180 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



333. Thecla Demea, Hewitson. Plate LXX. 6 figs. 533, 534. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant morpho-blue : the margins black. Posterior wing with 

 two tails. 



Underside dull green. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a linear black band 

 bordered outwardly with white. Anterior wing with two or three submarginal brown spots 

 near the anal angle. Posterior wing with a submarginal brown band bordered outwardly with 

 white : the lobe black crowned with white : a large scarlet caudal spot marked with black : 

 the space between them black irrorated with white : a white line at the base of the tails. 



Exp. 1-jJfr inch. 



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



334. Thecla Deniva, Hewitson. Plate LXXI. ? figs. 535, 536. 



Upperside. Female. — Dull indigo-blue, with the margins broadly dark brown. Posterior 

 wing with two tails : the lobe and two caudal spots black : the middle spot crowned with 

 white. 



Underside brown. Both wings with a submarginal band of brown. Anterior wing 

 crossed at and beyond the middle by broad bands of brown, the space between them paler 

 than the rest of the wing. Posterior wing with numerous spots of dark brown : irrorated with 

 white beyond the middle. 



Exp. l-^inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Brazil (Staudinger) . 



335. Thecla Legytha, Hewitson. Plate LXXI. 6 figs. 537, 538. 



Upperside. Male. — Green-blue. Anterior wing with the costal margin and outer half 

 dark brown : a black discal spot at the end of the cell. Posterior wing with two tails : the 

 costal margin broadly brown, the nervures anck<yuter margin which is narrow, black. 



Underside pale grey-brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a linear band 

 of black bordered outwardly with white, short on the anterior wing and composed of five 

 linear spots : both with a submarginal series of brown spots bordered on both sides with 

 white on the posterior wing. Posterior wing with the lobe and caudal spot black crowned 

 with orange. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



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



Nearly allied to T. Endera. 



