246 Mr. F. Du Cane Godman and Mr. Osbert Salvin’s 
Theope matuta, sp. n. 
Alis nigris, anticis ad basin (costa nigra excepta) nitide ceruleis 
venis divisis ; posticis area interna usque ad basin nitide cerulea, 
costa late, margine externo angustiore, nigris: subtus fuscis costa ad 
basin rufa, maculis elongatis discalibus albidis transfasciatis, fascia 
maculosa submarginali ejusdem coloris ; posticis maculis sagitti- 
formibus submarginalibus, aliisque elongatis discalibus indistincte 
notatis, fronte inter oculos nigra utrinque albido marginata, corpore 
fusco, palpis nigris antice albis, abdomine linea mediana alba. Exp. 
al., 1°8 in. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Santa Clara Valley (Ff. A. Zurcher). 
This Theope is allied to T. thebais of the Amazon 
Valley, but the blue on the upper side of the wings is 
much brighter. Beneath the wings are darker and the 
pale markings more definite, and the rufous base of the 
costa of the primaries is more extended. 
We have only seen a single female specimen of this 
distinct species, which was contained in a collection 
made in the Santa Clara Valley, Costa Rica, at an 
altitnde of 1,200 feet above the sea, by Mr. F. A. 
Ziircher. 
Theope diores, sp. n. 
Alis fusco-nigris ; anticis ad basin czruleis costa omnino fusca ; 
posticis ceruleis, costa late, angulo apicali usque ad maculam 
magnam ad medium marginis externi nigro-fuscis ; margine in- 
terno albido ; subtus rufescente griseis posticis punctis quibusdam 
nigris ad marginem externum subtrianguliformibus et introrsum 
pallide cxruleo limbatis, corpore supra ceruleo subtus alis con- 
colore. Exp. al, 1°5 in. 
Hab. Mexico, Colima (Mus. Staudinger); Jalapa (H. 
Hdwards). 
We have seen two male specimens of this species, one 
of them lent us by Dr. Staudinger, and the other given 
us by the late Henry Edwards, who probably received it 
from Mr. Schaus in one of his earlier collections. The 
most nearly allied species is perhaps the common J° 
virgilius, from which it may at once be recogrized by the 
large dark spot which interrupts the blue hindwings near 
the middle of the outer margin. 
