422 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
THECLA LANCKENA, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Wings, above, blackish gra3\ Secondaries, a reddish 
spot at anal angle; a terminal black line preceded b}^ a white line below 
vein 3. Underneath light brown, base of fringe darker. Primaries, 
costal edge finely orange at base; a black outer line from costa to vein 
2, divided by a dark-red line; a line subterminal brown shade curved 
below apex. Secondaries, a broad bright red outer band, widening 
outwardly, on costa and between veins 4 and 6, angled near inner 
margin, outwardly shaded with black and then with white; a subter- 
minal brownish shade; some marginal red scales above and below vein 
3, and also above and below the submedian; a large black spot at anal 
angle, a smaller one between veins 2 and 3. 
Exjxinse. — Twenty-eight millimeters. 
Tlahitat. — Peru. 
Allied to T. hagrada Hewitson, 
Ti/jye.—No. 5955, U.S.N.M. 
THECLA CHILICA, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Male. — Primaries blackish ; the cell, and below it 
obliquely to near inner angle metallic blue; a large round black brand 
beyond the cell. Secondaries, metallic blue; the costal and inner mar- 
gins grayish ; a marginal white line at anal angle. Underneath 
whitish. Primaries, a dark discocellular streak; a wavy oblique 
brown outer line from costa to submedian; a subterminal lunular 
brown line from costa to vein 2. Secondaries, a fine discocellular 
streak; a reddish brown median line almost broken into spots and 
forming a W before inner margin, outwardly shaded with black; the 
subterminal, as on primaries, followed by an ochreous and black spot 
between veins 2 and 3; some marginal faint brownish shadings, and a 
terminal fine brown line on both wings. 
Exixmse. — Nineteen millimeters. 
Tlahitat. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 
Type.—^o. 5956, U.S.N.M. 
THECLA HUMBER, new species. 
Diagnosis. — Female. — Wings metallic blue. Primaries, costa above 
cell and vein 4, also outer margin, black. Secondaries, costal margin 
and apex black; outer margin otherwise narrowly black; a small red 
spot and black point at anal angle. Underneath light brownish gray. 
Primaries, an oblique white outer line, finely wavy, from below costa 
to vein 2; a whitish subterminal shade; a whitish marginal shade. 
Secondaries, the subterminal and marginal shades as on primaries, the 
former interrupted by a red and orange spot, between veins 2 and 3, 
