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put this and it as varieties of the same species, supposing the difference between them to be 

 one of colour only. I now find, however that whilst the female T. Ttjmpania is, like the male, 

 blue, the female of T. Bethulia is entirely brown. 



206. Thecla Teucria, Hewitson. Plate LII. ? fig. 290. 

 Theela Teucria, Hewitson, Descr, of Thecla, p. 3. no. 7. 



Upperside. Female. — Dark brown, with two small white spots and a line of white at the 

 anal angle of the posterior wing. 



Underside green. Anterior wing brown towards the outer margin : crossed beyond the 

 middle by a band of white bordered inwardly with brown, and by a submarginal band of the 

 same colour from the anal angle to the middle. Posterior wing with two tails ; crossed at the 

 middle by a band of white spots : the apex (which is marked by a white spot) and the anal 

 angle (which is irrorated with grey and marked by two black spots) very broadly carmine, the 

 space between them and two conical outline spots white : a submarginal band of white ; the 

 margin black. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson, from the Amazon. 



207. Thecla Tegula, Hewitson. Plate LII. 6 figs. 291, 292. 

 Thecla Tegula, Hewitson, Descr. of Tliecla, p. 4. no. 8. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark grey-brown. Anterior wing with an unusually long discal 

 spot. Posterior wing with some grey lunular spots near the anal angle. 



Underside rufous-grey. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of white 

 broken into lunular spots on the posterior wing. Anterior wing with some submarginal 

 brown spots bordered on both sides with white. Posterior wing with two tails : a white spot 

 on the middle of the costal margin : the anal angle (which is irrorated with white and marked 

 by two black spots) and the apex (which is bordered on both sides with white) carmine : the 

 space between them irrorated with white. 



Exp. l T 2 u inch. 



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



208. Thecla Terentia, Hewitson. Plate LII. ? figs. 282, 283. 

 Thecla Terentia, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 2. no. 4. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown, darker at the outer margins, slightly tinted with 

 lilac near the base. Posterior wing with a submarginal line of white. 



Underside grey-brown. Both wings crossed at and beyond the middle by two pale yel- 



