THECLA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 781 



Th. foyi Schs. resembles the preceding above, in tlie anal lobe a small orange spot. Beneath light /((//(. 

 greyish-brown, without a scent-spot, the markings as in p/mvter (151 f), duller, but on the forcwing the sub- 

 marginal line is absent, the proximal one extends only as far as the lower median vein. Described from Peru. 



Th. purpurantes Drc. (151 g) is above greener blue than foyi and has no orange spot in the anal lobe; piirimnui- 

 beneath the black and white postdiscal line is more sharply broken angularly and more prominent. The scent- '^*'' 



spot is of a silky-lustrous straw-colour, in the centre darker. Peru. 



Th. acameda Hew. (= paulina (SV*//'. i. 1.) ( 151 f) resembles f?///r(rM.5 above, but it has a green-reflecting, (innin-da. 

 polished costal margin of the hindwing, the costal angle itself being blue. On the under surface the basal half, 

 at the hindwings, particularly towards the costal margin, is darker brown, the scent-spot is quite light cement- 

 coloured: the strongly broken lines are well reproduced in the figure. Amazon, Colombia, Peru. 



Th. elika Hew. (151 g) has above a decidedly lighter and greener blue with a more narrowly black </ihi. 

 distal part. The under surface is much lighter whitish-grey, the lines finer, towards the costal margin on the 

 hindwing more divergent, the red marginal spots smaller and duller, the costal margin of the hindwing is less 

 convex, the scent-spot hardly contrasts with the ground. Brazil. 



Th. ambrax Ww. (151 f) has a still much narrower black apex and distal margin, and is immediately (iiiiijr(i.c. 

 recognizable by the large, oval, red-brown scent-spot at the upper cell-end. Beneath light ashy-grey, the large 

 scent-spot clay-coloured, the lines as in acameda (151 f). Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Brazil. 



Th. adela Stgr. (151 h) is a well characterized species, above something like ostrinns (151 f), the l)lue ndcia. 

 rather very much confined, with a distinct red anal spot and a broad, blackish-brown costal margin. The under 

 surface is brown, not greenish, between the postdiscal transverse line and the distal margin, in the whole length, 

 a brownish macular line extends, bordered on both sides by whitish. The costal margin of the hindwing scarcely 

 bulged out, the forewings without any scent-spot. Amazon District. 



Th. syedra Heu\ (151 e). A smaller species, above almcjst like slreplion (151 d), beneath entirely light si/idm. 

 brownish , the '+' somewhat darker, the lines arranged about as in cyllarus (151 f ), the costal margin of the hindwing 

 strongly convex, covering the yellowish, large scent-spot; on the hindwings the antemarginal, macular line 

 begins at the costal margin with - isolated brown spots. Guatemala to the Amazon. 



Th. enenia Hew. (155h) is allied to the preceding; above more greenish-blue, beneath very light cncnia. 

 grey, towards the apex on the forewings reddish-brown, the lines very much like those in syedra (151 e), the 

 marginal area of the hindwings extensively whitisli, the postdiscal broadly white, the submarginal line consisting 

 of tiny brown spots, the second of which beginning from the costal margin is the largest. Brazil. 



Th. rickmani Schs. seems to belong here and to resemble purpurantes (151 g); on the forewings the rickuKini. 

 blue colour is confined to the surroundings of the submedian, the hindwings have only a narrowly black costal 

 and distal margin; above the anal lobe in which there is no red there is a white spot. Beneath light olive-brown; 

 on the hindwings the postdiscal line runs rectilinearly from the subcostal line to the lower radial; the anal red 

 very broadly developed beyond the upper median vein. Colombia. 



Th. imma Prittir. is a species that has hitherto not been identified, described according to a iiimiK. 

 single $ which may belong here, but also to the orcynia-group (p. 788). Size and shape of Th. quercus (Vol. I, 

 t. 74 d); above blackish-brown, in the basal part of the forewing and on the hindwing extensively dull sky- 

 blue. Beneath light ashy-grey with the 2 usual ^hite transverse lines reaching almost the proximal margin 

 also on the forewings and touching each other on the hindwings in cell 4; the sjjot on the tail is red, the anal 

 spot black, only proximally dusted in red. Patria? 



Th. metanira Hew. (151 c) alscj belongs yet into this group, in sj)ite of the deviating scent-spot on mr/dnim. 

 the upper surface of the forewing which is situate, in and behind the cell-end; it is dark brownish-grey, in the 

 proximal part a jet-black pupil. Forewings above rather extensively radiantly greenish-blue. Beneath the 

 forewings are unmarked greyish-brown, without the scent-spot, the hindwings marked as in perola (151 g, h), 

 but without a convex co.stal margin and with very slightly develojicd red, in the y almost entirely without 

 any red, but instead of it more copiously dusted in greenish, so that it also resembles the a^ewM-group (= narbal- 

 group, p. 765, t. 150 h — k). From the Amazon to Peru. 



Th. lorea Mschlr. which has remained unknown to me, seems to be the most closely allied to the /omi. 

 jireceding, unless it coincides with it. It is described to be above azure with a broadly blackish-brown costal 

 margin, apex and distal margin, at the end of the discocellular with a round, blackish-brown scent-spot. Beneath 

 dark brownish-grey, the marking of the hindwings is as in the preceding, the forewings likewi.se as they are 

 there, without any markings. Surinam. 



Th. ericeta Hew. (= munatia Hew.) (151 d). Above of a magnificent radiantly blue like strephoii, rrirria. 

 with the same l)roadly black apex of the forewing; the costal margin of the hindwing has a polished black lustre, 

 suffused by indigo- blue. The under surface is variable, brown or grey, the proximal white line diverges far 



