140 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



submarginal band of pale brown spots : the lobe and a large spot at the base of the tail scarlet, 

 each marked by a black spot with a white line below them. 



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

 upperside, with the fringe white. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collections of H. W. Bates and W. C. Hewitson, from the Amazon and Cayenne. 



234. Thecla Una, Hewitson. Plate LVI. <J figs. 336, 337. 



Upperside. Male. — Brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot indistinct : the inner 

 margin from its base to beyond its middle broadly white, tinted with blue. Posterior wing 

 white, with the costal and outer margins broadly brown : two tails and two spots of black at 

 the anal angle : the fringe white. 



Underside white. Both wings with a band of lunular brown spots near the outer margin 

 and a submarginal band of paler spots. Anterior wing with several rufous spots bordered with 

 brown, one near the base, one at the end of the cell : a band beyond the middle broken into 

 four parts, the first part near the costal margin composed of three spots, the second and third 

 of two each, and the fourth near the inner margin of one. Posterior wing with several minute 

 rufous spots : four near the base, one at the end of the cell : a central broken band of six 

 or seven : two tails : the lobe and a spot between the tails orange, each marked with black, 

 and between these a brown spot irrorated with lilac-white. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



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



A variable species. In some examples the spots of the underside are very pale and without 

 the brown border : in others the brown border only is marked. 



235. Thecla Celmus. Plate LVI. 6 figs. 338, 339. 

 Papilio Celmus, Cramer, pi. 55. figs. G, H. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing dark brown with the inner margin broadly brilliant 

 cerulean blue. Posterior wing of the same brilliant blue, with two tails : the outer margin 

 dark brown, narrow, the fringe and a line at the base of the tails white. 



Underside white. Both wings crossed by a submarginal band of dark brown spots, in- 

 distinct on the posterior wing. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a zigzag narrow rufous 

 band bordered outwardly with dark brown. Posterior wing with a spot near the base, and a 

 central band of five separate rufous spots : the lobe and a spot between the tails orange, each 

 marked by black. 



