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Th. apheles Bat. Likewise from the Amazon; very similar to thoofes (143 i), but smaller and lighter aphelcs. 

 blue. Beneath light brown. — sobrina liat. presumably likewise approximates Ifiootes; described according sobrina. 

 to a 2; like thootes, but more vioIettish-l)kie instead of cyanic blue, and the under surface of a lustrous golden 

 brown. From the Tapajoz. 



Th. terambus Godt. {= lytaea Hhn.-G.) (143h, i). The ^J has a similar upper surface like virgilius, Icratnhwi. 

 but a bright blue gloss and a very pointed apical part of the hiudwing. The $ has no blue pupil in the apical 

 black of the forewing. Immediately recognizable by the under surface, where the wings, on a brown, in the 

 9 yellowish-tinged ground, exhibit a dark-brown stripe extending from in front of the apex of the forewing 

 to the middle of the inner margin of the hindwing. South Biazil. Not common. 



Th. tetrastigma But. This much smaller species is above unicolorously brown, without markings, tctrastiijuia. 

 The under surface is dark brown too, but here are short light .streaks at the end of both wing.s and, in front 

 of the border black dots in a light halo. From the Tapajoz. 



Th, thentis G. d- S. This form, in the distribution of the blue, so greatly resembles thoofes (143 i) W«>»(i.s. 

 that it was sometimes confounded with it. Like there, the black di.stal band of the (J-forewing projects lingui- 

 formly as far as below the cell-encL But the forewings are much more pointed, the apex still more produced, 

 the costal margin behind the base more bulging-out. Moreover, the under surface in thootes is entirely unicolorous, 

 whereas here it is marked with dark shades. Central America. 



Th. bacsnis >S'('/;.s. Larger, forewings black, proximal margin at the base broadly blue, hindwings haccnis. 

 blue with a black costal margin. Under surface brown with an intensely brown, joint band running from the 

 apex of the forewing, similarly as in the following species, to the middle of the j)roximal margin of the hindwing. 

 Forewing at the base yellowish. Mexico. Unknown to me. 



Th. phaeo Pritlir. This is probably nothing else but the South Brazilian form of foh'a G. d- S. phwo. 

 (143 i) living in the northern parts of South America and in Central America. This species has altogether the /"'»«■ 

 distorted shape of thentis, very pointed forewings and a pointed anal part of the hindwing, but the colouring 

 is that of virgilius (apical half of the forewing blackish, otherwise blue) which it approximates also in the size. 

 Beneath dirty pinkish-grey; the centre of the wings is traversed by a dark nebulous belt. Rare. 



Th. basilea Bat. (143i). One of the lai-gest species, above similarly coloured to terambus (143 h, i). banilca. 

 but both sexes with a dark border of the hindwing, which decreases in width from the apex towards the anal 

 angle. Under sui'face brown, with a dark stripe from the apex of the forewing to the proximal margin of the 

 hindwing, like in terambus, but the dark ground of the wings is, in the disc, usually still more or les.s 

 distinctly spotted. Central America. Not common. 



Th. eleutho G. d- S. The largest species; greatly approximating the preceding, but easily discernible deuilio. 

 by the much broader black distal margin of the hindwing and by the under surface exhibiting also the belt-like 

 stripe as basilea, but a lighter, more nuirked ground of the wings in which, above all, a chain of marginal eye- 

 spots of the hindwing is conspicuous. Panama. 



Th. mania G. d- S. from Mexico is of a similar size and colouring, but easily distinguishable l)y intniin. 

 the unicolorously loam-yellow under surface being traversed only by the median stripe, as well as by the hind- 

 wing of the ^ exhibiting no dark margin. Rare. 



Th. syngenes Bat. Beneath rather similar to mania, but the hindwings always exhibit a distinct symienes. 

 dark anal spot, and at the apex of the forewing, at the beginning of the dark stripe, we notice a mostly 

 somewhat square spot. Above the blue on the hindwing is more confined; the veins are distinctly brown; in 

 the $ the black apical part of the forewing often shows a blue spot. Santareni. 



Th. thebais Hew. This species has a deep dark-blue of a magnificent lustre, as it is exhibited by tlidmi.'i. 

 different TJiecla and, of the Indian Lyca.enidae, particularly by the Arhopala. Especially the form matuta malitiu. 

 G. cfc S. (143 i, misprinted into niatula) exhibits this deep blue, and still more extensively than typical thebais, 

 but in this respect the matuta from the different districts vary considerably. The fore- and hindwings are very 

 broadly margined in black; particularly in typical thebais from the Amazon, where the blue covers scarcely 

 yet Va of the upper surface of the wings. Beneath thebais shows a broad brown median band and a submarginal 

 nebulous stripe; in matuta the under surface is more regularly brown, the veins distinctly darker, the transverse 

 bands duller; it occurs in Central America and in particularly large specimens (ghriosa B.-H. i. 1.) in Colombia. 



Th. janus Btlr. In this species from the Lower Amazon the proximal half of the w'uigs shows beneath jantm. 

 a yellow colouring which does not occur in any other allied Theope. Only decorata shows yet a basal yellow 

 on the wings beneath, but only in the cell of the forewing; the latter, however, has also blue in the distal part 

 of the forewing beneath and is smaller than janus. 



Th. drepana Bat. A small species; the costa behind the base bulged and, in the o, the apex of the drepana. 

 forewing gj'catly drawn forward. The forewings being above blue exhibit a dark margin and 2 very irregiilar 

 lines formed by small streaks. Beneath are numerous, small red-yellow stripes on a lighter ground, being partly 

 united to a belt-like stripe through the centre. Teffe. 



