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Genus XIX. THEOPE. 



Theope E. Douhleday. 

 PsALiDOPTERis Ilubner. 



Body robust: wings generally blue with the costa and apical margin black, (facies of Polyommati ) ; beneath pale, 

 uniformly dull-coloured ; alike m both sexes. ' ^ ' 



Head moderate-sized, clothed with close adpressed hairs. 

 Eyes moderate-sized, naked. 



Lahial Palpi clothed with scales, obliquely elevated to about the level of the middle of the eye The basal ioint 

 short and curved; terminal joint nearly half the length of the middle one, very slender, cylindrical and 

 horizontal. ^ j > j , 



Antemm mther more than half the length of the fore wings, very slender; articulations short, slightly annulated 

 with white ; terminated by an elongate, gradually formed, slender club, obtuse at the tip 

 iHORAX robust, short, scaly, except at tlie sides and behind. 



Fore Wings broad, generally with the inner margin considerably elongated, so that the wing is truncate alono- the 

 apical margm. Costal margin much arched at the base, slightly emarginate along the middle ; apical anole often 

 acute. Apical margin entire, more or less convex. Inner margin straight. Costal vein short, suddenly bent 

 torward at its apex. Postcostal vein with the first and second branches arising before the anterior extremity of 

 the discoidal cell : sometimes the first branch is confluent with the costal vein for a short distance, in which case 

 the extremity of the first branch is thickened, and assumes the appearance of the termination of the costal vein 

 Itself ; t iird branch arising half way between the cell and the apex of the wing. Upper disco-cellular vein 

 extremely minute, not oblique: middle and lower disco-cellular veins very slender, transverse, of nearly equal 

 length; the lower one uniting with the third branch of the median vein, a short distance beyond its orio-in 

 closing the discoidal cell in a transverse direction at about half the length of the wing. ° ' 



Hind Wings variable in form, but generally broad, and truncated along the outer margin, which is always entire 

 and not scalloped; the anal angle occasionally produced. Costal vein extending n.early to the outer anole' 

 Precosta strong, oblique, and directed outwardly. Postcostal arising much nearer the body than the precostd •' 

 branclied at a moderate distance from its base. Upper disco-cellular arising at a very short distance beyond 

 the branch, transverse, but slightly oblique, of nearly equal length with the outer disco-cellular, both beino- 

 very slender; the latter uniting with the third branch of the median vein. ° 



Fore Legs of the male very small, and slender, fringed on each side with short hairs. Fore Leas of the female also 

 very short slender, scaly. The tarsal portion witli strong spines at the extremity of the articulations 



Jumr llind Legs long, slender, scaly. Tarsal claws minute. 



Tbs genus comprises a number of species, mostly undescribed, wfiich have a very sti-onc; general resemblance, on the upper side of 

 the wmgs to many of the common blue Lycasnidm ; the costa and apex of the fore wings, and costal margin of the hind wings, bein- 

 black, With the rest of the wmgs pale bnglit blue. From many of the preceding genera of this family, they are distin-ruished by theh- 

 much longer palpi, and their broad truncated fore wings. i> y ^ u.^uu^uisncu oy men 



THEOPK. 



1. Thkope Lv'taea. 



Psaliclopteris Lytaca Jfiilmer, Ziitrmie I'.rol. Srhm. f. <IOI, 

 90a. 

 Brazil. 



2. Thkiipe Terambis. 



Polyommatus Terambus Gorlart, Enc. M. ix. pt. 676. n. 



I8'2. ; li. Doiiblfddii, I/i.st Lvp. Brit. Miis. |it a p () 

 (Theope T.). 

 Hr:izil, Java (Godait). B. M. 



Theope Kudocia. 



Theope Jjudocia E. DouhMrn/. List Lcp. lii-il. Miis. pt. 2. 

 p. f). ; Doiih/. Westw. J^ ITctcitx. Geii. D. I.rp. pi. 70. f. *. 

 Para. B. M. 



Oi-liiher I. IS.) I. 



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