HELICONIDA—ITHOMIA. 
ITHOMIA STELLA. 82. 
Uprrrsipr. Male and Female: transparent white ; the margins (except the inner 
margins from the base to the middle) and the nervures from the middle black; the 
base tinted with orange; the outer margins with a line of oval white spots. Anterior 
wing with a large spot in the cell and the end of the cell black ; divided into spots 
beyond the middle by a cloud of neutral colour. Posterior wing with a black spot at 
the end of the cell. 
UnpERSIDE as above. 
Expan. 1585. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA MERGELENA. | 53. 
Uprrrsipr. Male and Female: anterior wing black, the base orange ; a spot at 
the end of the cell (within it), two spots between it and the outer margin, and a curved 
band across beyond the middle, transparent yellow. Posterior wing transparent 
yellow; a broad outer margin, and a quadrate projection from it, black ; each wing 
with a submarginal hne of seven yellow spots. 
Unperstnz as above, except that the costal margin of the posterior wing is black. 
Expan. 2335 in. Hab. New Granada. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
ITHOMIA VIRGINIA. 54. 
I. Virginia. Boisd. MS. 
Uprrrsipr. Male: anterior wing, from the base to beyond the middle (except 
the margins, which are black), brick-red ; the rest black, with nine white spots: two 
(very small) within the cell, one near the anal angle, three forming an oblique band 
across the wing beyond the middle, one at the apex, and two smaller ones a little 
below it near the outer margm. Posterior wing brick-red; the apex (which has two 
white spots) and part of the outer margin black. 
Unprrsipx entirely brick-red, with the spots as above. Posterior wing with 
three white spots at the apex. 
Expan. 234 m. Hab. Mexico. 
In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval. 
This species is at first sight as much like Leptalis as Ithomia, and forms another link between two 
closely-connected genera. 
