124 DIURNAL LEPLDOPTERA. 



this side of the wing) is bordered outwardly with white : the apex grey-white. Posterior wing 

 marked near the centre by several indistinct irregular lunular spots of pale colour: a submarginal 

 band of pale spots : a black spot between the tails crowned with orange : the anal angle grey. 

 Female. — Dark brown, except the inner half of the posterior wing, which is 

 cerulean blue : the lobe of the anal angle and three spots near it dark brown. The underside 

 is like that of the male. 



Exp. 1-ij inch. 



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



A variable species. In some specimens the blue on the posterior wing is confined to the 

 marginal lunular spots. 



193. Thecla Ocrida, Hewitson. Plate XLVIII. figs. <j 233, ? 234. 



J Thecla Ocrida, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 5. no. 11. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing blue from the inner margin to the 

 first median nervure : the discal spot large and of two colours. Posterior wing blue, with two 

 tails : the margins dark brown. 



Underside grey, clouded with dark brown from the base to beyond the middle. Both 

 wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of dark brown, paler on its outer border. An- 

 terior wing with a submarginal brown band. Posterior wing with the anal angle yellow : the 

 lobe and the spot near it black. 



Female with the upperside dark grey-brown : the posterior wing with a line 

 of white above the tails : the underside as in the male, except that the anal angle of the 

 anterior wing is yellow, and the whole outer margin of the posterior wing broadly yellow, 

 marked by small submarginal spots of brown. 



Exp. l^jinch. 



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



194. Thecla Thyesta, Hewitson. Plate XLIX. j figs. 248, 249. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the margins dark brown : the 

 discal spot black. Posterior wing with two tails. 



Underside pale, stone-colour. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of white 

 bordered inwardly with brown, both with some scarcely seen submarginal spots : the lobe and 

 the spot between the tails orange, each marked by a black spot bordered above and below with 

 white. 



Exp. l^lj inch. 



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



This species is near to T. Tephrmus. 



