158 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



at the end of the cell : both crossed beyond the middle by a broken band of rufous spots 

 bordered outwardly with white. Anterior wing with a submarginal band of brown spots bor- 

 dered above and below with white. Posterior wing with five or six subbasal rufous spots : 

 several submarginal pale brown spots : the lobe and spot at the base of the tails black bordered 

 above with orange. 



Exp. l T 2 jj inch. 



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



278. Thecla Yojoa. 



Thecla Yojoa, Reakirt, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. p. 339, 1866. 



Thecla Daraba. Plate LXIL figs, d 425, 426, $ 424 ; also Plate XXXVI. fig. 89. 



Thecla Beroea, Heivitson, Descr. of Lyccmidce, p. 14, 1868. 



Upperside. Male. — -Brown. Anterior wing with a dark brown discal spot within the 

 cell. Posterior wing with one tail : the lobe, which is partly rufous, and two spots at the base 

 of the tails black. 



Underside pale stone-colour. Both wings with a linear white spot at the end of the 

 cell : both with a continuous band beyond the middle bordered outwardly with white, and two 

 submarginal bands of pale brown spots bordered above with white. Posterior wing with two 

 subbasal white bands : the lobe and the spot at the base of the tails black, crowned with 

 orange. 



Female like the male, except that it has a large dark brown discal spot on 

 the anterior wing, and two or three brown spots near the outer margin of the posterior wing 

 broadly bordered above with white. 



Exp. 1-jV inch. 



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



Misled by the much greater size of the Mexican specimens and the strongly marked discal 

 spot of the male, I was induced to describe this as a species distinct from those I have from 

 Guayaquil and the Amazon. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Edwards, of Philadelphia, who has generously given me the 

 several species of Thecla described by Reakirt from his collection, enabling me to ascertain 

 with certainty what they are, to correct his errors, and erase some of my own names which 

 were given before I could receive his descriptions. 



I 279. Thecla Crossoea, Hewitson. Plate LXIL fig. 427. 



Upperside rufous-brown. Posterior wing irrorated with blue near the base : the lobe 

 and some spots near it dark brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing rufous : crossed near the apex by a broken irregular band of 



