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the other at the lower median venule of the hind wings, 

 then makes an angle in submedian interspace, and ends 

 in a streak up the inner margin. In the cell of each 

 wing are two parallel abbreviated white streaks or bars. 



Female.— Upper side as in the male except the stigma. 

 The tails measure .26 and .12 of an inch respectively. 

 Under side as in the male. 



This species diifers from Calanus in the longer tails, 

 in the larger size, and in the inner of the two lines on 

 the under side being single, whereas in Calanus it is 

 double or chain-like. 



Indian River, Florida. 



103. Thecla Calanus, Hiib. 



Expanse of wings 1.1 inches. 



Upper surface dark wood-brown, with slight brassy 

 green reflection, the males with the usual sex-mark ; hind 

 wings with two tails, both 

 rather short; a fine, white 

 maro-inal line from the anal 

 angle to the longest tail, with 

 a black mark between the 



tails. 



Under side grayish brown ; 

 both wings crossed by two 

 darker, broken lines, on the 

 hind wings both lines white, 



edged on both sides, but more distinctly so on the out- 

 side of the inner line and on the inside of the outer line. 

 These parts of the lines on the fore wings are distinctly 

 white, but only now and then a few white scales on the 

 other' side of these lines. On the hind wings the outer 



Fia. 73. 



Thecla Calanus, male, the under side 

 at the loft. 



