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occurs in several other si^ecies of Heliconidae, found in that locality — a curious result of pe- 

 culiar local conditions. Cramer figures a slight variety as the c? of the species (fig. A). 



3. Lycorea Halia, Hlibner. 

 Eueides Halia, Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. 



Eound in company with L. Ceres and L. Fasinuntia at Para. As I have before 

 remarked, this is the form of Lycorea which prevails in S.E. Brazil. A variety, found 

 also at Para, connects it with L. Ceres, the chief Guianian form, and suggests the 

 conclusion that both the extreme local races or species were one and the same at not a 

 very distant period of time. 



4. Lycorea atergatis, Doubleday. 



L. atergatis. Doubled, and Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 16. f. 1. 



The figure here quoted was made from a Venezuelan specimen. I did not find the 

 species on the Lower Amazons ; but it was the most abundant form of the genus at Ega, 

 on the upper river. Many of the individuals there occurring, however, form a strongly 

 marked variety, in which the ground-colour is dark brown, suffused more or less with 

 blackish. Eurther to the west of Ega, this variety is the prevailing form. 



Genus Ituna, Doubleday. 



Doubled, and Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 113. 

 The species of this genus, like those of Lycorea, seem to be all geographical forms of 

 one only. But in this instance the segregation of races is complete, whilst in Lycorea 

 we have seen it to be in many of the forms only in process. Three Itimce are known : 

 one, I. Lamyra, Latr., occurs in New Granada ; the second, I. Ilione, Cram., inhabits 

 Guiana and, I believe, Brazil, along the Atlantic coast ; the third, L Fhenarete, Dbld., is 

 peculiar to Bolivia and the Upper Amazons. All three are tolerably distinct in colours 

 and markings. 



Ituna Ph^narete, Doubleday. 



/. Phtenarete, Dbld. and Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. pi. 17- f- 1- 



I met with one example only, at Tabatinga, Upper Amazons. 



Genus Methona, Doubleday. 



Dbld. and Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 115. 

 This genus, which is so closely allied to the following {Thyridia) that the species of 

 both have always been confounded, is distinguished from it by structural characters, viz. 

 the neuration of the hind wings and the form of the male fore legs, which are of great 

 systematic importance in another part of this family, but here can scarcely be considered 

 even of generic value. The internal (abdominal) nervure of the hind wing is long, and 



