14S DIURNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



margin where it is broadly blue. Posterior wing with two tails : the outer margin dark 

 brown, narrow. 



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

 band bordered outwardly with white, followed by two submarginal bands of brown spots. 

 Posterior wing with two brown spots near the base : crossed at the middle by a band of rufous 

 spots followed by a number of irregularly placed rufous-brown spots bordered outwardly with 

 with white : a rufous spot between the tails marked with black. 



Exp. T 7 y inch. 



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



254. Thecla Buphonia. Plate LVIII. d fig. 374. 

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



Upperside. Male. — Rufous-brown. Posterior wing with one tail. 



Underside orange-yellow. Both wings crossed near the middle by a broad rufous band 

 bordered on both sides with brown : its outer border, which is the usual linear band, ends near 

 the inner margin of the posterior wing in a large white W bordered inwardly with black. The 

 lobe black, the space next it at the base of the tail black irrorated with white and bordered 

 above with white and above that to the W with orange. 



Exp. li inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and H. W. Bates, from the Amazon (Obydos). 



In some specimens the posterior wing is grey-brown on the upperside. 



255. Thecla Calatia, Hewitson. Plate LVIII. ? fig. 375. 



Upperside. Female. — Grey-brown. Posterior wing with two tails : a submarginal white 

 line at the base of the tails. 



Underside orange-yellow with the base dark red-brow r n : crossed beyond the middle by 

 a broad red-brown band traversed by a line of white (the usual band), which ends near the 

 inner margin of the posterior wing in a w : hite W : the lobe and anal angle red-brown. 



Exp. -Jrf inch. 



In the Collections of T. Belt and W. C. Hewitson, from Nicaragua (Chontales) . 



256. 



Thecla Demonassa. Plate LVIII. figs. <j 376, 378, ? 377. 



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



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail : brilliant inorpho-blue, 

 with the anal angle dark brown : the lobe rufous. 



Underside ochreous, tinted with orange. Both wings with a white line at the end of the 

 cell : both crossed near the middle by a broad brick-red band bordered outwardly by the 



