154 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



depending upon the form of this band alone, is sufficiently distinct from T. Basalides. The 

 females are alike. 



268. Thecla Lucena. Plate LXI. 6 figs. 406, 407. 

 Thocla Lucena, Hewitson, Descr. of Lyccenidce, p. 26, 1868. 



Uppersidb. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with the inner margin blue : the 

 discal spot dark brown, within the cell. Posterior wing with two tails : cerulean blue, except 

 the costal and inner margins which are broadly brown : the lobe rufous crowned with white : 

 four spots at the base of the tails and the outer margin black. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings with a submarginal band of brown spots bordered 

 on both sides with white. Anterior wing with a spot at the end of the cell, a hexafid rufous 

 band beyond the middle bordered on both sides with brown and white, the fourth spot pro- 

 jecting beyond the rest. Posterior wing with a small subbasal brown spot : crossed by two 

 bands of rufous spots bordered on both sides with brown : the third and fourth spots of the 

 second band (which is at the middle of the wing) projecting below the rest and bordered above 

 by a brown spot which is traversed by the line at the end of the cell : the lobe and the usual 

 spot black bordered above with orange. 



Exp. l^V inch. 



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



269. Thecla Azuba, Hewitson. Plate LXI. $ figs. 408, 409. 



Upperside. Female. — Rufous-brown. Posterior wing, except the costal margin which is 

 broadly rufous-brown, pale lilac-blue with two tails : the lobe which is crowned with white, 

 two spots at the base of the tails, and the outer margin (which is bordered inwardly with 

 white) black. 



Underside rufous-white. Both wings with the outer margin and two submarginal bands 

 rufous. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a narrow hexafid rufous band, broken 

 at the fourth segment and bordered outwardly with brown and white. Posterior wing crossed 

 at the middle by a band of separate spots bordered outwardly with black and white, the spot 

 on the costal margin apart from the rest : the lobe and spot between the tails black, crowned 

 with orange. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Rio Grande. 



