HESPERIDiE. 



LEUCOCHITONEA II. 



LEUCOCHITONEA FLAVOFASCIATA. 11. 



LeKcochUoneu flavofamata, Hewitson, Equatorial Lepidoptera, pafje 7C. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing crossed transversely before the middle 

 by a band of orange-yellow. 



Underside. Both wings with the basal half white and yellow : clouded with 

 brown on the anterior wing and bounded by the transverse band, its border irregular 

 on the posterior wing and marked by a linear yellow spot at the end of the cell. 



Exp. 1-1% inch. Hab. Ecuador. (Sarayaco, Buckley.) 



lu the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



LEUCOCHITONEA THESTIA. 12, 13. 



Loicochitonea Thestia, Ileioitson, Equat. Lqyidoj)., page 77, 1S70. 



Upperside. Male dark brown. Both wings crossed before the middle by an 

 irregular broad band of white, commencing on the costal margin of the anterior wing, 

 and ending on the inner margin of the posterior wing, divided into six parts on the 

 anterior wing. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by two bands of very 

 obscure spots. 



Underside as above, except that the band is broader, and that the base of both 

 wings is irrorated with white. 



Female like the male, except that the anterior wing is crossed above (instead of 

 the white band) by a scries of obscure grey spots, and that both wings on the under- 

 side are crossed by two bands (one submarginal) of spots more distinctly marked 

 than on the male. 



E.\p. $ I21J 2 I3 incli. Hab. Ecuador. (Sarayco, Buckley.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



The female, although dissimilar above, from the absence of the band on the upperside of the 

 anterior wing, has it below. 



LEUCOCHITONEA LATREA. 14. 



Upperside dark brown crossed at the middle by a common band of white : 

 narrow, irrorated with brown and divided into nine parts on tlie anterior wing where 

 it is succeeded by a small triangular white spot, an irregular band and a submarginal 

 series of pale brown spots. 



Underside as above, except that the central band is broader, reaching to the 

 base nearly of the posterior wing and that the posterior wing has a submarginal 

 series of pale brown spots. 



Exp. l-j-Q inch. Hab. Nicaragua. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



LEUCOCHITONEA LAVIANA. 15, 16. 



LeucocJiitonea Laviuna, Hewitson, Descriptions of Hesperidm, page 4S, 186S. 

 Pyrgus Leca, Butler, Trans. Entom. Soc., page 510, 1S70. 



Upperside white, with the base grey. Anterior wing with the apex broadly 

 brown crossed by a band and by two subapical bands of minute white spots : the 

 outer margin below these marked by lunular brown spots bordered with white. 

 Posterior wing with the outer margin and some lunular spots upon it dark brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that the apex is marked by a 



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Puhlished July \st, 1S75.J 



