Z E O N I A Heliconides, 

 Zeonia Butterfly. 



Family Erycinidae. Sub-family Erycinse. Genus — ; Sub-genus 

 Zeonia. JVob. 



Sub-Generic Character. 



Wings trigonal, hyaline, the posterior ending in long tails; Palpi 

 very short, not projecting beyond the head; Antennae hairy, 

 with the club very small, but gradually thickening from the base 



Specific Charactkr. 



JVings hyaline ; the margins, and a common central band black 

 and opaque ; inferior wings two-tailed, with a red stripe at 

 the anal angle. 



No method is more calculated to demonstrate the existence 

 of that symbolical representation which reigns throughout 

 nature, than that of bringing before the eye of the student 

 a series of forms belonging to different families, but which 

 are disguised, under an outward appearance of general 

 similitude ; How few, even among professed entomologists, 

 would suspect that the present butterfly, and Leptocircus 

 heliconides, pi. 106, were of totally different families: looking 

 to their general aspect, as size, form, and colour, we should 

 even be tempted to place them in the same genus ; On closer 

 examination, however, we find that one is a genuine Papilio, 

 and the other an Erycina; That this fact may be placed 

 beyond all doubt, we have given magnified details of both 

 insects, which, from their great rarity, will be highly ac- 

 ceptable to the Entomologist. 



The specimen here figured is the only one we met with 

 in Brazil, nor have we seen the species in any other collec- 

 tion ; Excepting the black bands and the crimson spots, all 

 the wings are transparent ; the under surface being similar 

 to the upper. We possess the mutilated remains of a second 

 species ; but we know not to what natural genus they belong. 



Fig. 1 . Zeonia, wing. 2. Leptocircus, wing. 3. Zeonia; anterior foot, 

 with the claw more enlarged; 4. head and palpi in profile; 5. 

 Antennae. 



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