THECLA. 109 



marginal band of pale blue divided by the nervures : the lobe and a spot near it dark brown 

 bordered above with pink, bordered below and between them with pale blue. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



| 147. Thecla Syncellus. Plate XLVI. 6 figs. 207, 208. 



Papilio Syncellus, Cramer, pi. 334. f. A, B. 

 Polyommatus Syncellus, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 626. 

 Thecla Syncellus, Westwood, Gen. Dlum. Lep. p. 484. 



Female. — Sometimes much larger than the male and of a much paler blue. Anterior 

 wing w r ith the costal margin and more than the apical half dark brown. BfeSerior wing with 

 the costal and outer margin rufous -brown, on the underside rufous. Anterior wing crossed at 

 the middle by a band of brown bordered outwardly with white. Posterior wing with a linear 

 band of white beyond the middle bordered inwardly with brown : a submarginal band of brown 

 very indistinct, except near the anal angle, where it is broadly bordered above with blue-white : 

 the lobe, a spot between the tails, and the space between them (which is irrorated with white) 

 dark brown, all bordered above with orange. 



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



If Godart's description had not fixed the identity of this species, Cramer's figure, which is 

 not at all like it, would not have been legible. 



148 Thecla Bitias. 



Papilio Bitias, Cramer, pi. 104. f. E. Thecla Syncellus, var., of Godart and Westwood. 

 If this is a variety of Syncellus, T. Eribcea must also be one. 



149. Thecla Essus. 



Thecla Essus, Herrhli-Scliiiffer, Samml. aussereurop. Schmet. f. 59, 60. 

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



150. Thecla punctum. Plate XL. <j figs. 132, 133. 



2 . Thecla punctum, Herrkli-Sehaffer, Samml. aussereurop. Schmet. f. 57, 58. 



In the Collection of H. W. Bates, from the Amazon. 



The male is without the small white spot which marks the underside of the posterior wing 

 of the female before the middle. 



151. Thecla Echelta, Hewitson. Plate XLIV. 6 figs. 187, 188. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue. Both wings crossed by a very broad central band of 



