156 Mr. Butler's Descriptions of 



The aliove species evidently comes near to T. CujMnna, 

 but the secondaries of that insect are described as " pre- 

 cisely as in T. Harmonia ; " it is parallel to Mdincua Etlira, 

 Godt {H. Phasis, Feld.) 



13. Tithorca Efjaensis, n. sj). 



Differs from the Lower Amazon type of T. Harmonia in 

 the almost ferruginous tint of the base of primaries, and 

 the whole of secondaries, also in the greater w^idth of all 

 the black bars, the somewhat wider yellow belt of primaries 

 and the minuteness of the white marginal spots below : 

 expanse of wings, S 2 inches, 8 lines, ? 3 inches. 



Ega {Bates). B.M. 



14. Tithorca Paronii [Boisduval ]\IS.] 



S, ? . Allied to T. Bonplandii ; above black; a streak 

 above median nervure of primaries, a spot below it, divided 

 by the first median branch, and a broad band across cell of 

 secondaries subhyaline sulphur-yellow ; primaries witli 

 three or four spots beyond cell, five towards apex and one 

 near anal angle suldiyaline white ; secondaries with costa 

 and base pale brown ; a discal series of twelve subhyaline 

 white spots: body as in T . Bonplandii ; primaries below 

 with eight discal and thirteen submarginal cream-coloured 

 spots, between which is a waved streak of dull orange ; a 

 spot of dull orange half way between cell and apex ; other- 

 wise as above ; secondaries with discal series of spots as 

 above and a submarginal series of sixteen cream-coloured 

 spots, between which two series is an irregular macular 

 dull orange band; a series of eight dull orange spots 

 between central yellow band and discal series of spots ; a 

 svdphur-yellow subcostal streak at base : ex[)anse of wings, 

 3 inches, 1 line. 



* Panama, Central America {Bclclicr). B.M. 



A common insect, mimicked by Heliconius Peruvianus 

 of Felder, a species which doubtless has a tolerably wide 



Fioiii the voyagu. of the Herald. 



