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HELIURA, Butler. 
Heliura solicauda. (Plate IX. fig. 4.) 
Hcliura solicauda, Buthr, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 418. n. 8 (1876). ■ 
Euchromia (Eucereeon) tetragramma, var. /3, Walker, Gat. Lej). Het. i. p. 268 (1854). 
Wings pearly white : primaries black-spotted at the base, an irregular central black 
baud, made up of congregated black spots ; the apex black ; veins of the male testaceous, 
reddish in part, of the female cream-colour ; the outer margin and an apical submarginal 
transverse line, whitish : secondaries with the veins and outer border black in the male, brown 
in the female. Head and thorax coloured like the primaries ; abdomen scarlet, basal seg- 
ments in the male pink at the sides ; anus black. Wings below black -brown, leaving the 
pearly areas as above; pectus brown; trochanters and femora ochraceous, tinted with pink; 
venter rose-red, with a black line on each side. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
Honduras [Dyson). 
Heliura gnoma, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) 
Primaries blackish brown, veins slightly paler : secondaries hyaline white ; the veins and 
a broad outer border black, shot with blue ; abdominal margin with a broad sandy whitish 
brush of hairs. Body black-brown ; frons white-spotted ; back of head and collar spotted 
with scarlet; proximal half of abdomen almost covered by a large metallic green patch. 
Body below brown ; head whitish ; trochanters of first pair of legs, sides of femora and tibiae, 
and a large basal patch on the venter, white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 
Rio Padaniry (an affluent of the Rio Negro), under the equator, taken 26th June, 1874 
(/. W. H. Trail). 
Heliura lamia, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 3.) 
Primaries of male smoky brown, of female olive-brown : secondaries hyaline white ; the 
veins and a broad outer border black-brown ; abdominal margin of the male with a slender 
sandy whitish brush of hairs. Body brown, darkest in the male ; frons white-spotted ; back 
of head and collar spotted with scarlet ; abdomen, excepting the base and anus, metallic green. 
Body below brown ; head whitish ; trochanters of first pair of legs scarlet ; underside of 
femora and tibiae and an interrupted stripe on each side of the venter, white. Expanse of 
wings 6 1 inch 4 lines, $ 1 inch 3 lines. 
S . Rio Mauhes, 5° 30' S., 29th April, 1874 ; ? . Tanaria, Rio Purus, 1st October, 1874. 
(./. W. H. Trail). 
The female is represented on the Plate. 
