262 ^^^ BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



102. Thecla Wittfeldii, Edw. 



Expanse of wings from 1.5 to 1.7 inches. 



Male. — Upper surface black-brown ; fore wings have 

 d large oval stigma; hind wings have the edge of the 

 hind or outer margin on posterior half pure metallic 

 blue ; a large fulvous spot in second median interspace 

 over a black spot on the margin ; two tails, the posterior 

 one very long, measuring .24 of an inch on the anterior 

 side, the other .1 of an inch ; black tipped with white. 

 Fringes of fore wings fuscous, of hind wings the same 

 to the upper median venule, then white, and next anal 

 angle long, brown, with a whitish line running through 

 them. 



Under side dark brown, the outer margins narrowly 

 edged with white; the costal edge of the fore wings 

 next the base red. Both wings are crossed by two 

 macular white lines, the outer one submarginal, nearly 

 parallel to the margin, and quite regular, broken at the 

 venules, crenated on posterior half of hind wings, and 

 ending in an oblique streak up the inner margin ; each 

 spot edged with black on outer side, and on fore wings, 

 in the median interspaces, there is more or less fulvous 

 outside the black. On the hind wings is a large spot 

 on the margin below the lower median venule, made 

 by blue-white scales on the brown ground ; in the next 

 interspace are three deep red fulvous spots, diminishing 

 gradually in size, the outer one sometimes obsolete, the 

 largest with a black patch on its marginal side. Anal 

 angle black, overlaid on inner margin by white and a red 

 streak. The inner of the two lines is extra-discal, some- 

 what irregular, especially on the hind wings, and joins 



