796 THECLA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 



straw-colovired, the one above the upper median vein is but slightly indicated, its black .pupil is absent. Guate- 

 mala, Nicaragua, Colombia. Guiana. 



Hortui. Th. nortia Godm. d' Snip. (158 b). Both sexes are above more extensively and more deeply blue than 



beon, in the anal lobe is a small red spot. The under surface is more grey, the postdiscal line only towards 

 the proximal angle of the hindwing proximally bordered by red-yellow, the submarginal lines are on both sides 

 more distinctly bordered by white. From Guatemala. 

 ijii-aiila. Th. guzanta Schs. is above brown, with a red anal spot of the hindwing; beneath the postdiscal lines 



are so broadly tinged in red as in cecwps (158 b). particularly on the hindwings; the cell-endstreak is only a 

 light streak, not red and double; the moonspotted submarginal line is distally tinged in red which grows more 

 intense between the median veins and is black-pupilled. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Mexico (Jalapa). 

 gciJiinata. Th. geniinata sp. nov. (158 b) is very much like the preceding and distinguished by very intense, 



double, red discal streaks beneath ; the submarginal line is distally dusted in orange also on the forewings, on 

 the hindwings very broad and forms a continuous red band from the costal angle to the anal lobe. Rio Songo 

 (Bolivia). 

 K»(ta. Th. suda sp. nov. (158 b) is beneath scarcely different, the tinge is a little more olive, on the forewing 



there is a red-yellow marginal line, also on the hindwing it is somewhat red-yellow at the ends of the veins 

 and the base of the fringes; above the forewings are black, at the proximal margin a metallic blue stripe; the 

 hindwings are metallic sky-blue, at the distal margin and costal margin narrowly black, before the black marginal 

 line with narrow, black, small spots. Rio Songo (Bolivia). 



loriiia. Th. lorina //eM'. (158 c). Of this pretty species only 2 $$ seem to have become known hitherto. Above 



dark-brown, both wings towards the base sky-blue. Beneath grey with similar markings as the preceding, but 

 on the forewing the postdiscal line is regularly undulate and running through asfar as the proximal margin, making 

 a deep bow inward below the lower median vein ; there is no discal streak at all ; on the hindwing the submarginal 

 line is red-brown, on both sides bordered by white; the two red spots of the tail and the anal spot are connected 

 by a red bridge. Probably from Venezuela. 

 cyaiiuti. Th. cyanus sp. nov. (158 c) is above brilliant light-blue with a broad black costal and distal margin, 



the hindwings are quite narrowly bordered by black, only at the apex a little broader; between the tails, before 

 the border, a black dot; beneath hardly different from suda, only of a somewhat lighter and jnore yellowish 

 tinge. Bolivia. 

 talama. Th. talama Schs. is quite a little species which may belong here. Forewings black, hindwings of a 



dark-blue tinge with a white marginal line analwards. Beneath light greyish-brown with dark, distally light- 

 bordered cellular streaks; the postdiscal line dark-brown, distally whitish, on the hindwings jjroximally dark-red ; 

 darker brown submarginal shades are proximally bordered by whitish; the spot of the tail red with a little 

 black pupil close at the border, and some red above the upper median vein. Expanse of wings: 17 mm. Pctro- 

 polis in South Brazil. 

 hoaiinr'i. Th. hosiTieri Weeks is very incompletely described, but it may belong here. Above black with a slate- 



coloured reflection. Beneath brownish slate-coloured; the postdiscal lines red, distally white; the anal spot 

 and two spots of the tail red. Expanse of wings: 23 mm. Venezuela (Suapm^e). 



95. Endymion-Group. 



cndyiiiioii. Th. endymioti (V. (= tyitaeus F., xenophon Don., hugon Godt.) (158 c) is easily recognizable by the 



orange-ochreous colouring of the upper surface, only the costal margin of the forewings is broader dark-brown, 

 the distal margin very narrow; the black marginal line of the hindwings is towards the proximal angle iJroximally 

 bordered by white. Beneath brownish-grey, in the inner-marginal area of the forewing with an orange reflection 

 with similar, but somewhat less broken postdiscal lines than in beon (158 b); the submarginal line carried out 

 on both wings is a somewhat undulate brown line turning black analwards on the hindwings and being distally 

 tinged in a broad orange as far as the lower radial vein. Colombia. 

 cupluira. Th. cyphara Hew. (158 c) is above very similar, but the costal part of the forewings almost as far as 



down to the lower median vein is brown, not so sharply defined as in endymion, but gradually warming into 

 the orange. Beneath, the basal pait of the wings as far as the postdiscal lines is somewhat darker bioMiiish- 

 grey than the marginal part; the spot of the tail is higher, broader red, with a thicker black pupil, the anal 

 spot is also thicker black, the space between both not spanned by red. From Mexico to Venezuela, nowheres 

 common. 

 (lc>iuriit.i. Th. denarius Bflr. (= calena Hew.) ( 158 c) is likewise not dissimilar, but the orange colour is confined 



to the area between the median veins of the forewing; hindwings quite brown with a small orange anal spot. 

 Beneath almost the same as cyphara, only darker, the postdiscal band less bordered by orange. Mexico to 

 Panama. 

 sethon. Th. sethotl Godm. d- Salv. (158 c) is closely allied to the preceding, but the orange-copper spot is absent 



altogether, the costal margin of the forewing is rather darkened; the under surface is more reel-brown, the 

 postdiscal line more distinctly proximally bordered by red, Mexico to C^osta Rica. 



