156 Mr. W. C. Hewitson on new Diurnal Lcpidoptera. 



Posterior wing orange, with the base, the outer margin, and the nervures 

 as they approach it, black. 



Underside as above, except that it is much lighter, that the outer 

 margin of the posterior wing is rufous, and that both wings have a band 

 of small white spots (in pairs on the posterior wing) near the outer 

 margin. 



Exp. 2{- inch. 

 Hob. New Granada. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



3. Eiieides TJicdes, var. (Plate X. fig. 3.) 



Upperside (Female) black. Anterior wing with four oblong spots of 

 orange at the base, crossed at the middle by a large irregular spot of pale 

 j r ellow divided into four by the nervures, one part within the cell. 

 Posterior wing with a line of orange at the base, and, branching from it 

 and following the course of the nervures, several unfinished lines of the 

 same colour. The outer margin towards the anal angle with some minute 

 white spots. 



Underside as above, except that the orange spots at the base of tho 

 wing are smaller, that there are some minute spots near the anal angle, 

 that the posterior wing is almost without the orange line at the base, and 

 that there are two bands of minute white spots, in pairs, near the outer 

 margin. 



Exp. 2-/L inch. 

 Hah. New Granada. In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



If a butterfly or a genus resemble another (though placed, sy- 

 stematically, at a distance from it), let it be in colour or in form, it 

 may be expected to resemble it in other characteristics. 



The Heliconidoe are notable for their liability to vary. Certain 

 species of Lejptalis scarcely differ in general appearance from some of 

 the Ithomiie. Other species resemble the Heliconida) in the strange 

 varieties into which they run. At first sight, Eueides Tliales and 

 Heliconia Vesta appear to be almost identical. A variety of H. Vesta 

 scarcely differs from the insect now figured as a variety of E. Thales. 

 A second variety of H. Vesta is so close an imitation of Eueides 

 Eanes, fig. 1 of the Plate, that I believed it only a second variety of 

 E. Tliales until I noticed a difference in the position of the discoidal 

 nervures of the posterior wing, as well as in the orange rays which 

 proceed from the base of the posterior wing. 



LxMANoroDA, Westwood. 

 1. Lymanopoda Lecena, n, s. (Plate IX. fig. 1.) 



Upperside dark brown from the base to the middle, rufous-brown 

 eyond. 



