ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 5 



nule, brown on its outer edge, white within with a black spot at its centre. From 

 upper angle a brown line extends straight across the wing to the centre of the 

 inner margin. Outside of this is a space one-sixteenth of an inch wide, of light 

 gray. Outside of this the area to hind margin is dark brown, broken by a 

 series of interspacial lighter brown semicircles near the margin, the interior 

 portion of these semicircles being nearly black. 

 The hind margins have a thread of white. 



This species is nearly identical with T. argiva Hew., which has no 

 tails. It is also near T. tadita Hew., which is in the Hewitson 

 collection. 



Thecla hosmeri A. G. Weeks, Jr.^ 

 {Plate III, Figure j.) 

 Habitat : Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse : .95 inch. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen above, black; below, gray. Palpi gray. Antennae 

 black, with microscopic white annulations at base of each joint. Club black. 



Upper side of fore-wing black, with slaty lustre. 



Upper side of hind wing black, with slaty lustre. At end of submedian 

 nervule is a short thread-like tail. Below this, at end of second submedian 

 nervule, is another longer tail, both black, with a white tip. 



Under side of fore wing brownish slate color. From a point on costa, two- 

 thirds distance to apex, runs a brick-red line, bordered on its outer edge with a 

 white thread down to submedian nervule. 



Under side of hind wing brownish slate color. The brick-red line of fore wing 

 is continued running downwards parallel to hind margin and meeting inner 

 margin just above the anal angle. In the four lower interspaces this line be- 

 comes jagged, forming a series of semicircles. Outside of the first two of these 

 semicircles are patches of brick red, the lower one having a black point on its 

 lower edge. At the angle is another brick-red patch or spot, smaller than the 

 others, with a black point on its lower edge. Just within the hind margin, run- 

 ning from anal angle to the median nervure, is a white thread. 



Wings have a slight fringe of the ground color. 



This species is closely allied to 7! pisis Godm. and to T. gargophia 

 Herr. Described from six specimens in my collection. 



1 Entomological News, Vol. XVII, No. 6, p. 198, June, 1906. 



