414 Messrs. J. J. Joicey and W. J. Kaye on 



edge as far as vein 4 with yellow. A yellow spot is also on the 

 inner edge of the band between veins 2 and 3. A large conspicuous 

 squarish yellow patch within the cell just beyond the middle. 

 Hind-wing black as in typical melpomene. 



Habitat. French Guiana, Nouveau Chantier. 



Type in coll. Joicey. 



This form is figured in Seitz under the name of lucia, 

 Cram., but Cramer's figure shows a different form with a 

 broader red band, and without yellow on the inner edge 

 except for a little spot near costa. There is also a curious 

 small yellow mark at the base of the fore-wing in Cramer's 

 figure, which is a characteristic of true lucia. This short 

 yellow streak is doubtless the residuum of the red basal 

 streak present in all cybele forms. Seitz probably copied 

 the error of identification of lucia from Riffarth, who was 

 evidently unacquainted with Cramer's figures on PI. 350. 



Heliconius melpomene melpomene ab. primus, no v. 

 (Plate CVII, fig. 1.) 



Fore-wing like melpomene, except for a conspicuous trapezoidal 

 yellow blotch in the cell slightly beyond the middle, and contiguous 

 with the inner margin of the red transverse band, which is almost 

 the same as in typical melpomene. 



Habitat. French Guiana, St. Jean de Maroni. 



Type in coll. Joicey. 



This fine form is reminiscent of the Bolivian aberrational 

 form aphrodyte, except that primus has the red and yellow 

 sharply defined, while in aphrodyte the colours coalesce. 

 In primus also the red band is considerably wider. 



Heliconius melpomene melpomene ab. melpina, nov. 



Fore-wing black, with a group of yellow spots arranged as in 

 thelxiope, edged externally with a narrow red band from costa to 

 vein 3. Hind-wing black. 



Habitat. French Guiana, St. Laurent. 



Type in coll. Joicey. 



This form is the equivalent of faustina, but with a black 

 hind-wing. 



Of the 125 specimens with a totally black hind- wing 

 there is a complete transition between melpomene and 



