116 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



171. Thecla Carpasia, Hewitson. Plate XLVII. figs. 223, 224. 

 Thecla Carpasia, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 15. no. 35. 



Upperside blue-green : the nervures black. Anterior wing with the outer half dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with two tails : the apex broadly dark brown : the outer margin and 

 anal angle black, marked by a band of silver-blue spots. 



Underside olive-brown, with the nervures of the posterior wing black. Anterior wing 

 with two spots of scarlet and three of silver-green at the base. Posterior wing with the base, 

 the inner margin, and anal angle black, marked by five spots of scarlet and by several spots of 

 silver-green and white, three near the base of the costal margin, one below these, four on the 

 inner margin, and eight at the anal angle. 



Exp. l-j- 8 ^ inch. 



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



This beautiful species comes near to T. Atys. 



172. Thecla Carpophora, Hewitson. Plate XLVII. $ figs. 221, 222. 

 Thecla Carpophora, Heivitson, Descr. of Tliecla, p. 16. no. 36. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue : the margins dark brown, rather narrow. Anterior wing with 

 an oblong discal spot of two parts, half in the cell, half beyond it : anal angle of the posterior 

 wing (which has one tail) irrorated with white. 



Underside red-brown : the base of the costal margin of both wings crimson. Anterior 

 wing with a minute white spot at the base, a line from the costal margin, and two spots below 

 it between the median nervures white. Posterior wing with two or three minute spots at the 

 base, a spot near the base of the costal margin, a circular spot, four spots at the middle, two 

 linear spots near the inner margin, a subanal band, two spots above the lobe, a line at the 

 base of the tail, and part of the fringe white : the lobe and the usual spot black. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



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



173. Thecla Carthaea, Hewitson. Plate XLVII. <J figs. 215, 216. 

 Thecla Carthsea, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 15. no. 34. 



Upperside. Male. — Violet-blue, tinted with green towards the margins. Anterior 

 wing with the apex dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail and three or four spots of gold- 

 green at the anal angle. 



Underside olive-brown : the nervures black. Anterior wing with three spots of scarlet 

 and three spots of gold-green near the base : a trifid spot of gold-green near the middle of the 



