THECLA. 151 



262. Thecla Beera. Plate LIX. g figs. 390, 391. 



Theola Beera, Hewltson, Equatorial Lepidoptera, p. 65. 



Upperside. Male. — Violet-blue. Anterior wing with the apex (which is broad) and the 

 costal and outer margins (which are narrow) black : the discal spot oval and dark brown. 

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



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

 rufous-brown baud bordered outwardly with white : a submarginal brown band. Posterior 

 wing crossed beyond the middle by a rufous band bordered outwardly first with black and 

 then with white, commencing on the costal margin by a large spot, zigzag near the inner 

 margin : a spot at the lobe and a large spot between the tails (marked by a black spot) scarlet : 

 a white band bordered outwardly with black between these spots and the apex : the outer 

 margin black bordered inwardly with white. 



Exp. l^inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Ecuador (Curaray, Buckley) . 



Nearly allied to T. Temesa, figs. 284, 285, but of a different blue, and with the underside 

 much more distinctly marked. 



