

MELLISUGINiE. 



azureus IAcht. ; Azara, No. 293.?; T. splendidus Vieill.} ; T. 

 lucidus Shaw. 



36. H. sapphirina (Gmel.) Boie, Ois. dor. t. 35. 58., Less. Ois. 

 Mouch. t. 55. 57., Troch. t. 15., Nat. Libr. xiv. pi. 28. — Trochi- 

 lus fulvifrons Lath. ? ; Type of Hyloeharis Boie (1831). 



37. H. lactea (Less.) Ois. Mouch. t. 56. 



38. H. Grayii (De Lattr. & Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1846. p. 307. 

 3Q. H. simila (Bourc). 



40. H. cyanogenys (Pr. Max.) Edwards's Birds, pi. 360. f. 1. — 

 Trochilus viridissimus var. /3. Lath. ; Ornismya Wiedii Less. Ois. 

 Mouch. Suppl. t. 26. 



41. H. viridigaster (Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 103., Ann. 

 Sci. Phys. &c. Lyon, 1843. p. 42. 



42. H. Maria (Bourc. & Muls.) Ann. Sci. &c. de Lyon, 184 . 

 p. . 



43. H. chrysogaster (Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 101., Ann. 

 Sci. Phys. &c. Lyon, 1843. p. 40. 



44. H. Caroli (Bourc.) Proc. Z. S. 1S47. p. 48. 



45. H. versicolor (Licht.) Erman, Verz. von Thier und Pflanz. 

 p. 3. t. 1. f. 1, 2, 3. 



46. H. prasina (Less.) Ois. Mouch. t 65., Nat. Libr. xiv. 

 pi. 8. 



47. H. atala (Less.) Troch. t. 42. 



48. H. Portmanni (Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 2., Ann. Sci. 

 Phys. &c. de Lyon, 1843. p. 39. 



49. H. ? cyanocephala (MoL). 



Heliothhix Boie.* 



Bill rather long, stout and straight, with the culmen keeled, the sides sloping, and much compressed 

 for one third of its length from the tip, which is acute ; the gonys long, and very slightly advancing 

 upwards to the tip ; the nostrils basal, and concealed by the frontal plumes. Wings long and pointed, 

 with the first quill the longest. Tail long, broad, and truncated, with the sides rounded. Tarsi very 

 short, and slender. Toes long and slender, with the lateral ones united at the base, especially the outer 

 toe, which is longer than the inner ; the hind toe long, slender, and armed with a short curved claw. 



The species are inhabitants of the central and warmer portions of America. 



1. H. auritus (Gmel.) Briss. Orn. iii. t. 37. f. 3., Ois. dor. t. 25, 

 26., Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 977., Less. Ois. Mouch. t. 10., Swains. 

 B. of Braz. pi. 29. 



2. H. nigrotis (Less.) Ois. Mouch. t. 11. 



3 H. auriculatus (Licht.) Erman, Verz. von Thier. und Pflanz. 

 p. 5. t. 2. f. 1, 2. — Ornismya Pouchetii Less. Zool. (1841.) p. 72. 



4. H. Barroti (Bourc.) Rev. Zool. 1843. p. 72., Ann. Sci. Phys. 

 &c. Lyon, 1843. p. 48. t. 4. 



* This division was originally established under the French name of Les Jacobines, by M. Lesson, in 1 829 i but I have adopted the above 

 name, proposed by M. Boie in 1831, as more appropriate as a generic name. 



December, 1848. 



