210 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Underside. Anterior wing with the costal half green, the lower half grey : crossed 

 beyond the middle by two bands of black, the first irregular and bordered outwardly with 

 white, the second shorter and straight, the outer margin black, bordered inwardly with white. 

 Posterior wing with the basal half brilliant green : crossed at the middle by a linear band of 

 white bordered inwardly with black, followed by a broad band of brick-red, partly bordered 

 below with white, and marked by three black spots, also bordered below with white ; the outer 

 margin black, bordered inwardly with white. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



In the Collection of Dr. Staudinger from Chiriqui (Ribbe). 



Nearly allied to the following, T. Sjjonsa of Moschler. 



437. Thecla Sponsa. 



Thecla Sponsa, Moschler, Verhancll. d. h.-h. zool.-bot. Ges. Band xxvi. p. 298, pi. 3. fig. 2. 



438. Thecla Feretria, Hewitson. Plate LXXXIV. figs. 709, 710. 



Upperside cerulean-blue, with the outer margins broadly dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with two tails and two black caudal spots. 



Underside rufous-white. Both wings with a white spot near the base. Anterior wing 

 clouded with purple-brown near the costal margin, marked by a linear white spot at the end 

 of the cell : crossed near the middle by a band of white spots and by a subniarginal pale 

 baud. Posterior wing with the base and a large central spot purple-brown, two white linear 

 spots, and a transverse and very irregular central band of white spots, a submarginal pale 

 brown band : the lobe and a small caudal spot black, with the outer margin below them white. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Staudiuger. 



Very nearly allied to the following species, T. Bistort of Moschler, but without the two 

 eye-like spots on the underside of the posterior wing of that species. 



439. Thecla Biston. 



Thecla Biston, Moschler, Verhandl. d. h.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Band xxvi. p. 302, pi. 3. fig. 5. 



440. Thecla Zava, Hewitson. Plate LXXXIV. d figs. 711, 712. 



Upperside. Male. — Blue with the margins broadly dark brown. Anterior wing with a 

 dark brown oval discal spot. Posterior wing with two tails and a large anal lobe. 



Underside brown, undulated throughout with dark brown. Both wiugs crossed by 



