THECLA II, 



THECLA ONTAKIO. 1—2. 



Tliecla Ontario, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 209, 1869. 



Male. Expands 1.1 inch. 



Upj^er side dark brown, color of T. Acadica ; on costal margin of jjrimaries a 

 large smooth oval spot ; secondaries have a single tail and a very slight projection 

 at extremity of second median nervule ; from the base of the tail a faint white line 

 extends along the margin to anal angle ; at this angle a few scales of fulvous ; be- 

 tween the first and second median ner\-ules an indistinct marginal dark spot above 

 which are a few fulvous scales in crescent form ; tail black, tipped with white ; fringe 

 of both wings fuscous, next before the tail white, beyond it, black at extremity, 

 white next the margin. 



Under side uniform light brown, color of T. Calanus, Westw. {falacer of Godart 

 and Harris); across the disk of priraai'ies a nearly straight, narrow band of dark 

 spots, slight! V edged without by white ; this band is continuous except that the two 

 sjjots in the second and third metlian interspaces are somewhat lunulate and separa- 

 ted ; jjarallel to the margin is a second band of faint spots, of dark brown, nearly 

 obsolete at each extremity ; on the inner edge of the three or four middle and most 

 distinct of these spots are a few white scales. 



Secondaries have a discal row of spots like those of primaries, but separated, 

 forming a nearly straight line (the two middle spots only being outside the line) 

 from the costa to a point just above the black space that surmounts the bluej^atch, 

 then turning towards abdominal margin in a zigzag course forming the letter W, 

 the last limb of which is long and reaches the exti'eme mars-in ; hind margin edsed 

 by a fine whitish line and bordered by a row of S2)ots occupying the interspaces, 

 each of which is edged above with a curved black line on which is a second bluish- 

 white line; the four spots next apex almost obsolete, merely showing a darker 

 tinge than the ground color, and on these the black crescents are not distinct and 

 the white line is represented by a few scales only ; the fifth spot a shade darker than 

 the preceding and edged above with a narrow jiatch of orange-red ; the sixth 

 black with a broad red arch between it and the black line ; beyond the tail a large 

 patch of blue scales on a l)lack ground which it does not wholly cover, leaving 

 above the blue a small black spot on which are a few red scales ; at the angle a 

 rounded black spot narrowly edged above with white, between which and the black 

 and white lines, which here are not crescent, is a red space. 



Body above fuscous ; beneath, abdomen ashy-brown, thorax blue-grev ; legs 



