THECLA. 169 



Female like the male, except that it is of a dull lilac-blue above and of a 

 pale stone-colour below. 



Exp. 1-jif inch. 



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

 Druce. 



305. Thecla Cleocha. Plate LXVI. figs. 475, 476. 

 Thecla Cleocha, Hewltson, Equal. Lep. p. 62. 



Upperside cerulean-blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin, the apex, and outer 

 margin, which are very broad, brown. Posterior wing with two tails : a submarginal band 

 of brown broken into spots near the tails : the margin black bordered with white above 

 the tails. 



Underside rufous. Both wings with a white line at the end of the cell : both crossed 

 beyond the middle by a band of white, its inner border first black then rufous, straight on 

 the posterior wing to the W which is very distinct : both crossed near the outer margin by a 

 band of brown bordered ou both sides with dull white : both with a submarginal brown band. 

 Posterior wing with the lobe which is crowned with white, and the spot between the tails, 

 black broadly bordered above with scarlet : the margin black bordered inwardly with white. 



Exp. l^jj inch. 



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



306. Thecla Peona, Hewitson. Plate LXVI. figs. <$ 477, $ 478, 479. 



Upperside. Female. — Cerulean-blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin brown : 

 the nervures black, the apex and outer margin broadly black. Posterior wing with two tails : 

 the apex rufous-brown, the outer margin black : the fringe black traversed by a line of white. 



Underside rufous. Both wings crossed near the middle by a band of white bordered 

 inwardly with rufous-brown : both crossed by two submarginal bands and a marginal line of 

 white, the margin black, the fringe rufous. Posterior wing with the lobe which is crowned 

 with white and the spot between the tails black, the space hetween them grey, all broadly 

 bordered above with orange. 



Male like the female, except that it has an indistinct discoidal spot, and that 

 the outer margin of the anterior wing is not so broadly brown. 



Exp. l-j-Vinch. 



In the Collection of Herbert Druce. 



The underside of the male which I have figured is a variety very obscurely and indistinctly 

 marked. Its upperside is green, but evidently changed from its original blue. My figure of 

 the female is too green. 2 a 2 



