84 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, tbe outer band bordered outwardly with tbe same colour : the anal angle with a small 

 indistinct scarlet spot with its centre black : the lobe black. 



Exp. 1A| inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Rio de Janeiro. 



. 57. 



57. Thecla Erybathis. Plate XXXIV. 6 figs. 58, 59. 

 Theela Erybathis, Boisduval, MS. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue-green. Both wings broadly bordered with dark brown. 

 Posterior wing with two tails. 



Underside rufous-brown, tinted with lilac from the middle to the inner margin of the 

 anterior wing. Both wings crossed by three broad bands of white, short on the anterior 

 wing. Posterior wing with the inner margin, two lines- parallel to it, and a band near the 

 outer margin white : the anal angle black, marked by a large T-formed spot of orange. 



Exp. l|i inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and Dr. Boisduval, from Mexico. 



This beautiful species scarcely differs from T. Battus on the underside. 



. 58. Thecla Battus. 



Papilio Battus, Cramer, pi. 51. f. F, G. 



Hesperia Bathis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 272. 



Polyommatus Bathis, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 628. 



Thecla Battus, Westwood, Gen. Dium. Lep. p. 483. 



$ . Pseudolycocna Buthildis, Felder, Reise der Novara, pi. 31. f. 19, 20. 



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



T 59. Thecla Phydela, Heioitson. Plate XXXIII. figs. <$ 56, $ 54, 55. 



Upperside. Male. — Cerulean blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins 

 broadly dark brown. Posterior wing with the outer margin broadly white traversed by a 

 band of grey : anal angle grey, with two tails marked near their base by two brown spots ; 

 above these two indistinct rays of white having their origin near the middle of the wing. 



Underside grey, crossed by numerous bands of white. Anterior wing with three broad 

 bands at and below the middle and a submarginal line of the same colour. Posterior wing 

 crossed by eight bands of white, converging at the anal angle, one linear from near the base, 

 three broad as on the anterior wing, followed by a narrow submarginal band, and three linear 

 bands near the inner margin : the apex broadly orange, marked by three black spots : the 

 space which separates the second and third broad bands of each wing is traversed by a line of 

 grey-white. 



Female like the male, except that it is without any blue. 



Exp. 1-5% inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Rio de Janeiro. 



