HYPOLYC/ENA. 6 1 



is black beneath. It has three sub-marginal rows of golden- 

 green spots on the hind-wings, both above and below, and 

 there is an orange blotch on the middle of the hind-margin of 

 the hind-wings beneath , the abdomen is also orange beneath, 

 except at the base. 



It expands two inches or more, and is found in Mexico and 

 Honduias. 



Only four Old-World genera, besides Thecla, are included 

 by Schatz and Rober as belonging to the section with the 

 sub-costal nervure three-branched. They are rather small and 

 delicate Butterflies, generally with two or three long slender 

 tails on the hind-wings ; and the wings have sometimes 

 metallic markings on the under side. We may notice the 

 two most important genera. 



GENUS HYPOLYOENA. 



Ilypolycana^ Felder, Wiener Ent Monatschrift, vi. p. 293 

 (1862); Hewitson, Illustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 48 (1865); 

 Schatz & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii..p. 265 (1892). 



A rather extensive and wide-ranging genus, inhabiting the 

 Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions and Africa. It consists of 

 blue or brown insects, not unlike the typical European species 

 of Thecla in shape and appearance, and generally measuring 

 about an inch and a quarter across the wings, and having two 

 tails on the hind-wings, either of considerable length, in which 

 case one (usually the innermost) is longest ; or equal, and of 

 more moderate length. There are generally two or more 

 black spots, frequently ocellated, at the base of the tails. The 

 fore-wings are sub-triangular. 



H. lara (Linn.), is a small and somewhat aberrant species 

 found in Eas^ Africa, from Abyssinia to the Cape, measuring 



