86 DIURNAL LEPLDOPTERA. 



wing with a narrow margin of brown : the anal angle, which has two tails, is marked by a 

 brown spot irrorated with white. 



Underside white. Both wings with the outer margins brown; both crossed by four 

 bands of brown. Posterior wing with a linear band of brown near the inner margin divided 

 into two bands below its middle : a band of orange near the outer and abdominal margins. 



Exp. 1-j^ inch. 



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



Very nearly allied to the last species, differing from it only in having the discal spot traversed 

 by a white nervure, in having the bands much narrower, and in beiug (as in the variety of Lincus 

 which I have figured) without the submarginal band on the underside of the posterior wing. 



66. Thecla Palegon. 



Papilio Palegon, Cramer, pi. 282. f. C, D. 

 Polyommatus Palegon, Godart, Enc. Metli. p. 629. 

 Thecla Palegon, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 483. 

 Papilio Myrtillus, Cramer, pi. 380. f. B, C. 



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



67. Thecla -Ethesa. Plate XXXIII. $ fig. 57. 

 Thecla jEthesa, Boisduval, MS. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown, the margins broadly dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with one tail : the anal angle near its base marked with a submarginal white line. 



Underside rufous. Both wings with the outer margins brown. Anterior wing with 

 three bands of dark brown : the outer margin orange near the anal angle. Posterior wing 

 with four bands of brown : two Knes of brown between the second and third band : the third 

 band bordered inwardly with white and traversed by a line of white : a linear band (divided 

 into two below the middle) near the inner margin : the space between the first and second and 

 third and fourth bands pale yellow : a band of orange near the outer and abdominal margins. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval, from Bahia. 



68. Thecla Melibceus. 



Hesperia Melibceus, Fabrichts, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 271. 

 Polyommatus Meliboeus, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 029. 

 Papilio Melibceus, Donovan, Insects of India, pi. 41. f. 1. 

 Thecla Melibceus, JFestivood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 483. 

 Iolaus Eurysides, Hiibner, Zutr. f. 297, 298. 



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



