152 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



terior wing pale blue, the costal and outer margins brown : two tails and two black spots at 

 the base of the tails. 



Underside white. Both wings with the outer margin dark brown, and a submarginal 

 band and series of pale brown spots. Anterior wing with a spot at the end of the cell, and a 

 twice broken band beyond the middle bordered first with dark brown, and outside this with 

 white. Posterior wing with a subbasal band of four or five spots, and a band of several spots 

 at the middle of pale rufous brown bordered with dark brown and white : the lobe and a spot 

 between the tails black, crowned with orange. 



Female like the male, except that the upperside is dark brown, slightly 

 tinted with blue : that the posterior wing has three small white spots near the outer margin : 

 that the underside is tinted with stone-colour, and has the band of the anterior wing less 

 broken. 



Exp. 1 T V inch. 



In the Collections of Dr. Boisduval and W. C. Hewitson, from Brazil. 



265. Thecla Seudiga, Hewitson. Plate LX. d figs. 397, 398. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant ultramarine blue. Anterior wing with the base of the 

 costal margin, the apex (where it is broad), and the outer margin dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with two tails : the apex and outer margin dark brown. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings with a linear spot at the end of the cell, and a sub- 

 marginal series of lunular brown spots broadly bordered on both sides with white. Anterior 

 wing crossed beyond the middle by a rufous band, sinuated on its outer margin, and bordered 

 with brown and white. Posterior wing crossed by a band of four large rufous spots bordered 

 with dark brown : the lobe and the spot between the tails orange, each marked by a black 

 spot : the outer margin and border of the fringe, which is white, dark brown. 



Exp. $j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Brazil. 



Nearly allied to T. Celmus of Cramer. 



266. Thecla Oreala. Plate LX. figs. <S 399, 400, 401, ? 402, 403. 

 Thecla Oreala, Hewitson, Descr. of Lyccenidce, p. 27, 1868. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing lilac-blue from the base below the 

 median nervure : the discal spot large, within the cell. Posterior wing lilac-blue, with the 

 costal margin, which is broad, and the outer margin, which is narrow, dark brown ; two tails 

 and one or two spots of black at their base. 



Underside cinereous, slightly rufous on the anterior wing. Both wings with a spot 



