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brown 'and irrorated with dead silver ; primaries witli outer 

 margin and an oblique streak to apex silver ; secondaries with 

 a submarginal scries of five silver dots near anal angle : legs 

 and ])alpi below pej^per-and-salt colour. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 



Hub. Bugaba, Veragua, and Bogota [Lindig). Type, coll. 

 Druce. 



There is an example of this species in the collection of 

 the British IMuseum from Bogota. The species is allied to 

 P. xenocrates, but much smaller, the primaries above being 

 more like P. jjsammis. 



3. Paphia rutilans, n. sp. 



Wings above glossy magenta-red, with blue reflections ; 

 primaries with apical half from basal third of costa to external 

 angle sepia-brown, partly shot with blue, crossed near apex 

 by a short, irregular, oblique magenta band (not reaching costa 

 or outer margin) ; a lunulatcd dark brown bar from third 

 median branch at its basal third to third iifth of submedian 

 nervure ; secondaries with costa, apex, a lunate spot near 

 apex, and outer margin sepia-brown ; abdominal area pale 

 brown ; body olive-brown : wings below red-brown, hatched 

 all over with grey, clouded, spotted, and banded with dark 

 brown, as in P. centaurus ; secondaries with four minute 

 white anal subraarginal dots : body whity brown, speckled 

 with red-brown. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Hah. Pucartambo, Peru (TFA/^e/?/). Type, B.M. 



Coloured much like P. centaurus^ but more like P. ryphea 

 in form, size, and pattern. 



Subfamily HeliconinjEj Bates. 

 Genus Heliconius, Fabricius. 

 4. Heliconius clarescens, n. sp. 



Closely allied to //. telchinia, but differing in the restriction 

 of the discoidal black streak of primaries to a short oblique 

 spot above the origin of the first median branch, the absence 

 of the internal streak, the yellow tint at termination of the 

 fulvous area, and the absence of the black elliptical band of 

 secondaries ; wings below with the same differences. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 



Hab. Bugaba, Veragua. Type, coll. Druce. 



Probably a mimic of Mechanitis macrinus. 



