550 Mr. W. J. Kaye’s additions and corrections to 
Subfamily HELICONINAE. 
HELICONIUS NUMATA NUMATA. 
Heliconius numatus numatus, Stichel, Gen. Ins., Fasc. 
37, p. 10. 
Heliconius numata, Cram., Pap. Ex., vol. 4, p. 17, 
fC. 180? p.20l (1782), 
Range. GUIANA. 
Sir Gilbert Carter took a specimen of this species at the 
Pitch Lake. It agrees with the form named guwiensis by 
Riffarth. 
HELICONIUS ETHILLA METALILIS. 
Heliconius metalilis, Butl., Cist. Ent., 1, p. 167 (1873). 
Heliconius ethilla metalilis, Stichel, Gen. Ins., Fasc. 37, 
p-,43. 
Heliconius eucoma metalilis, Riff., Berl. Int. Zeit., vol. 46, 
p. 43; Gatt. Helie., vol. 2, p. 19. 
Heliconius metabilis, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., 
p. 722 (1877). 
In September 1906 Mr. P. L. Guppy, jun., caught at 
Blanchisseuse on the northern shore of the Island, a 
specimen of this subspecies that has its home in the main- 
land in Venezuela and Colombia. Metalilis, however, can, 
in Trinidad, only be regarded as an aberration of ethalla, 
such a dark form being of very rare occurrence, although 
intermediate specimens are less rarely taken. 
Range. VENEZUELA; COLOMBIA. 
[25. HELICONIUS MELPOMENE. | 
Since the publication of the Trinidad Catalogue in 1904, 
it has become less and less certain about the occurrence of 
true melpomene, until it seems necessary to remove the 
species from the list. The specimens originally thought 
to be this species have proved to be large specimens of 
Heliconius amaryllis euryades. It is very probable, how- 
ever, that amaryllis and melpomene will one day be proved 
to be one variable species. H. amaryllis ewryades runs 
exceedingly close to H. melpomene melpomene, and the 
genitalia are scarcely separable. 
