THECLA. 107 



140. Thecla leucophseus. Plate XXXIX. 3 fig. 125. 



Bithys leucophams, Hiibner, Zutr. f. 87, 88. 



Thecla leucophoeus, Westivood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 485. 



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



141. Thecla Dindymus. Plate XXXIX. s fig. 126. 



Papilio Dindymus, Cramer, pi. 46. f. E, G. 



Thecla Dindymus, Westivood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 485. 



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



142. Thecla Sphinx. Plate XXXIX. 2 fig. 124. 

 Bithys Sphinx, Hiibner, Zutr. f. 635, 636. 

 Thecla Dindymus $ , Westivood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 485. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing dark brown, with a band of blue near the inner mar- 

 gin : the discal spot unusually large, rufous near the base. Posterior wing blue : the costal 

 margin and apex broadly brown, the outer margin narrow. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a rufous brown above with the blue 

 dull and pale. 



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



I have omitted any reference to the descriptions of Fabricius and Godart, since they would 

 be applicable to any of the four species which I have put together on the plate in order to 

 compare the peculiar arrangement of the band of spots by which each of them is crossed. I 

 believe them to be distinct species. Hiibner's figure, which, he says, is that of a female, has the 

 brighter colouring of the male, but without the discal spot. A female in the British Museum 

 has the centre of the anterior wing pale rufous, and the underside of a pure white. 



f 143. Thecla Stilbia, Hewitson. Plate XXXIX. 6 fig. 127. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and apical half dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with two tails (one very short) : the costal margin broadly rufous- 

 brown : the outer margin dark brown, narrow. 



Underside grey, paler towards the outer margins. Both wings crossed beyond the middle 

 by a baud of white spots bordered inwardly with brown, both with a submarginal band of 

 brown spots : anal angle of the posterior wing with the lobe black, and a small scarlet spot 

 between the tails marked with black. 



Exp. l^inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



