204 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



Underside cinereous. Anterior wing crossed near the apex by a band of five white 

 spots bordered inwardly with rufous-brown. Posterior wing crossed near the middle by a 

 series of lunular white spots bordered inwardly with brown : a spot near the anal angle 

 and the lobe black. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Payta (Gervase Mathew, R.N.). 



418. Thecla Dion. 



Papilio Dion, Schaller's Naturforscher, xxiii. pi. 1. figs. 9, 10, p. 49. 



This species comes near to T. Salona and T. Faunalia, of the group which fills Plate XLIII. 



419. Thecla Ligia, Heivitson. Plate LXXXI. figs, s 670, ? 671, 672. 



Upferside. Male. — Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a discal dark brown spot. 

 Posterior wing with one tail : the inner margin blue : a small brown caudal spot. 



Underside cinereous. Both wings with a linear spot at the end of the cell, both crossed 

 by a band of black (in spots on the posterior wing) bordered outwardly with white and by two 

 submarginal bands of white. Anterior wiug clouded with brown beyond the middle. Posterior 

 wing with the caudal spot (which is slightly bordered with orange) and the lobe black. 



Female like the male, except that the inner margin of the anterior wing 

 and the whole of the posterior wing (a large brown spot at the apex excepted) are pale blue. 



Exp. jjj- inch. 



In the Collection of Henley G. Smith, from Santa Martha. 



420. Thecla Nipcma, Heivitson. Plate LXXXI. figs, s 673, 674, ? 675. ' 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Anterior wing with a dark brown discal spot. Pos- 

 terior wing with one tail : the fringe white. 



Underside cinereous: both wings crossed by a rufous-brown band, bordered outwardly 

 with white, commencing at the costal margin of the posterior wing by a round spot : both with 

 a submarginal series of pale brown spots bordered with white : the lobe and caudal spot black 

 bordered with orange. 



Female like the male, except that the inner margin of the posterior wing 

 is pale blue. 



Exp. -fjj inch. 



In the Collection of Henley G. Smith, from Brazil. 



