THECLA. 157 



beyond the middle and the posterior wing, except the costal margin, cerulean blue. Anterior 

 wing with a large undefined discal spot. Posterior wing with two tails : two black spots at 

 the base of the tails : the lobe scarlet. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a continuous band 

 of white bordered inwardly with black : both with a submarginal band of brown. Posterior 

 wing with the lobe and a spot between the tails black broadly bordered above with orange. 



Exp. 1-ny inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Cuba and Jamaica. 



275. Thecla Acis. 



Papilio Acis, Drury, vol. i. pi. 1. fig. 2 ; Cramer, pi. 175, c, r. 

 Strymon liars, H'ubner, Sammluny, figs. 1, 2,3, 4. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



2' 



276. Thecla C rethona, Hewitson, Plate LXII. 6 figs. 420, 421. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark blue : the margins dark brown, narrow. Posterior wing with 

 two tails : the lobe brick-red. 



Underside green. Anterior wing with the inner margin broadly grey. Posterior wing with 

 two tails : a minute white spot on the costal margin below the middle, a band of three white 

 spots bordered inwardly with black near the inner margin : and below these (touching them) 

 and reaching to the outer margin, not extending to the apex, a brick-red band marked by two 

 white spots and irrorated with white : the outer margin rufous-brown bordered inwardly with 

 white : the lobe black. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a dull grey-blue above, with the 

 outer half of the anterior wing aud the outer margin of the posterior wing, which is broad, 

 dark brown. 



Exp. l T 3 y inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and Henley Smith, from Jamaica. 



277. Thecla Coronta, Hewitson. Plate LXII. s figs. 422, 423. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with a large black discal spot within 

 the cell and a spot of cerulean blue near the base of the inner margin. Posterior wing with 

 two tails, cerulean blue, with the costal margin and apex broadly dark brown : the lobe and the 

 spot between the tails black, bordered below with white. 



Underside cinereous, darker near the base. Both wings with two linear rufous spots 



