Anterior wing with the base, and a space parallel to the imner margin 
rufous, marked with a triangular, and two round spots of black. The rest of the wing 
light black, crossed obliquely beyond the middle by an irregular belt of yellow, a semi- 
transparent space between it and the apex, the apex with three small points of yellow. 
Posterior wing rufous, with the margins, and a central transverse belt, black. 
Unversipr. As above, except that both wings have a submarginal row of white 
points. 
Exp. 2-4 inch. Hab. River Amazon. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
