ITHOMIIN^E. 29 



This species has not been figured before. It is found in 

 Misori Island, N.W. New Guinea, and appears to be the same 

 as T. ovages (Godman and Salvin), from the Solomon Islands. 

 It differs from the other described species of the genus in 

 having the white band on the hind-wings more or less broken 

 into spots. 



NOTE. The genera Lycorea and I tuna of Doubleday, which are confined 

 to Tropical America, and which were formerly placed in the Heliconiidie y 

 when this name was used as a family to include the Heliconiiiue^ IthomiuKz, 

 &c., are now usually classed with the Danaina. They are large long- 

 winged insects, measuring about five inches across the wings. The species 

 of Lycorea are black and tawny, with yellowish spots towards the apex of 

 the fore-wings ; those of Ituna are black, with marginal yellowish spots, or 

 are sub-hyaline, with black bands and nervures. Some of them much re- 

 semble species of true Heliconius, &c. 



SUB-FAMILY II. ITHOMIIN^). 



Egg Not yet described. 



Larva. Smooth or slightly warty, but without fleshy appen- 

 dages, feeding chiefly on Solanacetz. 



Pupa. Short, convex, sometimes nearly as broad as long, 

 metallic. 



Imago. Usually of moderate size; wings long, slender, 

 rounded, often thinly clothed with scales or entirely transparent, 

 except on the borders and at the end of the cell j wing-cells 

 closed. Sub-median nervure of fore-wings forked at the base. 

 Antennae long and slender ; male without raised scales, but 

 with a tuft of hairs below the sub-costal nervure of the hind 

 wings (see Plate vii., fig. 3) ; female with the front tarsi long 

 and slender. Abdomen with tufts of hair at the extremity in 

 the male, and sometimes also in the female. 



Range. Entirely confined to Tropical America, if we ex- 

 clude Telkruo from the Sub-family. 



