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1068/ Heliura fumata. (Plate XVII. fig. 20.) 



Helium fwmata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 169 (1912). 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown ; the sides of frons and 

 hark of head with white points, the tegulae at sides and shoulders 

 with crimson spots ; coxae with white spots, the mid and hind 

 femora white towards extremities ; abdomen black-brown with 

 sublateral series of white spots except towards extremities. Fore 

 wing - uniform dark choeolote-brown. Hind wing dark chocolate- 

 brown with white streak below middle of cell and patch on basal 

 half of inner area ; a small white spot beyond lower angle of cell. 



Sab. Ecuador, Pambilar (Fleiiuniny Sf Mikettd), type f <3 in 

 Coll. Rothschild ; Peru, Pozuzo, 1 § , Carabaya, R. Huacamayo, 

 La Union. Exp. 36-38 millim. 



*106Sy. Heliura umhrimacula. (Plate XVII. fig. 21.) 



Helium umhrimacula, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 191 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous tinged with olive-grey ; back of 

 head with two scarlet spots ; metathorax with yellow patch ; fore 

 coxae white in front ; abdomen black-brown with the four basal 

 segments ventrally white. Fore wing black-browm ; the veins 

 black; a small yellow spot at base; a broad whitish antemedial 

 band tinged with olive-brown from below costa to inner margin, 

 interrupted by the black veins ; a similar narrower postmedial 

 band from below costa to near termen at vein 3; a series of ill- 

 delined olive spots from below costa near apex to termen at vein -1. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the veins and a broad terminal band black 

 tinged with blue. 



Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, typef J in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*106S h. Heliura fulvipicta. (Plate XVII. fig. 22.) 



Heliura fid vipicta, Kaye, Entom. xliv. p. 149 (1911). 



cS . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey; 

 antennae with the shaft white above towards tips ; back of head 

 with two orange spots with some scarlet scales behind, the meta- 

 thorax with one spot; fore coxae witli white patches, the mid and 

 hind coxae with white spots ; abdomen black-brown shot with 

 metallic blue, the ventral surface with white bands on three basal 

 segments. Fore wing black-brown ; a small orange spot at base ; 

 the antemedial area with broad band formed of brownish grey 

 streaks in the interspaces ; a series of brownish grey spots in the 

 interspaces beyond the cell, bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 

 and inwards below vein 3 ; small brownish grey subterminal spots 

 from below vein 8 to below 5 and from below vein 3 to tornus. 

 Hind wing seiuihyalino white, the veins black, the terminal area 

 broadly black-brown. 



Hab. Be. til ian \, I'otaro R. (Robcr/s). type f J in Coll. Kaye. 

 Exp. 38 millim. Probably a variety of II. umhrimacula. 



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