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Guatemala and one of two males from Mexico ; we have also a female from the 

 neighbourhood of Santa Marta in Colombia. Though evidently allied to T. caranus, 

 T. neora can readily be distinguished by the greater restriction of the blue on the 

 primaries of the males in both sexes and by the paucity of the spots towards the base 

 of the wings beneath. Our males are in poor condition and we are unable to detect the 

 presence of the tuft of hairs on the secondaries beneath, characteristic of this section ; 

 but we place T. neora here from its resemblance in colour to T. caranus. 



d'. Anal angle of secondaries undivided. (Species 30-209.) 

 h". Frontal scales directed upwards. (Species 30-32.) 



30. Thecla OCeia, sp. n. (Tab. L. figg. 23 $ , 24, 25 6 .) 

 Mithras desdemona, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 356 (nee Hew.) 1 . 



T. laothoe valde similis, sed alarum marginibus externis nigricantibus multo angustioribus ; posticis subtus 

 quoque ut videtur minus nigricantibus. 



Eab. Costa Rica (Van Patten 1 ), Irazu, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 



This species is apparently allied to T. viridicans of Felder, but has the black margin of 

 the primaries of the male much narrower and the colour bluer. It is also allied to 

 T. laothoe, from which, indeed, we have some hesitation in separating it, but the narrower 

 margin to the wings coupled with the less extent of the black margins to the white lines 

 beneath in the neighbourhood of the anal angle, and the whiter fringe, and the different 

 habitat of the insect seem to justify separation. 



Mr. Rogers obtained a good series of specimens in the interior of Costa Rica, others 

 were obtained by Van Patten. These latter appear to have passed for T. barajo in 

 Messrs. Butler and Druce's list of his collection. The specimens figured are from Irazu. 



31. Thecla laothoe, sp. n. (Tab. L. figg. 26, 27 6 .) 



T. barajo similis, sed squamis frontalibus aliter positis, alarum marginibus externis multo latioribus, ciliis 

 fuscescentibus ; posticis subtus ad angulum analem multo magis nigricantibus, plaga sericea posticarum 

 nulla primo visu distinguenda. 



Hal. Guatemala, Polochic valley (Hague), Purula, Senahu (Champion). 



Allied to T. viridicans, Felder, but differing in the much bluer shade of the wings y 

 which is as dark as that of T. barajo ; the black margin of the primaries is narrower, 

 and the secondaries beneath are much blacker towards the anal angle. 



At first sight and in the distribution of the white bands this species resembles 

 T. barajo ; but the male may at once be distinguished by the absence of the silky 

 patch on the upper surface of the secondaries, and other characters. 



Mr. Champion captured several specimens of T. laothoe in the valley of the Polochic 

 biol. cente.-amer., Rhopal., Vol. II., May 1887. e 



