138 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



the discal spot within the cell, small and pale brown. Posterior wing with two tails, blue, with 

 the costal margin broadly brown. 



Underside pale grey or stone-colour. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a 

 nearly straight rufous band bordered outwardly first with dark brown and then with white : a 

 submarginal band of pale brown. Posterior wing nearly white from the middle to the outer 

 margin : crossed at the middle by an irregular band of six brick -red spots bordered outwardly 

 first with black and then with white, the first spot at the costal margin large, the second 

 (which is minute), the fourth (which is bifid), and the fifth form the band, whilst the third is 

 within the rest and nearer the base, the sixth triangular : a submarginal band of lunular 

 brown spots : the lobe and the spot between the tails (which is marked by a small black spot) 

 orange. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a uniform dark brown on the 

 upperside, with a white line above the tail and the fringe. 



Exp. yo inch. 



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



Some examples of this species are without the spot of the band on the underside of the 

 posterior wing which I have described as within the others and nearer to the base. 



230. Thecla Picentia. Plate LV. ? figs. 328, 329. 

 Thecla Picontia, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 23. 



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

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



Underside rufous, pale, tinted with orange. Both wings crossed by a broad brick-red 

 band bordered outwardly with black and white. Anterior wing with the band broadest near 

 the costal margin : a submarginal pale rufous band. Posterior wing with the band unusually 

 broad, unbroken, clouded with rufous-brown outside : the lobe and usual spot black crowned 

 with orange and clouded above with brown : an indistinct brown band near the outer margin, 

 and a submarginal white line. 



Exp. -L» inch. 



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



231. Thecla Ceglusa. Plate LV. <j figs. 330, 331. 

 Thecla Ceglusa, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 22. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins and 

 apex (where it is broad) dark brown : the discal spot small, brown, indistinct, beyond the cell. 

 Posterior wing with two tails : the lobe rufous bordered with black : the outer margin black 



