THECLA. 143 



/ 241 . Thecla Telea . Plate LVII. s figs. 350, 351. 

 Thecla Teloa, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 4. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant lilac-blue : the margins dark brown, very narrow. Poste- 

 rior wing with two tails. 



Underside bright green, with the fringe rufous-brown. Both wings crossed sometimes 

 beyond the middle by some very indistinct brown spots bordered outwardly with white, silvery 

 white where it takes the form of a W on the posterior wing and bordered inwardly with red- 

 brown : the anal angle broadly brick-red bordered above and below with silvery white. 



Exp. ^j inch. 



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



242. Thecla Asa, Hewitson. Plate LVII. <J figs. 353, 354. 

 Thecla Asa, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 29. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue. Anterior wing with more than the outer half dark brown, 

 darker at the centre of the wing : the discal spot, which is scarcely visible, within the cell. 

 Posterior wing with two tails : the outer margin dark brown, narrow. 



Underside pale stone-colour. Both wings crossed near the middle by a rufous band 

 bordered outwardly with brown and white, placed obliquely and twice broken on the anterior 

 wing, commencing on the posterior wing by an isolated spot : both wings crossed beyond 

 the middle by a band of white lunular spots, placed much out of line on the posterior wing, 

 the spot nearest the inner margin bordered below with orange : both wings with a submarginal 

 band of lunular white spots. Posterior wing with the lobe brown bordered above with white 

 and orange : the spot between the tails large, orange, marked with a black spot. 



Exp. Yij inch. 



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



243. Thecla Carnica, Hewitson. Plate LVII. <y fig- 352. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the apex and outer margin 

 dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails : the outer margin dark brown, narrow. 



Underside pale stone-colour. Both wings with a line at the end of the cell : both 

 crossed near the middle by a rufous band bordered outwardly with black and white, indented 

 and long (reaching to the submedian nervure) on the anterior wing, composed on the posterior 

 wing of isolated spots : both wings crossed near the outer margin by a series of white lunular 

 spots. Posterior wing with a second submarginal band of white spots : the lobe black 



