212 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



444. Thecla Mirma, Hewitson. Plate LXXXV. figs. <j 719, ? 718, 720. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing rufous-brown. Posterior wing cerulean-blue, with 

 the outer margin narrowly dark brown. 



Underside rufescent from the base to an indistinct band of brown which crosses the 

 wings beyond the middle ; rufous-white beyond. Both wings with a submarginal series of 

 triangular brown spots. Anterior wing blue where the wings meet. 



Female pale blue tinted with green : the costal margin and outer half of the 

 wing dark brown. Posterior wing with the costal margin, the apex, and outer margin, which 

 is narrow, dark brown. Underside as in the male, except that there is no blue. 



Exp. d 1 yh inch. 



In the Collection of Herbert Druce. 



445. Thecla Oxida. Plate LXXXV. figs, j 721, 723, ? 722. 

 Thecla Oxida, Hewitson, Equatorial Lepidoptera, p. 68. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the costal and outer 

 margins broadly dark brown. Posterior wing with the apex and outer margin brown. 



Underside grey-brown. Anterior wing crossed near the outer margin by a band of 

 paler colour, bordered on both sides with brown : blue where the wings meet. Posterior wing 

 irrorated throughout with darker brown, and crossed near the base and outer margin by a band 

 of dark brown. 



Female like the male, except that it is smaller, that it has a narrow and 

 distinct pale baud near the outer margin, and is without the blue. 



Exp. d Mr, ¥ M inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Ecuador (Buckley). 



446. Thecla Frivaldskyi. Plate LXXXV. ? figs. 726, 727, 728. 



Thecla Frivaldskyi, Lederer, Verhandl. d. k.-lc. -ool.-bot. Ges. Band v. p. 100, pi. 1. fig. 1. 



Upperside. Female. — Cerulean-blue, with the margins broadly brown. Posterior wing 

 with the fringe white. 



Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a linear spot at the end of the cell : crossed 

 beyond the middle by a broken band of brown bordered outwardly with white. Posterior 

 wing dark brown at the base : crossed at the middle by a broken baud of dark brown, and 

 beyond it by an undulate band of brown. 



Exp. l T 2 u inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from the Amoor (figs. 726, 728) and Japan (Jesso ; 

 fig. 727). 



