186 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



ginal band of brown. Posterior wing with a carmine spot between the tails marked with black : 

 the lobe black: the space between the spots irrorated with white : the outer margin black, 

 bordered inwardly with white from the anal angle to the middle of the wing. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Chontales and Espiritu Santo. 



A specimen in the Collection of Mr. Bates is tinted with green and has the brown 

 margins more distinctly defined. 



357. Thecla Collucia, Hewitson. Plate LXXIV. ? figs. 577, 578. 



Upperside. Female. — Dark brown, tinted with grey-blue. Posterior wing with two tails : 

 a white line at the base of the tails : the lobe orange. 



Underside rufescent, tinted with grey-brown beyond the middle. Both wings crossed 

 near the middle by a linear band of black, bordered inwardly with brown on the anterior wing, 

 broadly rufous on the posterior wing, where it is bordered outwardly with white : both wings 

 with a submarginal brown line. Posterior wing with the caudal spot and lobe black, 

 crowned with orange ; the space between them dark brown irrorated with white : the outer 

 margin black, bordered inwardly with white. 



The male is like the female, except that the apex of the anterior wing is 

 more pointed and that the anal angle of the posterior wing is more produced. 



Exp. 1 T V inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



^358. Thecla Cyphara. Plate LXXIV. <j figs. 579, 580. 

 Thecla Cyphara, Hewitson, Entom. Monthly Mar/, p. 106 (1874). 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing dark brown, rufous-orange at the anal angle. Pos- 

 terior wing with two tails : rufous-orange, with the margins brown. 



Underside grey-brown, paler beyond the middle. Both wings crossed beyond the middle 

 by a band of orange bordered outwardly with white, and by a submarginal linear band of 

 dark brown. The lobes and caudal spot black, bordered above with orange, below with white : 

 the space between them irrorated with white. 



Female like the male, except that it is grey-brown, slightly rufous on the 

 posterior wing. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



In the Collections of W. C. Hewitson and Herbert Druce. 



