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vein 3; the red veiy broad between veins 2 and 3; a black anal spot 
surmounted with white. 
E.rpan^e. — Thirty millimeters. 
JIabltat. — Colombia. 
Type.—^o. 5931, U.S.N.M. 
THECLA ZURKVITZI, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Male. — Wings dark brown; a terminal black line. Sec- 
ondaries, a marginal white line, and a dark red spot at anal angle. 
Underneath, light brown; a terminal blackish line. Primaries reddish 
brown, outwardly black and then white, from costa slightly oblique 
to vein 2, below vein 2 placed more inwardly; a subterminal dark 
l)rown line interrupted by veins. Secondaries, the outer line brighter 
red, outwardly ])lack and then white, straight between vei^s •! and 7, 
above 7 placed more outwardly; below 4 starting more inwardly to 
vein 2, below 2 inwardly angled, and outwardh^ angled on submedian; 
a black spot surmounted by red at anal angle; subterminal dark brown 
shaded with white, lunular, broadly followed b}^ red from veins 2 to 
3, forming a lunule filled in with black; some red above vein 3. 
Expanse. — Twenty-five mill imeters. 
Habitat. — Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil. 
Type.—^o. 5932, U.S.N.M. 
THECLA EPOPEOIDES, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Female. — Primaries dull metallic blue on inner margin 
and basal half, otherwise black. Secondaries dull metallic blue, the 
margins black; the outer margin only narrowly so. Underneath dark 
gray. Primaries, a white line from costal margin to vein 2 just beyond 
cell; a subterminal finer white line, slightly wav,y, and curved from 
costal to inner margin, and outwardly- shaded with darker gra3^ Sec- 
ondaries, an outer white line nearly straight from vein 8 to vein 4 
then inwardl}^ curved to vein 3, and deeply curved outwardly between 
veins 2 and 3; below vein 2 an inward curve and an outward angle 
before inner margin; the subterminal line fine, lunular between the 
veins, outwardl}^ edged with black below vein 3, and followed by an 
orange spot between veins 2 and 3, containing outwardly a triangular 
black spot; a few orange and dark scales at anal angle; a terminal 
. dark line inwardly shaded with whitish; some marginal whitish shades 
between the veins. 
Expanse. — Twenty millimeters. 
Habitat. — Coatepec, Mexico. 
Near T. epopea Hewitson. 
Type.—^o. 6933, U.S.N.M. 
