I From tliu I'locc'OiliiiK.s of Hie B:)stoii Society of Natural History, 

 Vol. X\., Jlarch 'i5, 18G8.] 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLY 

 FROM FLORIDA. 



Thecla Juanita. Hf.ad black; a circular pearly white spot 

 between the antenna% another just behinJ the summit of the eyes, 

 a long and slender one in front of, and another behind the eyes; 

 base and centre; of the palpi white; basal half of antennas black (re- 

 mainder broken) ; a transverse plume of mingled black and white 

 hairs on the vertex, behind which is a collar of shorter white hairs; 

 thorax and abdomen well sprinkled above with bright blue scales on a 

 brownish ground ; thorax beneath black ; a white dot on the pleura at 

 the base of either wing; legs black with occasional white scales; abdo- 

 men beneath orange. Wings above blackish-brown; primaries pro- 

 fusely suffused with bright blue (steel blue by reflected light) on the 

 basal half, especially along the middle of the wing, but not between 

 the divarications of the median nervure; fringe black tipped with 

 gray; secondaries somewhat suffused with bright blue, especially along 

 the area occupied by the median nervure and its divarications; there 

 are two long tails; the upper is the extension of the middle median 

 nervule, the lower, which is twice as long as the other, is the contiuua- 



