44 ARCTIID.E. 



HELIURA, Butler. 



Heliura solicauda. (Plate IX. fig. 4.) 



Heliura solicauda, Butler, Jburn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418. n. S (1876). 

 Euchromia (Eucereeon) tetragramma, var. j3, Walker, Cat. Leji. Het. i. p. 2G8 (1S54). 



Wings pearly white : primaries black-spotted at the base, an irregular central black 

 band, made up of congregated black spots ; the apex black ; veins of the male testaceous, 

 reddish in part, of the female cream-colour ; the outer margin and an apical submarginal 

 transverse line, whitish : secondaries with the veins and outer border black in the male, brown 

 in the female. Head and thorax coloured like the primaries ; abdomen scarlet, basal seg- 

 ments in the male pink at the sides ; anus black. Wings below black -brown, leaving the 

 pearly areas as above ; pectus brown ; trochanters and femora ochraceous, tinted with pink ; 

 venter rose-red, with a black line on each side. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Honduras (Dyson). 



Heliura gnouia, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) 



Primaries blackish brown, veins slightly paler : secondai'ies hyaline white ; the veins and 

 a broad outer border black, shot with blue ; abdominal margin with a broad sandy whitish 

 brush of hairs. Body black-brown ; frons white-spotted ; back of head and collar spotted 

 with scarlet ; proximal half of abdomen almost covered by a large metallic green patch. 

 Body below brown ; head whitish ; trochanters of first pair of legs, sides of femora and tibiae, 

 and a large basal patch on the venter, white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 



Rio Padaniry (an affluent of the Rio Negro), under the equator, taken 26th June, 1874 

 {J. IV. H. Trail). 



Heliura lamia, u. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 3.) 



Primaries of male smoky brown, of female olive-brown : secondaries hyaline white ; the 

 veins and a broad outer border black-brown ; abdominal margin of the male with a slender 

 Bandy whitish brush of hairs. Body brown, darkest in the male; frons white-spotted; back 

 of head and collar spotted with scarlet ; abdomen, excepting the base and anus, metallic green. 

 Body below brown ; head whitish ; trochanters of first pair of legs scarlet ; underside of 

 femora and tibite and an interrupted stripe on each side of the venter, white. Expanse of 

 wings 6 1 inch 1 lines, 2 1 hich 3 lines. 



S . Rio Mauhcs, 5° 30' S., 29th April, 1874 ; ? . Tauaria, Rio Purus, 1st October, 187 1, 

 ./. //'. II. Trail). 



The female is represented on the Plate. 



