Puhl. in. XII. lOiO. THECLA. By Dr. :\I. DRArDT. 809 



Th. crossaea Hew. (159 1) likewise approximate-* jitunaUn. Above brown, hindwing towards the n-os.saea. 

 ba-ie strewn with blue, before the anal margin with small black spots. Beneath marked similarly to the said 

 specie-;: forewings reddish-brown, at the apex white, clouded brown \\ith (3 dark, distally white spots in front 

 of it. Hindwing-; wliitish, clouded brown, with 4 large dark brown basal sjjots, cell-streak and interrupted 

 postdiscal macular band like there. Patria not stated. 



Th. legota Hev. (159 1) is above brown, at the proximal margin of the forewing and in the larger Irgoh. 

 proximal part of the hindwing dull violet-blue. Beneath marked almost like crossaea. the forewing with a red- 

 brown cell-end streak and a postdiscal band compo.sed of black double streaks, inside filled up with reddish- 

 brown and outside bordered with white; at the base of the hindwing only 2 spots. Bolivia. 



Th. veterator Drc. (159 1) is above dull black-brown, in the basal inner-marginal half of the forewing, vcferator. 

 and on the hindwing light lilac-blue; scent-spot large, dull, in the distal half of the cell. Beneath marked similarly 

 to yojoa. but the ground-colour is much duller brownish without the white abmixture. the white cell-streaks 

 and the white shade in the basal area are absent. Paraguay. 



122. Bubastus- Group. 



Th. bubastus Cr. (= .salona Hew.) (145 h) is above brown with an indistinct dark brown discal spot bubastus. 

 and dark spot at the anal angle of the tailless hindwing. Beneath light reddish-brown, on the hindwing towards 

 the base grej^ on both wings with large conical, distally white spots at the border; the postdiscal band.s are 

 composed of black-brown small spots being distally bordered with white, and are on the forewing placed very 

 near to the distal margin; in the basal area of the hindwing two spots, the spot of the tail above bordered with 

 red. This tailless form flies in Guiana. Venezuela. Amazon, Brazil. Paraguay. St. Vincent. Dominica. Grenada. 

 — For the tailed f(5rm: eurytulus Hb)i. (= cybira Hew., modesta Mayn., ocellifera Grt., istapa Beak., columella enryiulus. 

 F.) (145 h). occurring in the southern states of North America, in Mexico, Guatemala. Costa Rica, Panama, 

 and in Hayti. Cuba. Jamaica and the Bahamas, a special genus was established: CaJUcista Grote. 



Th. sapota Hew. (145 h) entirely resembles above the tailless bubastus, beneath it is likewise similar, sayoia. 

 the ground-colour somewhat darker, the spots being all smaller, more in the shape of streaks, and on the hindwings 

 the basal spots are absent. Peru. 



Th. arcula Drc. (145 h) somewhat resembles sapota and is tailless, too. but it has quite a different, an-iila. 

 large, dark scent-spot almost filling up the cell; the hindwing is in the anal half dark violet-blue, which coloiu' 

 extends along the distal margin up to the costal angle. The underside is similar to that of sapota, but it is darker 

 purple-brown with white cell-end streaks and a straighter. more coherent postdiscal line and two larger orange 

 anal spots. Paraguay and Argentina. 



Th. argona Hew. (= rana Schs.) (145 h). Above like eurytulus with a smaller scent-spot in the cell; nrgona. 

 at the anal angle of the hindwing there are three larger black-brown spots which are surrounded with grey- 

 blue in the q only traceably in the $ much more extensively. Beneath somewhat lighter and browner, the spots 

 rounder, distally bordered with white, on the hindwings proximally with orange; the broad, white submarginal 

 dusting is al)sent, the anal spots are more orange-red. Brazil. Argentina. Paraguay. 



Th. ligia Hew. (145 h) resembles the preceding above in the (^, but it has some light violettish blue liyia. 

 at the proximal margin of the hindwing; the $ has more extensively light blue hindwings, and also in the basal 

 half of the proximal margin on the forewing blue dusting. Beneath brownish-grey with cell-end streaks, beneath 

 similar to eurytulus, the wings in the distal parts very much clouded brown and dusted white with an orange 

 spot on the tail and a black anal spot. Colombia. 



Th. limenia Hew. (145 i). Above similar to the preceding, beneath ea-ily discernible by the postdiscal liinoila. 

 band of the hindwing losing itself into a line in the anal half and forming a V; the I'ed anal spots, particularly 

 the spot on the tail very large, orange-red and connected by a red bridge above the blue-dusted interspace. 

 Cuba, Jamaica, San Domingo. 



Th. angelia Hew. (145 i) is very closely allied to limenia and differs above by the red-brown disc in mujelUt. 

 the 3^. beneath l)y the absence of the basal spots on the hindwing. Cuba, Jamaica. 



Th. dominicana Lathy is probably only a modified insular form of the preceding; above the cop]ieiy <loiiiiuicana, 

 spot is confined to the basal half of the proximal margin of the forewing, and to traces oir the disc of the hind- 

 wing; beneath there is a complete postdiscal transverse line which is bordered on the hindwing proximally with 

 red from the upper median vein to the costal margin. Expanse of wings: 23 — 31 mm. Dominica. 



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