304 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
TABLE 1. 
Showing the Variations in Color of the “ Inner Rufous ” (Area 
I in Figures on Plate 4 ) of the fore icing in the Danaoid Heli- 
conidae. 
Genera. 
GO 
2 
o 
«H 
S3 
Translucent 
rufous. 
Translucent, 
slightly ru¬ 
fous. 
Transparent. 
Transparent, 
slightly yel¬ 
low. 
Translucent 
yellow. 
- 
Yellow. ! 
Black. 
Lycorea. 
5 
Ituna. 
2 
1 
Atliesis. 
2 
1 
Thyridia. 
5 
Atliyrtis. 
2 
Olyras . 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Eutresis. 
2 
Aprotopos .... 
1 
1 
Dircenna. 
1 
3 
4 
2 
1 
1 
Callithomia .... 
1 
2 
Epithomia. 
1 
1 
Ceratinia. 
28 
1 
2 
7 
1 
2 
Sais. 
5 
Scada . 
7 
Meclianitis .... 
18 
1 
1 
4 
Napeogenes .... 
7 
3 
2 
12 
3 
3 
Ithomia. 
29 
13 
15 
120 
26 
5 
3 
Aeria. 
4 
Melinaea. 
22 
2 
Tithorea. 
4 
6 
Total. 
124 
23 
23 
152 
30 
22 
1 
24 
Excluding Ithomia 
95 
10 
8 
32 
4 
17 
1 
21 
Note: The costal edge of the fore wing is usually black; it is rufous or brown, how¬ 
ever, in 47 Ithomias and dull yellow in one; it is rufous in two species of Sais, in one 
species of Ceratinia, and in one species of Atliesis. Hence it is black in 348 species and 
light colored in 52. 
