THECLA. 209 



Underside white with the base rufous. Both -wings crossed below the middle by a rufous 

 band (broad on the posterior wing and traversed by a white line), by a second band which is 

 undulate on the posterior wing, and by a submarginal series of pale rufous spots. Posterior 

 wing with an eye-like spot on the costal margin. 



Female like the male, except that the anterior wing is more clouded with 

 brown, that the posterior wing has the base and a submarginal band brown marked by some 

 black caudal spots, and that the underside has the bands darker and more defined. 



Exp. 6 U, ? l^j inch. 



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



434. Thecla Quaderna. Plate LXXXIII. figs. 703, 704. 

 Thecla Quaderna, Hewitson, Descriptions of Lyccenidce, p. 35. 



Upperside dark brown : the fringe rufous-orange. Anterior wing with the inner margin 

 from its base to its middle and the whole of the posterior wing (except the apex, which is 

 broadly brown) cerulean-blue. Posterior wing with some submarginal black spots. 



Underside pale grey or stone-colour. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band 

 of orange spots bordered outwardly with white, commencing on the costal margin of the 

 posterior wing by an isolated spot much within the rest. Anterior wing with a small brown 

 spot at the middle of the inner margin. Posterior whig with a submarginal band of orange 

 spots. 



Exp. 1-2% inch. 



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



435. Thecla Argerona, Hewitson. Plate LXXXIII. figs. 705, 706. 



Upperside dark brown. Anterior wing blue near the base. Posterior wing with one 

 tail : blue with the margins broadly brown : a black caudal spot. 



Underside grey or rufescent, pale. Both w : iugs crossed beyond the middle by a band of 

 white bordered inwardly with brown. Posterior wing with the lobe orange : the caudal black 

 spot and the spot between them crowned with orange. 



Exp. IjV inch. 



In the Collection of Henley G. Smith, from Minas Geraes. 



436. Thecla Teresina, Hewitson. Plate LXXXIV. $ figs. 707, 708. 



Upperside. Female. — Cerulean-blue tinted with green : the outer margins broadly dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with two tails, and the outer margin near them black : the lobe 

 scarlet, marked above and below with white. 



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Published November 1878. 



