20 EHOPALOCEEA. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Bumeli), Jalapa (Hbge, H. Bdvmrds) ; Guatemala, Polochic 

 valley (Hague); Panama, Chiriqui, Ghitra (Arce), David (Champion). — South America, 

 Venezuela to Guiana 3 and South Brazil 2 . 



This beautiful species enjoys a wide range, extending from Southern Mexico to 

 Guiana, but we have seen no specimens from the valley of the Amazons. It appears 

 to be everywhere a scarce insect, as but few specimens have reached us from any one 

 locality. The only female we have seen is one lent us by Dr. Staudinger ; on the 

 underside it differs widely from the male, this being mainly due to the absence of the 

 bright blue patch on the primaries of the latter, a sexual character in very many species 

 of Thecla. 



19. Thecla inachus. (Tab. XLIX. figg. 14, 15 1 , 16 $ .) 



Papilio inachus, Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 36. D \ 



Olynthus inachus, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 80. 



c? alis viridescente-caeruleis, marginibus externis fuscis, anticis stigmate duplici ad cellulse finem : subtus fusces- 

 centibus, anticis ad basin medialiter viridescentibus, ramo costali ad basin nigro et prope basin macula alba, 

 costa parte proxima coccinea, fascia ultra cellulam et maculis duabus intra earn intus nigricantibus, extus 

 albis ; posticis parte proxima coccinea macula magna nigra inter ramos costalem et subcostalem, infra albido" 

 circumcincta, fasciola ad cellulse finem, altera margini interno subparallela, tertia ad angulum analem 

 nigris omnibus albido marginatis. 



$ alis fuscis, ad basin sordide viridescentibus, aliter mari similis. 



Hob. Panama, Chiriqui (Bibbe), Chitra, Calobre (Arce). — Eastern Peru ; Amazons ; 

 Guiana. 



A species by no means abundant in South America, but widely spread from Guiana 

 to the base of the Andes. From the State of Panama we have a few specimens, though 

 Mr. Champion did not meet with it. From Guatemala we have but a single female 

 specimen, but Dr. Staudinger has lent us a male from the same country. The figures 

 represent a male from Chitra and a female from Calobre. 



20. Thecla carpophora. (Tab. XLIX. fig. 17 $ .) 



Thecla carpophora, Hew. Descr. Thecla, p. 16; 111. Diurn. Lep. pp. 116, 182, t. 47. ff. 221, 222, 



t. 72. f. 547 \ 



T. inaeM persimilis, sed subtus colore coccineo ad alarum bases purpureo suffuso, macula nigra, posticarum ad 

 basin multo minore et puncto supra earn in costa ipsa alba, forsan distinguenda. 



Hob. Mexico 1 (Mus. Brit) ; Guatemala, Polochic valley (F. B. G. & 0. S.). 



This is evidently a northern form of T. inachus, of which there are two specimens, 

 said to be from Mexico, in the Hewitson collection in the British Museum, a male and 

 a female. We have also a female example from Guatemala, which we now figure. In 

 the State of Panama the true T. inachus occurs. 



