Some Neiv and Little-hnoum Neotro'pical Lycaenidae. 437 



acquainted, but perhaps belonging to the same group as 

 T. thama, Hew.* 



Thecla joya, Dognin. 



Thecld joya, Dognin, Anns. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1895, p. 106. 

 Thecla callao, H. H. Druce, P. Z. S., 1907, p. 611, PI. XXXVI, 

 fig. 11. 



Hah. Ecuador, Peru. 



Thecla gamma, sp. nov. (Plate XI, fig. 9.) 

 Upper-side. Both wings dull greyisli-brown ; inner-marginal 

 area of fore-wing and basal, discal and anal areas of hind -wing pale 

 dull greyish-blue. Cilia of both wings reddish-orange tipped with 

 brown and chequered with white at the apex of the fore-wing. 

 Under-side, ground colour brown. Fore- wing ; a white mark closing 

 the cell ; apical and outer-marginal areas laved with white and 

 speckled with dark red scales as also is the costa near the base. 

 Hind-wing with a broad central pure white band commencing on 

 the costa and reaching the inner margin just above the lobe where 

 it is broken and less clearly defined. A pure white 7-shaped mark- 

 ing near the base surrounded by dark red. The outer-marginal half 

 of the wing as well as the costa is thickly speckled with red scales. 

 A red anteciliary line common to both wings. Cilia brown. Thorax 

 and abdomen blue above, white below. 

 Expanse, |^ inch. 



Hah. TucuMAN, Argentine Republic {P. Girard). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Appears to be nearest to T. sanguiiudis, Burm.,f of 

 which we have a good series from Paraguay, but is quite 

 distinct. I am unable to state positively the sex of the 

 specimen described, but believe it to be a $. It has no 

 trace of any differently placed scales at the end of the cell 

 of the fore-wing. The figure is drawn li times natural 

 size. 



Thecla heodcs, sp. nov. (Plate XI, fig. 10 ^, 11 $.) 



(J. Upper-side. Fore-wing orange with the costa, apex and 

 outer-margin rather narrowly brown ; the inner-margin narrowly 



* Thecla thama, Hew., 111. Diur. Lep.,p. 189, Fl. LXXV, figs. 591, 

 592 (1877). 



t Tliecla sanguinalis, Burm., Lep. Eepub. Argent, PI. VIII, fio- 12 

 (1879). 



