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HEIICONIA DIAPHANA. 

 PLATE XII. Fig. 3. 



Godart Pap. Diaphana, Fabr., Cramer, PI. 231, fig. C, and 



PI. 315, fig. D, E.— Drury's Exot. Insects, ii. PI. 7, fig. 3. 



About the size of the preceding, but the wings 

 narrower and wholly transparent, with the outer 

 margin and nervures brownish-black. On the upper 

 wings, rather beyond the middle, there is a black 

 abbreviated transverse band, placed somewhat ob- 

 liquely, and preceded by a small white spot on the 

 costa. On the under side the marginal band is not 

 so dark as above, and there is frequently a series of 

 small white spots on the hinder edge of the posterior 

 wings ; in the latter also, the anterior edge is tinged 

 with sulphur yellow. Body black above and grey 

 beneath, with white points on the head; antennse 

 black. 



The marginal band varies in breadth, and in the 

 secondary wings it is sometimes longitudinally di- 

 vided by a narrow line of rust-red. 



Occurs in Jamaica, Brazil, Virginia, &c. 



