collectedly W.J. Bttrchell in Brazil. 83 L 



under u IL Thelxiope var" the two specimens caught on 



7. 6. 29. (See 1302-3,; 



8. 12. 29. = 1313. "Insylva." Paid. 



Westwood's list agrees except tor the differences above 

 alluded to. Opposite to the list of dates he wrote: " Hetic. 

 Thr[/]aiope : alis post. fasc. obliqua fusca ad marg. anal, 

 extensa $ & ? ." In the same place he thus describes a 

 variation of the above : " Thelxiope variaf. macula postica 

 obliterata." It is evident that by " macula postica obliterata " 

 Westwood referred to the " Var. without detached spot " 

 mentioned under 1304. 



Heliconius nanna nanna, Stich. 



Heliconius nanna of Stichel (I. c), but here distinguished 



from the following subspecies, II. nanna burchelli. 



6. 12. 25. <J = 1314. Rio de Janeiro. " On the Corcovado 



Mountain." u In an excursion to the Summit of the 



Corcovado by the road by the Convent of S 13 . Theresa 



and along the Aqueduct." The Cat. pi. Braz. MSS. 



contains the following full account of the localities in 



which Burchell collected, Dec. 6th, 1825 (the catalogue 



numbers of the botanical specimens are omitted) : "On 



the Corcovado Mountain. On the Summit, and in the 



Forest which clothes the highest part of the Mountain . . . 



Along the more open part of the road, from the forests to 



the head of the Aqueduct . . . Along the upper end of 



the Aqueduct, as far as the spot where the road crosses 



it to the northern side, and where the collection of 



15. 9. 25 ended ..." * 



There is no trace of a yellow spot at the end of or above 



the fore wing cell. 



Heliconius nanna burchelli, Poulton l . 



2. 3. 29. <J = 1315. Porto Real. The male type of the 

 subspecies. " Papilio. The brown winged (Florta) 

 with a red patch on the upper wings, is always found 



1 \_Heliconius nanna burchelli, subsp. n. When studying Burchell's 

 Heliconiinae wiih the author of this memoir, I observed that the single 

 specimen (1314) of H. nanna, Stich., from Rio, where Burchell took 

 large numbers of H. erato phyllis. differed from the five individuals 

 (131 5-1 319) taken by him to the north-west of the area in which he 

 captured the species last named. 



In the single specimen of nanna from Rio, the lower hind marginal 

 border of the oblique red bar, forming the most conspicuous feature of the 

 fore wing upper surface, is produced into two well-marked projections or 



