AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 323 



DESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICAN LEPIBOPTERA— NO. 3. 



BY A. E. GROTE and C. T. EOBIXSON. 



Family LYCAENIDAE. 



THECLA, Fabr. 

 Thecla inorata. n. sp. 



Thcdnfah'.fcr % Bdv. & Lee. (not Godt.), Plate 29. (18.^3.) 



Mad;. — Allied to Thecla lorata, G.k R. Head, black, eyes circled 

 narrowly with white ; antennae, black, annulate with white, the club 

 black. Body, above, black ; the abdomen is whitish beneath. Legs, 

 black, dotted with white; the lonuer scales are bluish 2;rey. 



Upper surface of wings of a uniform black or blackish, with a sub- 

 dued brassy green reflection, which becomes pronjinent in certain 

 lights, and is especially visible on the secondaries. An ovate paler 

 sexual spot on the disc of primaries. Secondaries with two very un- 

 equal tails, the lower the longer, edged with white. Base of the 

 fringes, from anal angle to the lower tail, white and at this place is 

 a narrow white terminal line. Between the tails, the fringes, which 

 elsewhere are dark, are tipped with white. 



Under surface somewhat paler than upper, brownish-black, with a 

 slight reflection. Two short whitish lines on the disc of primaries, 

 shaded inwardly with blackish. Beyond, an interrupted, extra discal, 

 semilunated, bluish white line, preceded by a band of interspaceal dark 

 shadings, of which the lino forms the outer margin ; the inner margia 

 of this band is also formed by pale scales, but these are usually im- 

 prominent. An arcuate, incomplete, subterminal, bluish white line, 

 edged outv\^ardly by blackish scales. A narrow, dark, terminal shade 

 on the margin. Secondaries with two short whitish lines on the disc, 

 as on primaries, but here the lines are longer. An extra discal band 

 formed by dark interspaceal shades, and edged on either side by semi- 

 lunated, bluish white lines, the exterior the stronger marked. This 

 band is irregularly macular; a detached spot is formed on the subcos- 

 tal interspace; on the interspaces between veins 1 and 3 (H-S.) two 

 elongated and inwardly arcuated, lunulated spots are formed. A lu- 

 nulated, subterminal, bluish white line, edging inwardly a broken black 

 line or series of reduced interspaceal black lunules; this line, inferiorly, 

 is also faintly edged externally with bluish white; along anal an^-le 



