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300. Thecla Aunia, Hewitson. Plate LXV. tf figs. 464, 465. 



Upperside. Male. — Cerulean-blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and the 

 apical half dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails : the apex and outer margin dark 

 brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a curved white linear band, and 

 near the outer margin by a band of dull spots also white. Posterior wing with two tails ■. crossed 

 at the middle by a linear band of white and beyond this by a band of white spots, and again 

 near the margin by some indistinct lunular white spots : the lobe and the spot between the 

 tails black crowned with orange. 



Exp. 1-fo inch. 



In the Collection of Herbert Druce, from Venezuela. 



This is very closely allied to the last, from which it differs in the paler blue of the upper- 

 side : on the underside in being without the triangular white spot at the end of the band of 

 the anterior wing, which I now think from further experience is only a sexual distinction. 



301. Thecla Pactya, Hewitson. Plate LXVI. j figs. 466, 467. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant cerulean-blue : the nervures black. Anterior wing with 

 the costal margin except at the base of the wing, the apex, and outer margin broadly black. 

 Posterior wing with two tails : the apex and outer margin and two caudal spots brown. 



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

 both crossed beyond the middle by a linear band bordered inwardly with black, broken at the 

 middle of the posterior wing : both with a submarginal band of brown bordered inwardly with 

 white : the outer margin brown, the fringe rufous. Posterior wing with the lobe which is 

 crowned with white, and the spot between the tails black broadly bordered above with scarlet : 

 the spot between them dark brown irrorated with white and also crowned with scarlet : a mar- 

 ginal line of white. 



Exp. 1t% inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and H. Druce, from Ecuador and Bogota. 



302. Thecla Fidelia, Hewitson. Plate LXVI. J figs. 468, 469. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant cerulean-blue. Anterior wing with the base of the costal 

 margin rufous : the nervures and the apical half black. Posterior wing with two tails : the 

 nervures towards the outer margin, the apex where it is broad, and the outer margin where it 

 is narrow dark brown. 



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Published December 1st, 1874. 



