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Th. trebula Hcuk (158 li). Forewings abovc^ brown-black, hindwings of a brilliant Vilue witli moderately irrhuia. 

 broad black costal and distal margins. Beneath marked as vemdus (158 g) on a purely olive-yellow, lustrous 

 ground. From Mexico to Colombia and the Amazon. 



Th. orcilla Hew. (158 li). The o is a})ove brown, the $ at the proximal maigin of the foiewing, and nrcUUi. 

 on the hindwing of a brilliant azure colour, in the anal direction with a bluish-white subterminal line and small 

 black spot.s before it. (Hewit.SON mixed up the sexes!) On the underside the colour is lustrous light reddish- 

 brown, marked as vesulus, but the postdiscal Viands are proximally broader orange-red. Ecuador, Colombia, 

 Bolivia. 



Th. gizela Heir. (15Si) is above indigd-black, like y^/.s/.s' (15,Sh), beneath reddish grey-lirown with a i/hcla. 

 brown cell-end streak and markings, as in oirilln. likewise with postdiscal bands broadly t)ordered with red. 

 Bolivia. 



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 sis. 



Th. panamensis sp. )iol'. (158 i) is the most similar to pisidulu (158 h), but it is above of a light greenish ikhkih 

 steel-blue, with a strong lustre, black margins of the same extent as in pisidula; the '^ is of a duller grey-blue. 

 Beneath more purely grey, with a slight lustre, the linear marking stronger, particularly the white bordering 

 more pronounced, the subnuxrginal lunae more distinct, the red .spot of the tail veiy large, so is the light-blue 

 spot beside it. Panama. 



Th. pupilla ■'sp. nov. (158 i) is above l)lack-brown, towards the base with a slight blue-grey tint, on iiuiiilln. 

 the hindwing with a large red anal spot being bordered at first by black, then by white; beneath Inown-grey, 

 the lines like in the jireceding, but finer: the submarginal lunae almost extinct, from the upper median vein 

 to the proximal margin distinct as an entirely straight black line being removed far inward and touching the 

 dents of the postdiscal band. The red spot of the tail and the anal spot extremely large, connected by a broad 

 red bridge, the black ])upil (if the spot of the tail very small, strigiform. Guiana to Colombia and Bolivia. 



Th. gentilla Sch.s. is above dull grey-V)lue, not metallic, with a fine black distal margin. Beneath light ijcidiUa. 

 grey-brown, marked like pi.sidtdu, but with whitish cell-end streaks; the W is filled up with black towards the 

 border, both the anal spots connected by a red bridge, the spot of the tail very large black, containing only 

 a small red crescent, the anal spot quite black. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Petropolis in South Brazil. 



Th. aprica Mschlr. may probably belong hereto. The black-brown forewings are of a violet-blue nin-icd. 

 gloss along the proxinuil margin, the hindwings in the disc; at the anal angle there is a red spot. Beneath dark 

 yellowish-grey, the markings as usually; the postdiscal l)and of the hindwing proximally black, distally white, 

 without any orange-red; the submarginal band is a whitish dentate line being dark towards the bolder; between 

 the median veins a large red spot with a black pupil ; the grey spot before the anal angle is bordered towards 

 the base by an arcuate red spot, the lower filling of the middle sides of the W lieing black. Paramaribo. 



105. Teucria-Cirnup. 



Th. teucria Hetr. (158 i). Above dark-brown, at the anal angle of the hindwing a white subterminal ImcrUi. 

 line and two minute white spots. Beneath grey, towards the border somewhat browner; the postdiscal band 

 composed of white small spots being proximally bordered with brown, like the submarginal bands. At the 

 costal and anal angles of the hindwing broad carmine spots. Amazon. 



Th. milto Godm. d- Sitlv. (158i) is similar, but above tinted blue, the hindwings dusted with blue, in'iiin. 

 Beneath the postdiscal band is placed much nearer to the border, while on the forewing it is more indistinct. 

 Panama. 



Th. tegula Hew. (158i) is more grey-brown than teucria and exhibits a quiteuncommonly large, dark tcyuUi. 

 brown scent-spot in the cell. Beneath very much like teucria, recognizable by a small white sj)(it in the middle 

 of the costal margin of the hindwing. Amazon. 



Th. casmilla Hew. (158 i, k) has the same enormous scent-spot as the preceding, being continued for <('^*('*//i'- 

 some distance behind the cell, on the forewing with an indigo-blue tint, and the hindwing in the jiroximal- 

 marginal half strewn with a dull blue, so that the veins, a cell-end streak and small submarginal sj)ots 

 remain black. Beneath light olive-brown, with very much duller markings, the white having almost disa))peared; 

 between the two submarginal bands there is some light blue dusting. Brazil (Rio Grande, Sa. Cathaiina). 



106. Ledaea-Group. 



Th. ledaea Hew. (158 1) is al>ove dark-brown, in the proximal half of the forewing and on the hindwing lidaea. 

 except the costal margin and apex grey-blue; the anal sj)ot being bordered with white and two small spots of 

 the tail black-brown. Beneath yellowish-brown with similarly shaped postdiscal bands as in the vesulu.s-gToui), 

 at the anal angle extensively orange-yellow, the anal spot and the spot on the tail black, the space between 

 brown, dusted with white. Amazon. 



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