THECLA. 97 



105. Thecla olbia, Hewitson. Plate XXXVI. figs, d 85, $ 86. 

 Var. Thecla phallica, PI. XL. $ fig. 136. 



Upperside. Male. — Cerulean blue. Anterior wing dark brown except near the inner 

 margin : the discoidal spot oblong, half dark brown, half rufous. Posterior wing with one tail : 

 the apex rufous-brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing rufous, with a white line at the end of the cell : the outer 

 margin broadly white, variegated with minute rufous spots. Posterior wing silvery white, 

 clouded with rufous spots, chiefly near the base : crossed at the middle by an indistinct band of 

 white bordered inwardly with brown : anal angle with two scarlet spots (one at the lobe) . 



Female like the male, except that it is rufous-brown above, with the base of 

 both wings grey-blue. 



Var. ? , fig. 136, with much less white at the outer margin of the anterior wing, as well 

 as throughout the posterior wing. 



Exp. «jL»p Sl^inch. 



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



106. Thecla Lausus. 



d . Papilio Lausus, Cramer, pi. 233. f. E. 

 Polyommatus Lausus, Godart, Enc. Meih. p. 630. 

 2 . Papilio Libanius, Cramer, pi. 379. f. H, I. 

 Thecla Lausus, Westwood, Gen. Blum. Lep. p. 484. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing rufous-brown, slightly tinted with lilac-blue near the 

 inner margin and round the discoidal spot : the discoidal spot large, of two colours, its lower 

 half dark brown, the other half rufous. Posterior wing pale lilac-brown, with the costal 

 margin rufous-brown : the outer margin dark brown : the fringe part rufous, part white. 



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



107. Thecla Coniana, Hewitson. Plate XXXVI. <j figs. 86, 87. 



Upperside. Male. — Dull grey-blue (as if washed over the brown) : the base of the 

 costal margin and apex rufous-brown : the discoidal spot of two colours, dark brown below, 

 rufous above. Posterior wing cerulean blue in the centre, dull grey-blue near the costal 

 margin : the outer margin dark brown, with one tail. 



Underside rufous. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a linear white band, and 

 beyond it by an indistinct waved band of white. Posterior wing crossed before the middle by 

 a band of white having above its middle an oval circle also white : the outer half nearly all white, 

 crossed by a band of spots, one of which, above the tail, is scarlet : the lobe scarlet and black. 



