THECLA. 193 



380. Thecla Renarius. 



Tmolus Denarius (sic), Butler Sf Bruce, Cist. Ent. p. 100 ; Butler, Lep. Exot. pi. 57. fig. 3. 



I cannot tell whether or not I am right in placing this species here. In this group of 

 butterflies resembling each other so closely, when the best figures of both sides are some- 

 times scarcely adequate to determine a species with certainty, Mr. Butler gives only one side. 



i 381. Thecla Xeneta, Hewitson. Plate LXXVII. j figs. 611, 612. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing indigo-blue, with the costal and outer margins dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with two tails : ultramarine-blue, most brilliant in a favourable light 

 near the outer margin. 



Underside dark brown. Both wings with a linear spot at the end of the cell : both 

 crossed beyond the middle by a black linear band bordered outwardly with paler colour, 

 with white on the W of the posterior wing. Posterior wing with the lobe and caudal spot 

 black, bordered above with rufous-brown. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



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



382. Thecla Vitruvia, Hewitson. Plate LXXVII. j figs. 613 bis. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing black, with the inner margin broadly ultramarine- 

 blue. Posterior wing with two tails : ultramarine-blue (not metallic), with the costal and outer 

 margins dark brown. 



Underside rufous-brown. Both wings crossed by a linear dark brown band bordered 

 outwardly with paler colour on the anterior wing, with white on the posterior wing. Pos- 

 terior wing with the lobe and caudal spot hlack bordered above with brick-red ; the spot be- 

 tween them also crowned with brick-red. 



Exp. £$ inch. 



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



Very nearly allied to T. Thama (figs. 591, 592), from which it differs chiefly in the colour 

 of the blue, which is in Thama, like T. Atnius and T. Cuius, as brilliant as a Morpho. 



383. Thecla Capeta, Hewitson. Plate LXXVII. $ figs. 614, 615. 



Upperside. Female. — Dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails: a large spot of 

 blue at the anal angle : the lobe rufous : two caudal spots black. 



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Published January 1877. 



