30 CATALOGUE OF 



" The IlerdcB are beautiful species, with naked eyes, setose palpi, 

 antennae with long joints ringed with white, and a very well-marked 

 club, and with three branches to the postcostal vein of the fore- 

 wings." — ("Westwood, Diurnal Lep. p. 482.) 



Genus THECLA, Fahricius. 



Thecla, Fahricius (in Illiger's Magaz. YI.) (1807). 

 PoLTOMMATTJS, p. Godart. 



35. THECLA ONYX, Boisduval. 



Thecla Onyx, Boisduval, MS. (1847). 

 Myrina Ouyx, F. Douhleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. II. p. 22. 



a. Moulmein. Presented by the Trustees of the 

 British Museum. 



Thecla Onyx. — Uppee-side has the fore-ioings dark brown, with a 

 patch of white in the centre ; the posterior base, from the subcostal 

 veinlet to the middle of the disc, cyaneous. Hind-wings light brown ; 

 centre, from base to near exterior margin, cyaneous, paling to light 

 bluish-brown along the abdominal margin. Tails three, two inner 

 longish. Under-side pale ferruginous brown ; a white fascia cross- 

 ing the anterior and posterior wings towards anal angle, and ending 

 upwards to abdominal margin in a greenish-metallic line, the latter 

 being bounded inwardly by a narrow blackish line ; a blackish spot 

 and lino at the anal angle, and another spot some distance off on the 

 exterior margin. 



Genus DIPSAS^, Doubleday. 



DiPSAS, Douhleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. II. p. 25 (1847). 



Westwood, in Doubleday and Heioitson'' s Diurnal Lep. p. 479 



(1852). 

 ApHNiEUS, p. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. II. p)- 25 (1847). 

 SiTHON, Hilhner, Vers. hek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816). 



36. DIPSAS SYLA, Kollar Sp. 



^ Thecla Syla, Kollar, in HilgeVs Kaschnir, IV. pt. II. 

 ;?. 414, t.4,f.7,8 (1844). 

 Dipsas Syla, Westwood, in Douhleday and Hewitson's 

 Diurnal Lep. p. 480, No. 1. 

 (J Thecla Pholus, Boisduval, MS. (1847). 



