166 D1UKNAL LEPIDOPTEKA. 



a band of lunular spots bordered outwardly by pale brown and nearer the margin by some 

 indistinct triangular spots all white : a spot above the lobe and the spot between the tails 

 which is large and marked by a black spot, orange. 



Exp. ySj inch. 



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



298. Thecla Bosora. Plate LXV. S figs. 459, 460. 

 Thecla Bosora, Hewitson, Equat. Lep. p. 66, 1S70. 



Upperside. Male. — Dull blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins and 

 apex (which is rounded) broadly brown : the discal spot very large and of a brilliant blue. 

 Posterior wing with the outer margin black, narrow, bordered inwardly near the tails with 

 white : the fringe brown traversed by a white line. 



Underside olive-brown, darker towards the outer margins, which are black bordered 

 inwardly with white. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by two linear bauds of white : 

 the first band broken near the inner margin : the anal angle white. Posterior wing crossed at 

 the middle by six detached linear white spots bordered inwardly with black : crossed beyond 

 the middle by a band of seven lunular white spots : a large spot at the lobe (which is black) , a 

 spot between the tails (marked by a black spot), and a spot near the apex all scarlet and bor- 

 dered above by the lunular spots of the transverse band. 



Exp. 1-fo inch. 



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



i 299. Thecla Anthracia, Heivitson. Plate LXV. figs. £ 462, ? 461, 463. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and apical half dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with two tails, the apex and outer margin dark brown : the lobe 

 scarlet. 



Underside rufous-grey. Both wings crossed by two submarginal bands of dull white 

 spots, lunular on the posterior wing. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a 

 straight white linear band, and below it a triangular white spot. Posterior wing with two 

 tails : crossed at the middle by a linear white band : the lobe and spot between the tails black 

 crowned with orange. 



Female like the male, except that the colouring of the upperside is paler 

 and obscure. 



Exp. 1-j^j inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and Henley G. Smith, from Brazd (Rogers). 



The figure of the male ought to be of a darker blue. 



