182 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Posterior wing with one tail, the anal angle projecting : the outer margin and anal angle 

 dark brown. 



Underside red-brown. Both wings darkest at the base and outer margins. Anterior 

 wing with a band of two or three linear white spots near the middle : irrorated beyond these 

 with white, chiefly near the costal margin : the inner margin brown. Posterior wing crossed 

 at the middle by five or six lunular white spots, and irrorated between them and the anal angle 

 by white. 



Female like the male, except that it is of a much duller blue. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



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



340. Thecla Carpophora. Plate LXXII. figs. $ 547, 6 olim figs. 221, 222. 



The figures on this plate, with one exception, are all given better to illustrate species which 

 have been entered or figured in previous parts of this work. 



341. Thecla Polibetes, var. 



Thecla Sedecia, Hewitson. Plate LXXII. <J figs. 548, 549. 



Upperside. Male. — Violet-blue : the margins dark brown. Anterior wing with a large 

 central discal black spot and a small pale brown spot within the cell. Posterior wing with two 

 tails : the lobe slightly irrorated with white. 



Underside brown. Anterior wing crossed a little beyond the middle by a nearly straight 

 unbroken band of black bordered outwardly with blue-white. Posterior wing with a black and 

 white spot near the base : crossed beyond the middle by a band of linear black spots bordered 

 outwardly with pale blue : a submarginal band of pale blue spots chiefly above the tails, and a 

 line of white on the outer margin at the base of the tails : the lobe black, a black subcaudal 

 spot crowned with carmine. 



This is a much more beautiful thing than the ordinary Polibetes. It has the band on the 

 underside of the anterior wing unbroken and the bands of the posterior wing distinctly bor- 

 dered with pale blue. I prefer, however, to consider it a variety of T. Polibetes. 



342. Thecla Erema. Plate LXXII. figs. ? 550, 551, <j olim figs. 179, 180. 



343. Thecla Aphaca. Plate LXXII. 6 figs. 552 and olim fig. 90. 



