560 MR, H. W. BATES ON THE HELICONIDE LEPIDOPTERA 
Para, and north coast of the island of Maraj6. Dr. Eelder descrihes it as a species, 
from specimens received from the Upper Rio Negro. 
Var. 2. H. Vicinus, Menetries, Cat. d. 1. Coll. de l'Ac. Imp. de St. Petersbourg, p. 114. 
In this variety the yellow macular belt is placed close to the end of the cell ; the spots 
are much elongated, and form, with the yellow spot within the end of the cell, a large 
compact macular patch. 
Para and Upper Amazons. Neither of these varieties shows a tendency to become 
local, or separate itself from the parent form. 
14. Heliconius Estrella 
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same 
2 . Size, shape, and colour of H. Thelxiope : markings of the hind wing nearly the 
as in H. Vesta. Fore wing : above, black, the basal third reddish carmine ; the 
nervures bordered with black ; a narrow macular belt, consisting of six light yellow spots 
crosses the wing much beyond the end of the cell, nearly reaching the 2nd medial 
branch. Beneath, the same, except that the red at the base of the wing is scarcely 
shown . 
Hind wing : above, black ; the centre of the cell and six narrow streaks radiating froni 
the base, and running between the nervures, but not reaching the margin, reddish N 
carmine ; the second streak from the abdominal edge has a black mark near the base. 
Beneath, the same, except that the cell has simply two red streaks, that there is a round 
red spot between the median and abdominal nervures, and that the costa is yellow at the 
base. 
Body differently marked from H. Thelxiope, the thorax being black, with six distinct 
rounded yellowish spots and two transverse lines behind. 
This form seems to be intermediate between H. Melpomene and H. Vesta. It agrees 
with the latter in the design of the hind wings, but the shape and colour of the wings are 
different from it. In H. Vesta the shade of red is always inclining to orange, whilst in 
S. Estrella it is of the same crimson tint as in H. Melpomene and Thelxiope. This 
is most perceptible in living specimens. I look upon H. Estrella as a race, or a variety 
tending to become a race, equivalent to H. Thelxiope and H. Vesta, and to have segregated 
from the common stock, independently of the other forms. 
I met with it only in the Delta lands of the Amazons ; at Para ; and on the northern 
coast of the island of Maraj6. 
15. Heliconius Vesta, Cramer. 
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Papilio Vesta, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 119. f. A. 
This species is very abundant, and widely distributed, being found at Surinam; 
Cayenne ; along the whole course of the Amazons, up to the Andes ; in Bolivia, and at 
Cuenca, to the west of the Cordillera. It is further removed than H. Thelxiope from 
H. Melpomene, differing from both in colour and in the shape of the hind wings, their 
outer margin being less rounded : the yellow marks of the thorax are the same as 
those of H. Estrella. The yellow spots of the fore wing vary in the same way as in 
H. Thelxiope. 
