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at the first median nervule of the anterior wing, forming a large and distinct W on the posterior 

 wing : both crossed by a submarginal band of white bordered outwardly with brown and 

 again with white. Anterior wing white and polished where it meets the lower wing, except 

 below the shoulder, where it is black. Posterior wing with the shoulder much projected : the 

 lobe and a small spot above the tail black bordered above with scarlet : the outer margin 

 brown bordered above with white : the fringe white. 



Exp. I 1 inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Ecuador (Curaray, Buckley) . 



Near to T. Acameda, from which it differs in having a discal spot, as well as in its colour, which 

 is of an inimitable blue glossed with green. 



291. Thecla Calesia. Plate LXIV. figs. 445, 446. 

 Thecla Calesia, Hewitson, Equat. Lep. p. 67, 1870. 



Upperside dark brown : the basal half of both wings brilliant green-blue. Posterior wing 

 with two tails, the lobe large and projecting. 



Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a line before the middle, another at the 

 end of the cell, and a band of four linear spots beyond the middle all pale blue : some zigzag 

 white spots near the apex, the outer margin rufous. Posterior wing irrorated near the base 

 with pale blue : crossed near the middle by an irregular band of pale blue lines : the lobe, a 

 spot between the tails, and a spot outside of this black bordered above with rufous-yellow : 

 some minute blue spots near the base of the tails : the space between the black spots irrorated 

 with white. 



Exp. l^o inch. 



In the Collections of Herbert Druce, from Venezuela, and of W. C. Hewitson, from 

 Ecuador (Curaray, Buckley). 



292. Thecla Appula, Hewitson. Plate LXIV. <$ figs. 447, 448. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant green-blue, the nervures black : the costal margin and the 

 apex and outer margin which are broad, black. Posterior wing with two tails, the apex and 

 outer margin dark brown : the lobe brick-red. 



Underside stone-colour. Anterior wing crossed at the middle by a linear continuous 

 band of white, crossed beyond the middle by two bands irrorated with white. Posterior wing 

 with a line of white near the costal margin and the base : crossed at the middle by a band of 

 linear spots, and beyond this by a band irrorated with white : the lobe and the spot between 



