10 EHOPALOCEEA. 



a, Interocular space covered with closely depressed scales with no hairs. 



(Species 1-8.) 



a'. Scales of interocular space directed upwards. (Species 1-3.) 



a". Scales of interocular space metallic. (Species 1, 2.) 



1. Thecla COronata. (Tab. XLVIII. figg. 7 ; 7 a, side view of head, enlarged ; 



7 b, base of costa, enlarged ; 8 <$ , 9 2 .) 



Thecla coronata, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 70, t. 27. ff. 3-5 \ 



<S alis nitide cyaneis, ad basin viridescentibus, marginibus externis nigrescentibus, ciliis albis ; posticis angulo 

 anali nigro, maculis duabus cyaneis ornatis : subtus fuscis viridi-aureo irroratis, fascia communi nigra 

 intus griseo marginata, ad marginem posticarum internum bisinuata ; posticis fascia lata castaneo-brunnea, 

 intus griseo atomata, fascia nigra extus attingente. Fronte, linea pone oculos, coxis extus nitide viridi- 

 aureis ; tibiis et tarsis albis, nigro cinctis. 



$ mari similis ; alis anticis magis rotundatis, dimidio distali et posticarum angulo apicali nigricantibus, plagis 

 duabus et angulo posticarum anali eoccineis. 



Hab. Guatemala, forests of northern Vera Paz (0. S. & F. D. G. 1 ) ; Nicaragua, Chon- 

 tales (Belt, Janson) ; Panama, Veraguas (Arce). — Colombia 1 ; Ecuadok. 



Though this species has a general resemblance to Thecla regalis, there are many 

 points of difference, the most noticeable being the frontal protuberance, the transverse 

 hair-like scales of the costa, and the absence in the male of the red spots at the anal 

 angle of the secondaries ; beneath, the black line is margined with grey on the inside 

 instead of the outside, and on the secondaries it is contiguous to the chocolate band 

 instead of being divided from it by a green line. 



The first male specimen of this beautiful species was captured in the forest between 

 Coban and San Luis, in the department of Peten, in the month of March 1862 ; it was 

 sitting on a leaf on which a ray of sunshine rested. A female was previously in the 

 British Museum from Colombia, and a few others have since reached us from Nicaragua 

 and the State of Panama ; it has also been traced to Eastern Ecuador, where the 

 botanical collector Pearce met with it at Canelos and Buckley at Banos. 



The type of the male from Guatemala is figured with a female from Chontales, 

 Nicaragua. 



2. Thecla teresina. (Tab. xlviii. figg. 10, 14 4 , 11 $ .) 



Eucharia ganymedes, Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 14 1 (?). 



Thecla teresina, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 209, t. 84. ff. 707, 708 2 . 



J alis nitide cyaneis fusco tenuiter marginatis, ciliis albis ; posticis macula anali parva rubra : subtus viridibus, 

 anticis dimidio inferiore eserulescente, macula ultra ceHulam elongata nigra, extrorsum albo limbata, altera 

 exteriore indistincta, margin e externo nigro introrsum albo limbato ; posticis fascia transversa alba introrsum 

 nigro marginata, ad marginem internum profunde serrata, fascia lata bipartita nigra et extra earn altera 

 castanea utrinque albo atomata, margine externo sicut in alis anticis. 



$ mari similis, sed margine externo multo latius nigricante, macula coccinea anali majore ; subtus dimidio 

 anticarum inferiore griseo-fusco baud caeruleo. 



