THECLA. 113 



160. Thecla Gadira, Hewitson. Plate XLIV. 2 figs. 181, 182. 



Upperside. Female. — Blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin which is slightly 

 sinuated, and the apical half dark brown. Posterior wing with the margins broadly brown. 



Underside grey. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by three or four linear white 

 spots without a border of brown. Posterior wing with a spot near the middle of the costal 

 margin, and beyond the middle two bands of white spots, indistinct because without the 

 usual border of brown : anal angle with a scarlet spot marked at its base with black : the 

 lobe black. 



Exp. 1/jy inch. 



In the Collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, from Guatemala (Polochic Valley) . 



This species which is of pecidiar form, having the costal margin sinuated as in Symmachia, 

 is apparently without a tail. I have only seen one example, and the tail does not appear to 

 have been broken off. 



, 161. Thecla Stagira, Hewitson. Plates XXXIX. & XLIII. 6 figs. 120, 121, 167. 

 Var. Thecla Erenea. Plate XLII. ^ figs. 1G3, 164. 



Upperside. Male. — Glossy steel-blue, the outer margins brown, narrow. Anterior 

 wing with the discal spot rather large, oblong, of two colours, dark brown and rufous. Poste- 

 rior wing with two tails. 



Underside rufous. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a linear band of spots, 

 brown on the anterior wing, white bordered inwardly with brown on the posterior wing. 

 Posterior wing with a submarginal band of brown spots : anal angle with the lobe black, and 

 a scarlet spot marked at its base with black. 



Var. a. Male (figs. 163, 164). — With the brown on the outer margin of the anterior wing 

 narrower ; the band on the underside of the posterior wing less curved. 



Var. b. Male (fig. 167). — Smaller, with the band on the underside of the anterior wing 

 nearer the outer margin. 



Exp. 1^, var. b. 1^ inch. 



In the Collections of the British Museum and H. W. Bates, from the Amazon (Santarem), 

 and of W. C. Hewitson (variety b), from Rio de Janeiro. 



This species differs considerably both in the position and curve of the band of the underside, 

 so much so in the variety to which I had given the name of Erenea as at first to lead me to 

 suppose that it might be another species. 



162. Thecla Ericusa, Hewitson. Plate XLII. ? fig. 162. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown. Posterior wing with one tail : a submarginal band 

 of dark brown spots bordered below by a white line, and above by pyramidal white spots. 



Underside rufous and grey. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a linear band 



