74 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



16. Thecla Latreillii. Plate XXIX. 6 figs. 8, 9. 



Upperside. Male. — Metallic blue, the margins rufous-brown. Anterior wing with 

 the base of the costal margin densely clothed with hair. Posterior wing of extraordinary 

 form : the abdominal margin deeply siuuated above the lobe : the lobe grey-brown. 



Underside rufous. Anterior wing with a spot at the end of the cell, two transverse 

 bands beyond the middle, and a submarginal line of rufous-brown. Posterior wing with two 

 black spots at its base, a transverse broad angular band before the middle, a band of small 

 irregular dark brown spots beyond the middle, followed by two bands of obscure rufous -brown 

 lunular spots. 



Exp. 1-j^y inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval, from Java. 



Differing from them as this species does, in form and in the unusual decoration of tbfe 

 underside, I do not at all doubt that it is rightly placed here. It has the very short terminal 

 joint of the palpi common to the males of this group ; the singular hirsute base of the costal 

 margin of the anterior wing is equally remarkable in the next two species, T. Satyroides and 

 T. Temathea. 



I 17. Thecla Satyroides, Heivitson. Plate XXIX. figs. <j 10, 12, 2 13. 



Upperside. Male. — Dull cerulean blue, the margins rufous-brown. Anterior wing with 

 the base of the costal margin densely clothed with hair. Posterior wing with a submarginal 

 white hue : a brown spot at the anal angle broadly bordered with orange. 



Underside lilac- and rufous-grey : the margins dark brown : the fringe white, traversed by 

 a rufous line. Both wings crossed by two rufous-brown bands. Anterior wing with a line at the 

 end of the cell, and two submarginal linear bands. Posterior wing with a broad submarginal 

 band of white bordered inwardly with brown, and enclosing a band of lunular spots, two near 

 the apex black, the rest blue : the two black spots near the anal angle crowned with orange. 

 Female rufous-brown on both sides, on the upperside darker towards the 

 margins. The bands and spots of the underside like those of the male, but paler. 



Exp. d l T 8 n , $ 1-& inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Amazon. 



18. Thecla Temathea, Hewitson. Plate XXIX. tf fig. 11. 



Upperside. Male. — As in T. Satyroides. 



Underside. Anterior wing as in T. Satyroides. Posterior wing grey or rufous-white : the 

 base and three transverse equidistant bands (less oblique than in the last species) rufous-brown : 

 the submarginal band broader, enclosing pyramidal bifid spots, the caudal spot larger. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Amazon. 



