92 DIUBNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



90. Thecla Atena, Hewitson. Plates XXXVI. XXXVII. 6 figs. 93 x 101. 



Upperside. Male. — Very brilliant glossy blue, with the margins dark brown. Anterior 

 wing with the discoidal spot small, dark brown. Posterior wing with one tad. 



Underside rufous. Anterior wing crossed by a linear white band at the middle. Poste- 

 rior wing with a white spot near the base : a white baud below the middle bordered inwardly 

 with brown : a submarginal band beginning at the apex by two white spots : the anal angle 

 brown irrorated with green : the lobe black, crowned with ochreous-yellow. 



Female like the male, except that the anterior wing is dark brown above, with 

 a small space of blue near the inner margin. 



Exp. I/q inch. 



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



There is in the Collection of Mr. Bates a variety of this species of a brilliant lilac-blue, 

 unequalled by any other butterfly which I have seen ; the nervures of the posterior wing, which 

 are clearly defined by some darker colour between them, add to its beauty. 



91. Thecla Sista, Hewitson. Plate XXXVII. 6 figs. 98, 99. 



Upperside. Male. — Brdliant glossy blue, with the margins dark brown. Anterior wing 

 blue near the inner margin : a large space round the end of the cell of a peculiar dull red- 

 brown, as if accidentally stained : the outer margin broadly brown. Posterior wing with two 

 tails. 



Underside green-grey. Anterior wing crossed by two linear bands of white : the first 

 at the middle bordered inwardly with brown, the second composed of spots bordered outwardly 

 with brown. Posterior wing with a spot near the base and a band near the middle, both white, 

 bordered inwardly with brown : a submarginal band of four white spots : a line of white above 

 the anal lobe : the anal angle and outer margins near it green : the lobe black : a black spot 

 between the tads crowned with orange. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



92. Thecla Athymbra, Hewitson. Plate XXXVI. 6 figs. 91, 92. 



Upperside. Male. — Glossy blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and apical half 

 dark brown : the discal spot large and of two parts, inwardly dark brown, outwardly pale 

 rufous. Posterior wing with one tail: the costal margin broad rufous-brown; the outer 

 margin dark brown, narrow. 



Underside rufous-grey : the base of both wings tinted with carmine. Posterior wing 



