THECLA. 141 



Female like the male, except that the upperside is of a uniform rufous 

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



Exp. -fV inch. 



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

 de Janeiro. 



Plate LVI. figs. 6 342, 2 340, 341. 



Bithys Phrutus, Buhner's Zutrlige, figs. 703, 704. 

 Thecla Fidentia, Hewitson, Descr. of Tlieda, p. 32. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown, with the discal spot darker and of irregular form. 

 Posterior wing with two tails : cerulean blue, with the costal half dark brown : two black spots 

 at the anal angle. 



Underside. Anterior wing rufous-brown, with a spot at the end of the cell and a band 

 beyond the middle which is broken at the median nervure, brick-red : the apex white, irro- 

 rated with carmine : the fringe carmine. Posterior wing white, clouded, especially near the 

 base, with grey-brown : a band of spots near the base, a line at the end of the cell, a band of 

 spots at the middle, a submarginal band of spots, the lobe and the outer margin all carmine : 

 the space between the two lower bands irrorated with carmine. 



Female like the male, except that on the upperside the inner margin of the 

 anterior wing and a larger portion of the posterior are blue. 



Exp. T 8 u inch. 



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

 and Rio de Janeiro. 



Since describing the butterfly represented at fig. 340 as a distinct species, I have received 

 several examples from Rio de Janeiro, which evidently connect it with fig. 342 and Hubner's 

 figure. 



/"^S^ThgcJa-Zilda, Hewitson. Plate LVI. $ figs. 343, 344. 



Upperside. Female. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with the inner margin near its base 

 slightly blue. Posterior wing with two tails : pale cerulean blue, with the apex brown. 



Underside white clouded with grey at the middle of the anterior wing : a line at the end 

 of the cell, a band beyond the middle bordered outwardly with white, and a submarginal band 

 dark brown : the fringe brown. Posterior wing with two dark brown spots near the base, a 

 band of rufous spots at the middle bordered outwardly with black, commencing on the costal 

 margin by a square spot : the apex brown marked with darker brown : the lobe and a spot 

 between the tails orange, each marked with black ; the wing above them irrorated with brown 



Exp. ij] inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson from Rio de Janeiro. 



