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from the costa to the second branch of the median nervure. 
Underside paler, the posterior wings yellowish, the nervures 
and a line between them sooty. Antenne black. 
Hab. Apolobamba, Northern Bolivia (Pearce). 
Mus. 8. & G. 
8. Heliconius notabilis. 
9. Exp. 3:1. Dark sooty black ; anterior wings with two 
conspicuous white spots—one (quadrate) at the extremity of 
the cell, the other (oval) between the cell and the apex; the 
margins of these spots and a large patch contiguous to the 
inner one, and reaching to beyond the first branch of the 
median nervure, brick-red. Underside paler, the red spot only 
showing a pinkish tinge; the basal half of the costa of the 
posterior wings yellow ; four red spots at the base of the pos- 
terior wings. Antenne black. 
Hab. Canelos, Eastern Ecuador (Pearce). 
Mus. 8. & G. 
Allied to H. Xenoclea, Hew., but differs in having the spots 
of the anterior wings white and red, instead of red orange. 
9. Hueides lineata. 
gd. Exp. 2°4. Black; anterior wings with a broad arched 
band from the base, widening towards the outer margin and 
posterior angle, tawny orange; an oblique curved band, di- 
vided by the radial nervures, occupying the central portion 
of the apex, reaches to the costa; hind wings with the 
whole central portion tawny orange, the black margin extend- 
ing almost to the cell along the nervules, and to a less distance 
between them. Underside red brown intermingled with yel- 
lowish about the apical third of the anterior wings: posterior 
wings having the nervules dark, a red-brown longitudinal 
mark between them, the base yellowish, and a row of thirteen 
white spots close to the outer margin. Antenne black, a row 
of lateral white spots on the abdomen, and four on the head. 
9. Larger and paler. 
' Hab. Guatemala, valley of the Polochic (H. Haque). 
Mus. 8. & G. 
10. Hresia mesta. 
Exp. 2°55. Grey, both wings bordered with brownish 
black, the nervures being of the same colour ; apex of the an- 
terior wings with a row of four submarginal white spots ; pos- 
terior wings with five white spots round the anterior angle 
and outer margin; a patch of tawny yellow along the inner 
margin and anal angle. Underside paler, the tawny patch 
more apparent, the base of the costa of the posterior wing 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. ii. 0) 
