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Genus IPIDECLA Dyar. 



IPIDECLA MONENOPTRON, new species. 



Wings above dark gray, the fore wing with a patch of metallic 

 blue occupying nearly the basal half. Beneath, pale gray; fore 

 wing with a black shade on costal half to end of cell; hind wing 

 with the veins black-lined. Expanse, 18 mm. 



Type.— Male, Cat. No. 21198, U.S.N.M. ; Sierra de Guerrero, Mex- 

 ico, February, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



Family LYCAENIDAE. 

 Genus THECLA Fabricius. 



THECLA BUNNIRAE, new species. 



Fore wing blackish, shaded with fulvous on basal two-thirds below 

 cell. Hind wing with light fulvous shading nearly to margin; a 

 fulvous spot at anal angle; tail at vein 2 long, at vein 3 short. Below, 

 wing gray, slightly yellowish tinted ; fore wing with a straight white 

 line from costa to vein 2, edged within by fulvous gray. Hind wing 

 with a faint white line at end of cell; an outer angled white line 

 edged within with red, bent at vein 7, dislocated inward at the inter- 

 space 3-4, forming a slight W thence to margin; a terminal black 

 line preceded by white from veins 1-2; a black spot at tornus with 

 red before it; a powdery gray space; a black spot with orange cres- 

 cent before it in the interspace 2-3. Expanse, 21 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21199, U.S.N.M.; Sierra de Guerrero, Mexico, 

 February, 1913 (R. Miiller). 



THECLA VIGGIA, new species. 



Black above ; fore wing with a dark-blue shade below cell to three- 

 fourths ; hind wing blue nearly to the margin ; tail at vein 2 short, at 

 vein 3 long, with a white tip. Below whitish gray; fore wing with 

 a faint, narrow, dark ellipse at end of cell; immediately beyond, a 

 curved gray band, edged within by fulvous, not attaining costa or 

 margin; an outer blackish line, white-edged within, bent at vein 5; 

 median space more whitish than base or margin. Hind wing with 

 the cell mark and band as on fore wing, the band with more red, 

 angled on the veins, produced downward along vein 1, without red 

 thence to margin; a submarginal light-gray line, lunate between the 

 veins, extruded between veins 4-6 ; margin with rounded dusky spots 

 between the veins; a black spot nearly enclosed by red in the inter- 

 space 2-3 ; a small black dot at tornus, with a little red before ; black 

 specks in the interspace 1-2. Expanse, 19 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21200, U.S.N.M. ; Santa Rosa, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 May, 1906 (W. Schaus). 



