THECLA I. 



THECLA LAETA. 1—4. 



Tliecia Ixfa, Edwards, S , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliil. 18G2. 9 , Thecla ClotUlde, Edw. Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Phil. 1863. 



Male. Expands .9 inch. 



U2)per side black ; near base of primaries a few scales of deej) metallic blue ; 

 nest anal angle of secondaries a band of same color, which extends halfway along 

 the hind margin, many of the scales being replaced by black ; beyond this band a 

 fine line of blue scales follows the margin to outer angle ; anal angle edged with 

 red ; frinije grev. 



Under side of secondaries and apex and costal margin of j^rimaries slate blue • 

 with a green reflection ; costal edge of primaries red ; disk of same wings smoke 

 color; beyond the cell, on costal margin, a transverse, abbreviated series of five 

 small red spots, edged posteriorly with white, the last two obscured by the smoky 

 hue of the disk. 



Secondaries have two series of red spots parallel to the hind margin ; those of 

 the exterior small and towards the outer angle minute, each more or less surrounded 

 by a delicate white border, in which are a few black scales ; the inner series creeses 

 the middle of the wing, is sinuous, the spots large, brighter red and crescent 

 shaped, bordered 2">osteriorly with white in which are a few black scales ; edge of 

 the wing at anal angle and at the intersection of the adjoining nervures red; thorax 

 and abdomen above black, beneath white ; legs and antennte annulated white and 

 black ; paljji white ; club black, red at tip. 



Female. Expands 1.1 inch. 



Uijper side black ; the base of primaries, and inner margin for two-thirds its 

 length, and all of secondaries, except the costa, dark metallic blue. Under side 

 greenish-grey, losing the green tinge on inner margin of primaries ; in addition 

 to the five spots on disk of male are two blackish, rather indistinct spots, below the 

 others, nearer the base. 



Canada ; Maine ; West Virginia, 



The male of Iceta originally described was one of two taken near London, 

 Canada, by Mr. Saunders in 1861. In Ai)ril of the present year (18(38) at Coal- 

 burgh, Kanawha Co. W. Ya., I was called by a laborer to look at a " fly " in a post 

 hole that he was digging beneath a hop vine, which " fly " he supposed he had 

 brought to light in his operations. I took the insect between thumb and finger, 



