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Geronimo {Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (Trbtsch). — South America, from Peru and 

 Amazons valley to Guiana 2 and South Brazil. 



Compared with South-Brazilian specimens, the true P. jebus of Godart, Guatemalan 

 examples differ in having the anal lobe of the secondaries more rufous and beneath the 

 submarginal black spot of the secondaries as well as that of the anal angle lined 

 inwardly with the same colour, but the differences are hardly of specific value. 



As will be seen above, T. jebus is found throughout Tropical America, but as yet we 

 have seen specimens from Mexico and Guatemala only in our area. 



We have figured a male from Vera Paz, and a female from San Geronimo, Guatemala. 



7. T. brescia section. 



70. Thecla brescia. (Tab. Lin, figg. 8, 9 s , 10 $ .) 



Thecla brescia, Hew. Desc. Lye. p. 13; 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 119, t. 50. ff. 260, 261 \ 

 Thecla thoana, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 172, t. 67. f. 490 2 . 



Alis plumbeo-cseruleis ; anticis apice et margine externo fuscis, costa basin versus rubro marginata, stigmate ad 

 cellulse finem ; posticis fusco limbatis, macula iudistincta fusca submarginali inter ramos medianos, lobulo 

 anali puncto rubro : subtus pallide brunneis, linea diseali communi introrsum fusca extrorsum alba in posticis 

 fracta, linea altera submarginali fusca albo introrsum atomato, lobulo anali nigro, squamis paucis rubris 

 introrsum notato, juxta earn macula inter ramos medianos rubra puncto nigro, inter eos macula fusca albo 

 atomata. 



$ alis fuscis, posticis prsecipue ad angulum analem canescentibus, maculis duabus submarginalibus fuscis notatis : 

 subtus mari similis, sed alis pallidioribus et lineis omnibus magis distinctis. 



Hab. Mexico, 1 , Ciudad in Durango (Forrer), Jalapa (W. Schaus, Hbge), Cordova 

 (Eumeli), Oaxaca (Boucard); Guatemala, Polochic valley, San Geronimo (F. D. G. & 

 O. S.) ; Honduras (mus. Staudinger) ; Nicaragua (mus. Hewitson 2 ). 



Hewitson in describing this species suggests that it is perhaps only a variety of Thecla 

 stagira, but the brand of the primaries being single and not double sufficiently marks 

 its distinction. We have a good series of specimens both from Mexico and Guatemala. 

 Some of our Guatemalan specimens were taken at an elevation of 3000 feet in the 

 mountains. 



The type of T. thoana is a female, and hardly differs from our Guatemalan examples 

 of that sex attributed to T. brescia. Specimens from Jalapa are figured. 



71. Thecla orses, sp. d. (Tab. Lin. figg. 11, 12 e .) 



T. brescia similis et alis supra ejusdem coloris, sed anticis ad apicem latius fuscis : subtus maculis ad angulum 

 analem ochraceis baud rubris ut in specie citata. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



A single male specimen of this species, which we describe and figure, was taken by 

 Mr. Champion ; differs from T. brescia as pointed out above. We know nothing of the 

 female, which will probably be found to resemble that of the allied species, except Jas 

 regards the colour of the spots near the anal angle of the secondaries beneath. 



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