THECLA. 145 



Female like the male, except tliat the inner margin of the posterior wing is 

 broadly pale cerulean blue. 

 Exp. -j% inch. 

 In the Collection ofW. C. Hewitson, from Mexico. 



The specimen (the only one which I had then seen) from which the figure in the plate was 

 copied, has the discal spot so indistinctly marked that it is visible only by the aid of a glass. 

 Others which I have since received have it much more distinct. It is within the cell. 



246. Thecla Calchinia. Plate LVII. 6 figs. 359, 360. 

 Thecla Calchinia, Hewitson, Descr. of Thecla, p. 21. 



Uppeeside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with the inner margin from the base 

 to beyond the middle, and the whole of the posterior wing (except the apex and outer margin, 

 which are dark brown), bright blue. Anterior wing with a large, ill-defined dark brown 

 discal central spot. Posterior wing with two tails : the anal angle with two black spots, 

 bordered below with white. 



Underside white. Both wings with a brown line at the end of the cell : both crossed 

 at the middle by a rufous band bordered on both sides with brown, narrow at its commence- 

 ment on the costal margin of the anterior wing, broader below, commencing on the costal 

 margin of the posterior wing by an isolated spot : both wings crossed by a submarginal band 

 of pale grey-brown lunula! spots. Posterior wing with the lobe black and white, bordered 

 above with orange : the black spot within the tails crowned with orange : the margin black. 



Exp. T 9 C , inch. 



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



247. Thecla Hyccara. Plate LVII. d figs. 361,362. 



Thecla Hyccara, Hewitson, Descr. of Tliecla, p. 7. 



Uppeeside. Male. — Dark brown : the inner margin of the anterior wing from the base 

 to beyond the middle, and the whole of the posterior wing except the costal and outer margins, 

 which are brown, brilliant blue. Posterior wing with two tails and a line of white above them. 



Underside pale grey or stone-colour. Both wings with a brown line at the end of the 

 cell : both crossed at the middle by a dark brown band bordered outwardly with white, of 

 one breadth and nearly straight on the anterior wing, continuous on the posterior wing : 

 both with a submarginal band of indistinct lunular brown spots : the lobe and spot between 

 the tails black broadly bordered above with orange. 



Exp. 1 l inch. 



In the Collection of W. W. Saunders, from the Amazon. 



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Published February lOlh 1873. 



