THECLA. 155 



270. Thecla Ecliion. Plate LXI. j figs. 410, 411. 



<j> . Thecla Echion, Linncms, Systema Naturae, torn. i. part 2, p. 788. 

 Papilio Echion, Kleeman's Supplement to Roesel, torn. i. tab. vii. figs. 3, 4. 

 3 . Papilio Crolus, Cramer, pi. 333, g, h. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. The inner margin of the anterior wing and the whole 

 of the posterior wing, except the margins, which are dark brown, violet-blue. Anterior wing 

 with the discal spot, which is indistinct, within the cell. Posterior wing with two tails : the 

 fringe near the tails white. 



Underside grey-white, darkest on the anterior wing. Anterior wing crossed beyond the 

 middle by a broad equal rufous band bordered outwardly with brown and white : crossed from 

 near the apex, where it is broken, to near the anal angle by a distinct dark brown band. 

 Posterior wing with a subbasal baud of two large and three small spots : crossed at the middle 

 by a band of seven spots, all brick-red bordered with brown : a submarginal zigzag line of 

 brown : the lobe and a minute spot between the tails dark brown crowned with orange. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a uniform grey -brown, without any 

 spot at the base of the tails : the lobe and outer margin black : a submarginal white line at 

 the base of the tails. 



Exp. l-^inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Brazil, Amazon, and Venezuela. 



I have no hesitation whatever in considering T. Crolus of Cramer to be the same species as 

 Echion of Linnseus. T. Echion of Kleeman's figure, to which Linnaeus refers, is without any 

 spot at the base of the tails on the upperside, and is thus unlike the female of any species 

 except Crolus. Linnseus refers to a red spot at the base of the tails, but this reference is evi- 

 dently to the underside. 



271. Thecla Eurytulus. 



Tmolus Eurytulus, Hubner, Sammlung, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Depending upon Hubner's accuracy, I have not considered this a variety of Basalides 

 (which I should otherwise have done), since he has coloured all the spots of the underside 

 (rufous in Basalides) dark brown. 



f272. Thecla Basalides. Plate LXI. figs. J 414, 415, ? 412, 413. 



Tmolus Basalides, Hubner, Zutrage, figs. 977, 978. 



2 . Tmolus Sophocles, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. pi. 2. fig. 5. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown, blue near the inner margin : a large black discal spot 



