96 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Underside rufous-grey. Posterior wing crossed near the middle by a band of white 

 spots bordered with brown, commencing on the costal margin by a large white spot : a sub- 

 marginal band of brown spots bordered on both sides with white : anal angle with a scarlet 

 spot marked at its base with black : the lobe black, and the space between them brown, irro- 

 rated with white. 



Exp. ] ^j inch. 



In the Collection of H.W. Bates, from the Amazon (St. Paulo). 



This species scarcely differs on the upperside from T. Ostia and Ophelia ; on the underside 

 it resembles T. Malvania very closely, but is of a very different blue above. 



103. Thecla Avoca, Hewitson. Plate XXXVII. 6 figs. 94, 95. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant glossy blue, slightly tinted with green, with the margins 

 dark brown. Anterior wing with the discoidal spot small and round, rufous. Posterior wing 

 with two tails (one very short). 



Underside rufous-brown, tinted with lilac, darkest on the posterior wing. Anterior 

 wing crossed beyond the middle by a linear band of white, and nearer the margin by a band 

 irrorated with white. Posterior wing dark lilac-brown near the base crossed by a white line, 

 a linear band of white at the middle broadly bordered on both sides with grey from the inner 

 margin to the middle : the remainder of the wing white, with a submarginal band of brown 

 spots, and an orange spot between the tails : the lobe black. 



Exp. 1-& inch. 



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



104. Thecla Falerina, Hewitson. Plate XLIII. <$ figs. 168, 169. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant glossy blue : the outer margins black. Anterior wing with 

 the costal margin and apical half black. Posterior wing of peculiar form, with two tails (one 

 very short) . 



Underside grey. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a linear band of white 

 margined inwardly with brown : a band of two or three indistinct brown spots near the anal 

 angle. Posterior wing with the shoulder projected : a small black spot near the base bordered 

 below with black : a large black spot near the middle of the costal margin : two linear bands of 

 white beyond the middle bordered with brown : anal angle with two brick-red spots : the lobe 

 black : a submarginal white line : the margin black. 



Exp. lpjj inch. 



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



All the examples of this species which I have seen are much smaller than the figure and with 

 the two black spots on the underside of the posterior wing very indistinct. 



