_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Two small white spots on the neck. Eyes, thorax, and abdomen black. Wings perfectly transparent, the lower part of the posterior beautiful carmine-red; close to the upper corner of these wings is a round black spot encircled with yellow, and a small white one on its edge; another white one, very minute, is also situated just below it, which is barely discernible. _Under Side._ Palpi white. Breast and abdomen grey. Wings are exactly the same as on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire. {53}HELICONIA SAPPHO. Plate XXXVIII. fig. 4. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Heliconiidæ, _Swainson_. GENUS. HELICONIA, _Latr. God._ Papilio (Helicon.), _Fabr._ HELICONIA SAPPHO. Alis oblongis, supra atro coeruleis infrà nigris; anticis utrinque fasciâ transversâ bifidâ; posticis margine exteriori albis, his subtùs basi sanguineo radiatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Hel. Parn.) Sapho, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 165. _No._ 511. _Stoll Suppl. Cramer_, _pl._ 30. 2. _&_ 2. B. _Herbst. Pap._ _tab._ 75. _f._ 7. HABITAT: "Jamaica, Mr. Shakespear, 1779" (_Drury's_ MSS.). _Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Eyes brown. Thorax and abdomen black. Wings mazarine blue; the anterior ones having a white band crossing them from the middle of the anterior edges to the lower corners; the posterior edged with a white border, intersected by the blue tendons of the wings. _Under Side._ Palpi grey. Breast and abdomen black, streaked with white. Wings black where they are blue on the upper side, with the same white markings; but next the body are adorned with beautiful red streaks, ending in points resembling rays issuing from it. Margins of the wings entire. PLATE XXXIX. [Illustration] EREBUS ZENOBIA. Plate XXXIX. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Noctuidæ, _Stephens_. GENUS. EREBUS, _Latr._ Thysania, _Dalm._ Noctua p., _Fabr._ EREBUS ZENOBIA. Alis cinereis strigis dentatis et undulatis fuscis et brunneis variegatis, subtùs ferrugineis nigro-undatis. (Expans. Alar. 5 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Phalæna (Bombyx) Zenobia, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Cramer?_ _tab._ 115. A. B. Noctua Zenobia, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 2. _p._ 8. _No._ 1. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2529. 969. _Oliv. Enc. Méth._ 8. _p._ 251. 1. HABITAT: "Jamaica, Mr. Kenchan, 1775" (_Drury's_ MSS.).