OF BRITISH HONDURAS


the hope of obtaining another specimen, but I did
not succeed in this. The insect is a great rarity.

9. HELICONIUS DORIS TRANSIENTS (Stgr).
 A charming insect which I have captured south
of Belize, but have never seen in the northern
districts.
 It is fairly common in the Toledo District and
as far as Belize. It is fond of flying rather high
in the air, floating with outstretched wings and
almost stationary in the still forest atmosphere.
 As far as this Colony is concerned the coloured
rays on the under-wings are always scarlet, but
I believe that in countries south of the Colony the
colour of the rays is altered to a bluish green.
This variety is known as H. viridis, and is the
common form there, the variety with red rays
being scarce or entirely absent. In the Colony,
on the other hand, the variety with red rays is
the only one found, but I have noticed that in
some of the specimens there is a bluish margin
to the red rays, more clearly defined in some
examples than in others.
 I have only taken the insect with green rays
once and that was close to Puerto Barrios in
Guatemala only a few miles south of the Colony
on the Atlantic Coast. Only one specimen was
seen and this was flying in company with the red
ones.