108 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTEKA. 



144. Thecla Syedra, Hewitson. Plates XXXIX. & XLI. figs, tf 128, 129, var. 145. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and more than the 

 apical half dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail : the costal margin broadly rufous-brown, 

 the outer margin dark brown, narrow. 



Underside rufous. Both wings crossed by a rather broad band of white bordered inwardly 

 with brown. Posterior wing with a submarginal brown band bordered inwardly with white, 

 commencing near the apex by two brown spots : anal angle with a large spot of scarlet and a 

 smaller one touching the lobe, which is black. 



Female like the male, except that it is larger and rufous-brown above and 

 that the posterior wing has the lobe of the anal angle orange. 



Var. Male (fig. 145) . — The underside paler, the band of the posterior wing commencing 

 at the costal margin in a separate white spot. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



145. Thecla Enenia, Hewitson. Plate XLI. 6 figs. 146, 147. 



Upperside. Male. — Green-blue. Anterior wing with the costal 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 : the anal angle with the lobe slightly spotted 

 with scarlet. 



Underside pale grey, rufous near the apex of the anterior wing. Anterior wing crossed 

 by a linear band of white bordered inwardly with brown, and by a submarginal band of 

 brown spots. Posterior wing crossed at the middle by a rather broad linear band of white, and 

 near the outer margin, which is broadly white, by a band of brown spots, one of which, near the 

 apex, is large : anal angle with a spot of scarlet marked at its base with black : the lobe black. 

 Female like the male, except that it is rufous-brown on the upperside darker 

 near the outer margin of the anterior wing. 



Exp. lyL inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



146. Thecla Eribaea, Hewitson. Plate XLII. d figs. 154, 155. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant violet-blue : the costal and outer margins dark brown, 

 broadest at the apex of the anterior wing. Anterior wing with the diseal spot small, rufous, 

 nearer the base than usual. Posterior wing with one tail. 



Underside rufous. Anterior wing brown from the base to the middle, where it is crossed 

 by a hand of dark brown followed by irrorations of white. Posterior wing with a broad sub- 



