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HELICONTA FLORA. 

 PLATE XII. Figs. 1 and 2. 



Godart.—Vs^. Flora, Cramer, PI. 257, fig. B, C 



The above plate affords examples of that division 

 of the Heliconian butterflies, in wliich the greater 

 proportion of the wings is denuded of scales and 

 transparent. H. Flora of Cramer very closely 

 resembles H. JEgh (Fabr.), and may possibly prove 

 a mere variety of that species. It expands nearly 

 two inches. The upper wings are black with two 

 transparent bands, that next the base very large, 

 lying parallel with the costa as far as the middle, 

 and then descending obliquely towards the posterior 

 angle, divided by a transverse black stripe, and a 

 longitudinal nervure of the same colour ; the second 

 band macular, and placed near the apex. The under 

 wings are transparent, the whole of the outer border 

 surrounded by a black stripe, which is divided 

 towards the angle by a fulvous line ; the nervures 

 black. Under side similar in design to the upper, 

 but the whole of the outer border of the wings sur- 

 rounded by a rust-coloured line, and the extreme 



