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262. Thecla Beera. Plate LIX. <j figs. 390, 391. 

 Thecla Beera, Hewitson, 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 band 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. 1-^j 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. 



263. Thecla Arola. Plate LX. 6 figs. 392, 393. 



Thecla Arola, Boisduval, MS. ; Hewitson, Descr. of Lyccmidae, p. 28, 1868. 



Upperside. Male. — Rufous-brown. The inner margin of the anterior wing, and the 

 whole of the posterior wing, except the apex which is brown, pale lilac-blue. Posterior wing 

 with two tails : two spots of brown at the base of the tails : the lobe rufous. 



Underside rufous-white. Both wings with a linear spot at the end of the cell : both 

 crossed at the middle by a band of rufous-orange spots, the three lowest spots on the anterior 

 wing single : the first two spots on the posterior wing separate : both wings with a submarginal 

 band of lunular brown spots bordered above with white, both with the outer margin orange. 

 Posterior wing with a subbasal band of four orange spots (one minute) : the lobe and usual 

 black spot crowned with orange. 



Exp. l^o" inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Boisduval, from Brazil. 



264. Thecla Cardus. Plate LX.figs. d 395, 396, $ 394. 

 Thecla Cardus, Boisduval, MS. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing dark brown, with the inner margin pale blue. Pos- 



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Published December 1st, 1874. 



