118 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



the middle by a broad baud of brown and a submarginal narrow band both bordered on each 

 side with white. Posterior wing crossed by three equidistant brown bands. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



Nearest to T. umbratus. 



177. Thecla Selina, Hewitson. Plate L. $ fig. 255. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown. Posterior wing with two tails : the lobe black, 

 with a small spot of white above it. 



Underside. Anterior wing rufous-brown with two indistinct submarginal brown lines : 

 the anal angle grey. Posterior wing rufous-brown, crossed before the middle by a band of 

 yellow, followed by a broad band of black, traversed by a band of pale-blue spots and a 

 scarcely-seen band of paler colour, succeeded near the outer margin by an ochreous band and 

 by a band at the anal angle of silvery green. 



Exp. 1 j^j inch. 



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



I believed this, the Amazon insect, to be a variety only of T. Pholeus of Cramer, until I 

 had received specimens of that species from Cayenne. I now believe them to be distinct, 

 and, though the males scarcely differ, the females, as will be seen by the figures, are not 

 much like each other. 



178. Thecla Bactriana, Hewitson. Plate L. S figs. 252, 253. 

 Thecla Bactriana, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 11. no. 26. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. The base and inner margin of the anterior wing and 

 the whole of the posterior wing (except the costal margin, which is rufous-brown) blue. 

 Anterior wing with the discal spot before the middle, large, oval, and red-brown. 



Underside pale ochreous. Anterior wing with the costal half (which is marked by a 

 linear spot at the base, a trifid spot at the middle, and two small white spots near the apex) 

 dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails ; a broad band near the base, and a band at the 

 middle (which is marked by several small pale-blue spots) dark brown : two subanal bands of 

 black and a submarginal line of white at the base of the tails. 



Exp. l^inch. 



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



