172 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



312. Thecla Thoana, Hewitson. Plate LXVII. 2 fig. 490. 



Upperside. Female. — Grey-brown. Anterior wing dark brown towards the outer 

 margin. Posterior wing with two tails and a line of white near them : the lobe scarlet bor- 

 dered below with black, above with white. 



Underside grey-brown or stone-colour, paler towards the outer margins. Both wings 

 crossed beyond the middle by a band of white bordered inwardly with dark brown and by a 

 submarginal brown band. Posterior wing, with the lobe, a spot near it, and the spot between 

 the tails, black crowned with scarlet : a marginal line of white at the base of the tails. 



Exp. l-[% inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Nicaragua. 



313. Thecla Arindela, Hewitson. Plate LXVII. d figs. 491, 492. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant dark blue, slightly tinted with green. Anterior wing with 

 a small round discal brown spot within the cell. The costal margin which is narrow, the 

 apex and outer margin which are broad, and the nervures near the margin, black. Posterior 

 wing with the apex broadly brown : the outer margin, which is narrow, black. 



Underside grey-brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of white : 

 followed on the anterior wing near the inner margin by two lunular indistinct white spots, 

 broken widely apart at the middle of the posterior wing. Posterior wing with a small white 

 spot near the base of the costal margin, a submarginal band of white commencing above the 

 apex by an isolated spot of white : the lobe black : the black spot between the tails broadly 

 bordered above with scarlet : a marginal white line near the tails. 



Exp. l^xr inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Nicaragua (Chontales, Belt). 



One of the largest and most beautiful of the genus. The body is irrorated with brilliant 

 blue, and the underside of the abdomen is orange. It was generously given to me by 

 Mr. Belt. 



/ 314. Thecla Theia. 



Thecla Theia, Hewitson, Equal. Lei). P- 60. 



Thecla ^Ethesa. Plate LXVIII. $ figs. 493, 494. 



Upperside. Female. — Green. Anterior wing with the costal and outer margins broadly 

 dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail and a line of white at the base of it : the apex and 

 outer margin brown. 



Underside grey-brown. Both wings crossed by four bands of dark brown : the first 

 near the base (short on the anterior wing), the second at the middle, the third beyond the 



