144 DIUKNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



bordered above with white and orange : the spot between the tails large, orange, marked by a 

 black spot. 



Exp. T 7 u inch. 



In the Collection of H. W. Bates, from the Amazon. 



The underside is not figured, because it does not differ from the last except in the greater 

 regularity in the arrangement of the lunular white spots near the margin on the underside. 



244. Thecla Alda, Heuntson. Plate LVII. 6 figs. 355, 356. 

 Thecla Alda, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 25. 



Upperside. Male. — Lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margin broadly 

 brown : the discal spot small, round, dark brown, beyond the cell. Posterior wing with two 

 tails : the fringe near them brown and white. 



Underside rufous, pale. Both wings with a line at the end of the cell : both crossed 

 near the middle by a band of brown, rufous above, white below, commencing on the costal 

 margin of the posterior wing by an isolated spot : both with a submarginal line of white. 

 Anterior wing with a submarginal band of brown. Posterior wing with some brown spots near 

 the base, one larger than the rest near the costal margin, two in the middle of the wing, and 

 one near the inner margin : an irregular broad submarginal band irrorated with brown and 

 white : the lobe and usual spot black, crowned with orange. 



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

 upperside, with a line at the base of the tails and the fringe white, and somewhat pale on the 

 underside. 



Exp. $ inch. 



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



, 245. Thecla Azia, Heivitson. Plate LVII. d figs. 357, 358. 



Upperside. Male. — Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the discal spot dark brown, 

 indistinct. Posterior wing with one tail : a line at the base of the tail, the fringe, and some 

 hair at the anal angle white. 



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

 slightly dentated rufous band, bordered outwardly with white, and near the outer margin by 

 a series of lunular brown spots bordered inwardly with white : the outer margin rufous. 

 Posterior wing crossed at the middle by a broken band of scarlet spots, bordered outwardly 

 with white, the first spot on the costal margin and the third largest : the lobe and spot be- 

 tween the tails scarlet, each marked with a black spot : the outer margin rufous near the apex, 

 black below the tail : a double series of pale brown spots from the apex to the orange spot. 



