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minal striae. The width of the yelhnv rliscal band is ratlier variable, all transitions oecurring connecting it 



with flavescens. Guayana, Aniazonas and Colombia. — mimulinus Bilr. from Colombia refers to specimens minmUnus. 



which above resemble icallacei. but show less intense blue iridescence and have the yellow cell-spot within the 



band nearly square. — elsa Riff- resembles wallacei. but has the liands white instead of yellow. Surinam, eha. 



— ab. parvimaculata Riff, refers to specimens of flavescens having the discal band divided into spots l)y the black parvima- 



veins. — In colon Weym. the discal band is only indicated bv two small white spots. — All the forms of chitia f"'"'"- '. 



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belong, whereever they occur at all, to the commonest butterflies; they are met with on' broad forest-roads, 

 nearly always in company with similarly coloured forms of other groups, as Heliconius antiochus, sara or leiica- 

 f/tff, from which they cannot be distinguished on the wing; but besides the genus Heliconius no other mimics 

 or their models are found. u. 



( -.-, H. sapplio has, like the preceding, the upper surface suffused with a deep blue lustre ; forewings with 



one broad, or two narrower, white, somewhat translucent, transverse bands, leuce Dbl. (= sappho Hhn.) (77 e). leuce. 

 On the forewing the band broadly white, interrupted on the discocellular vein by a black tooth-like bar and 

 by a similar projection from the termen between the median nervules. The hindwings have only the apex and fringe 

 faintly white. Central America, especially Honduras; generally found together with H. galanthus (74 d) which it 

 greatly resembles above. On the wing the species cannot be told from one another; but galanthus has on the 

 under surface of the hindwings a number of discal arches, leuce some large red basal spots only separated by the 

 veins. The nearest allied form eleusinus Stgr. (77 e) from West-Colombia is above black, not steel-blue; the eleminus. 

 black spot at the end of the cell is nearly met by a black tooth from the termen at the middle, almost dividing 

 the white patch into two. — In priniularis Btlr. (77 e) from Ecuador this division is complete, tiie two compo- primiilaria. 

 nent spots being widely separatrd; hindwing with broadly white-3'ellow terminal border almost reaching the 

 middle of the wing. — In eleuchia Hew. (77 e) from Colombia the terminal Ijorder of the hiiulwing is clear white; ekuchia. 

 on the forewing the discal portion of the transverse spot, which is likewise cut into two, is narrower. Ecuador, 

 common in the plaines, taken by Haensch as high up as 2500 ft. — sapho Drury, the name-tj^ae, has on the sapho. 

 forewing only one band, which is broadly white, at the costa divided by the black discocellular spot, slightly 

 curved inwards toward the anal angle, leaving the termen black. From Colombia and Ecuador; not scarce. 



H. hewitsoni Sfgr. from Chiriqui (Costa Rica) is a copy of H. ■pachinus (74 f) which flies in the same hewitsoni. 

 locality. Forewing with 2 oblique yellow bands, hindwing with only one curved band placed at about 5 mm. 

 from the termen. Differs from pachinus in that the discal band crosses the cell at the end, whereas in pachinus 

 it passes beyond it. 



H. congener Weym. ( = paranapurae Stgr. ) exactly copies wallacei, sara, apseudes etc. ; like these, the upper rongcner. 

 surface is black, the inner half of both wings suffused with a bright lustre of steel-blue. May be distinguished 

 from all these by the sulphur-yellow discal band, which on either side is quite irregularly bounded by fine 

 teeth and lunules of the black ground-colour. Ecuador and Peru, ascending to above 3000 ft. 



H. antiochus L. (= araneides (S'^grr.) (77 f) ranges nearly over the entire North of the South-American anliochus. 

 continent; the type is found in Guayana and Amazonas as far as Peru. Above black with blue iridescence, 

 with two white transverse bands and a yellow streak on the median vein. Hindwings with a red wedge- 

 shaped subcostal streak underneath. — ab. alba Riff. (77 f) very closely resembles the name-type, but on the alha. 

 forewing the bands are less pointed at the ends, and the yellow median streak is absent. — aranea F. has on aranea. 

 the forewing the bands paler yellow; — zobeida Btlr. (= divisus Stgr.) has the white discal band interrupted zoheida. 

 on the median vein. — ocannensis Stich. (= ocannus Stich.). Like zoheida, but the bands yellow instead of ocannendx. 

 white; North Colombia. — A rather different appearance has salvinii Deir. from the Orinoco. Forewing tialvinii. 

 as in antiochus, but the hindwing with a yellow band similar to that of phyllis, chesterfoni and many other 

 Heliconids. 



H. leucadia resembles the preceding, but with very brillant lustre of blue above; the subapical band 

 much shorter, the oblique discal spot not extending beyond the lower median nervule, frequently composed 

 of only two spots, one large, placed above the nredian, the other below it in cell 2. — pseudorhea Stgr. (77 f), pseudorliea. 

 from Amazonas, Ecuador and Bolivia, has the hindwings quite dark. — leucadia Bat. (!omes from Ecuador and leucadia. 

 the Upi)er Amazon. Hindwing with rather large white terminal spots. 



H. sara F. (= magdalena Bat., rhea Btlr. and Druce) (17 f). \'ery much lilce the ))receding species, but ^ara. 

 the discal band of the forewings narrower, more pointed at either end. Hindwings with numerous red basal dots 

 underneath. From Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. — ab. albimaculata Stgr. from Colombia has on the dlbimacu- 

 forewing the bands white, not pale yellow as in tj'pical sara. — apseudes Hbn. (= sara Luc.) (77 f), which is the '"'""^ 

 commonest species coming to Europe from Southern Brazil, where it may be seen even in the gardens of Rio 

 de Janeiro, has the discal band sulphur-yellow, and nearly twice as wide as in sara. — In albula Riff, from aVnila. 

 La Guayra this band is of the same width as in apseudes, but white. ■ — • breviniaculata Stgr. has the subapical brevimacu- 

 and shorter and th? disca' baud divid-^d into two. From tlie Rio Dagua (Colombia). — sprucei Bat. (78 a) ''''"• . 



