heliuha. 483 



it ; an irregular band from costa before apex to vein 5 ; a subter- 

 minal series of spots and a terminal series of points on the veins. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and the terminal area broadly and 

 irregularly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. Amazons, Santarem {Bates), 1 S type. E.vp. 28 millim. 



1067. Heliura rhodophila. 



EiK-erea rhodophila, Wlk. vii. 1638 (1S5(;) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. 

 Heliiira pyrrhoAoma, Butl. .lourn. Liun. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418 (1876); 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. ii. pi. 72. f. 19; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 

 Heliura solkauda, Butl. Jouru. liim. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418; id. 111. Het. 



i. p. 44, pi. 9. f. .4 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 164. 



J . Head and thorax dull black ; palpi reddish at base ; back of 

 head with two reddish marks ; shoulders, patagia, and metathorax 

 with ochreous marks ; cosse and femora ochreous ; abdomen crimson, 

 the 1st segment black, the next three with pale lateral patches ; 

 lateral black lines and the terminal segment black. Fore wing 



whitish ; the veins si reaked 

 with red ; some black spots 

 on costa ; a black j^atch at 

 base of inner area ; a spot 

 at middle of cell and ante- 

 ^^^ medial spots on each side of 



vein 1 ; a black bar across 

 Fig. ^Ql .—Heliura rhodophila, d" . \. end of cell, two spots beyond 



the cell and three beyond 

 lower angle, with two spots below them in submedian interspace and 

 one above vein 2 ; a postmedial series of spots between costa and 

 vein 5, and a terminal series. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and the 

 terminal area broadly and irregularly fuscous black. 

 $ . Abdomen without the whitish lateral patches. 

 Hah. Honduras, 1 S , type soUcauda ; Costa Eica( Underwood), 2 $ , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll ; Ajfazons, Para (Bates), 1 cT , type pyrrJwsoma. 

 Exp. 38 millim. Typef from Amazons in Mus. Oxon. 



* 1068. Heliura hecale. 



Adytia hecale, Schaiis, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 277 ; id. Am. Lep. pi. i. f. 18. 



5 . Black-brown ; back of head with paired crimson spots ; coxas 

 crimson ; abdomen with lateral metallic blue patches. Fore wing 

 with slight semihyaline patches in, below, and beyond end of cell, 

 leaving a rounded discoidal patch. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins broadly black ; the terminal band expanding towards 

 tornus. 



Hah. Peru. Exp. 42 millim. Type f in Coll. Schaus. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with tbe tornus not produced and without tuft of 

 hair. 



A. Fore wing yellowish white with black spots. 



a. Abdomen with the terminal segments crimson, with 



dorsal black spots thyshe. 



h. Abdomen with the dorsal .segments black pier us. 



B. Fore wing hyaline with black margins mnquipalpia. 



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