308 AMATIDU. 



*1068 i. Heliura elongata. (Plate XVII. fig. 23.) 



Helium elongata, Roths. Nov. Zo«l. xix. p. 168' (1912). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown tinged with 

 metallic blue ; antennae white at tips ; the back of head with two 

 yellow spots, the base of patagia and prothorax with grey marks, 

 the metathorax with yellow spot; coxa? with white spots, the 

 ventral surface of abdomen with white bands on basal half, the 

 anal tuft white at tip. Fore wing dark reddish brown ; a yellow spot 

 at base of costa ; a broad antemedial greyish band formed by patches 

 in the interspaces ; a greyish mark below end of cell ; a postmedial 

 series of rather elongate greyish spots in the interspaces, excurved 

 below vein 5 and ending at tornus ; slight subterminal greyish 

 marks between veins S and 5. Hind wing black-brown, the cell 

 and basal half of submedian interspace and inner area hyaline. 



Ab. 1. The whole back of head orange, the tegulfe greyer ; 

 abdomen with orange intersegmental lateral bar behind segment 4 

 visible on one side only. 



Sab. Venezuela, Caura 11., La Vuelta (Klages), type f 6 in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Maripa. Exp. 36 millim. 



1069 a. Heliura zonata. (Plate XVII. fig. 24.) 



Heliura zonata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 464 (1905). 



3 . Head blackish, the back of head yellow, a crimson ring 

 ' round neck ; thorax grey, the patagia edged with black, a yellow 

 patch on metathorax; legs whitish and black; abdomen crimson. 

 the anal segment black, a lateral black stripe. Fore wing white, 

 the veins and streak in submedian fold brown, the medial part of 

 inner area tinged with ochreous ; a diffused oblique blackish sub- 

 basal band ; an indistinct curved antemedial line ; a small spot in 

 middle of cell with mark on costa above it ; a large lunulate 

 discoidal patch from costa to vein 1 with a slight oblique line from 

 it to inner margin and large patch connecting it with tornus ; 

 apical area fuscous with small grey spots on it, its inner edge 

 angled outwards at vein 5. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 veins dark, the termen fuscous expanding into large patches at apex 

 and tornus. 



Hub. Venezuela, Caura Valley {Klages), 10 d 1 . Exp. 30-32 

 millim. 



1069 b. Heliura balia, Hmpsn., trans, from Euccreon, no. 10S6. 



1069 c. Heliura baliodes, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 25.) 



9 . Head and thorax black, the vertex of head brownish white 

 with black spot, the tegulse brownish white except at tips with 



