NO. 3552 GENUS CALYCOPIS — FIELD 15 



Calycopis xeneta (Hewitson), new combination 



Figures 8, 2Qh, 107, 108, 117, 118 



Thecla xeneta Hewitson, 1877, Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, 



vol. 1, p. 193; vol. 2, pi. 77, figs, (d^) 611, 612. 

 Thecla devia Moschler, Schaus [not Moschler, a misidentification], 1920, Ent. 



News, vol. 31, p. 176. 



Male (figs. 107, 108, 117, 118).— Both forewing and hindwing with 

 outer margms more nearly straight than in the other species of the 

 genus. Forewing more distinctly purplish blue than in any other 

 species and this blue lighter and more brilliant in color. Hindwing 

 with a very narrow black outer border. Wings underneath much 

 darker, being a smoky brown and with red markmgs very faint or 

 lacking and red color replaced by dark brown or black. I divide this 

 species into two subspecies (see below). 



Length of forewing 9-14 mm. 



Male genitalia, as illustrated by figure 8, with aedeagus distinctly 

 curved upward before apex and with apex directed downward; both 

 saccus and harpe in lateral view very short but with saccus over one- 

 half length of aedeagus; vinculum bent greatly to the rear; elements of 

 uncus quite similar to bactra and torqueor in having lower margin short 

 with lower distal angle small and with distal margin nearly straight; 

 harpes in lateral view blunt at apices, in ventral view very broad near 

 middle, being almost as broad as long; gnathos with a short ridgelike 

 carina on inner surface well forward from distal end. 



Female. — Unknown in both subspecies described below. 



Distribution. — Guatemala south into Costa Rica and French 

 Guiana, British Guiana, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay. 



Calycopis xeneta xeneta (Hewitson) 



Figures 8, 20/i, 107, 108 



Male (figs. 107, 108). — This subspecies differs from C. xeneta devia 

 (see below) in having the ground color a pale gray on the undersur- 

 faces, with a dark cloudlike spot in the central area of both forewing 

 and hindwing and a pale area above and below vein 2dA on forewing. 



Length of fore^ving 12-14 mm. 



Male genitalia as described above in the description of the species. 



TYPE-LOCALiTY.^Department of Chontales, Nicaragua. 



Additional type data. — Described from at least two males as 

 He\vitson mentions Brazil and Nicaragua for the range of his xeneta. 

 The male labeled type in the Hewitson collection in the British Mu- 

 seum (Natural History) is the specimen from Nicaragua. It bears the 

 labels "BM Type No. Rh. 899," and genitalia preparation number 

 "BM 1951-491." I designate this specimen as the lectotype of xeneta. 



