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HELICONIA FLORA. 
PLATE XII. Figs. 1 and 2. 
Godart Pap. Flora, Cramer, PI. 257, fig. B, C 
The above plate affords examples of that division 
of the Heliconian butterflies, in which the greater 
proportion of the wings is denuded of scales and 
transparent. H. Flora of Cramer very closely 
resembles H. TEgle (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 
