164 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



the tails each crowned with scarlet : the outer margin broadly brown : a marginal line of 

 white. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



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



Near to T. Danaus of Felder, from which, however, it is quite distinct. 



293. Thecla Timoclea. Plate LXIV. d figs. 449, 450. 

 Thecla Timoclea, Hewitson, Equal. Lep. p. 59, 1870. 



Upperside. Male. — Violet-blue. Anterior wing with an oblong brown discal spot 

 within the cell, the costal and outer margins and apex broadly dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with two tails : the apex and outer margin dark brown : the lobe large marked by a small 

 scarlet spot. 



Underside dark brown, paler towards the outer margins. Both wings crossed by two 

 submarginal bands of dark brown. Anterior wing with the dark brown of the base bounded 

 by darker brown beyond the middle. Posterior wing with a spot near the base, some 

 indistinct spots forming a band at the middle, and three spots towards the apex all blue-white : a 

 linear white spot near the middle of the costal margin : the caudal spot crowned with red : 

 a minute spot of white above the lobe, and above it a linear red spot. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



294. Thecla Carteia. Plate LXIV. <? figs. 451, 452. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant morpho-blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin, the 

 apex (which is broad), and the outer margin black. Posterior wing with one tail : brown 

 and polished where the wings meet : the fringe dark brown. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a very narrow 

 band of white bordered inwardly with rufous-brown : of lunular spots on the anterior wing . 

 very irregular and broken into spots and much beyond the middle on the posterior wing. 

 Anterior wing paler where the wings meet, brown under the projecting shoulder of the posterior 

 wing. Posterior wing with a submarginal zigzag band of brown bordered on both sides with 

 white : the lobe and a spot between the tails black bordered above with scarlet : the outer 

 margin brown bordered inwardly with white. 



Exp. l/u inch. 



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



