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447. Thecla Mishma, Hewitson. Plate LXXXV. <j figs. 724, 725. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant morpho-blue, with the outer margins broadly dark brown. 



Underside rufous-brown. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of brown 

 bordered outwardly with paler colour, commencing on the costal margin of the anterior 

 wing by a separate spot. Anterior wing blue where the wings meet. 



Exp. 1 inch. 



In the Collection of Dr. Staudinger, from Columbia (Sierra Nevada). 



448. Thecla Arria. Plate LXXXV. <? figs. 729, 730. 



Thecla Arria, Hewitson, Equatorial Lepidoptcra, p. 68. 



Upperside. Anterior wing brown, blue from the median nervure to the inner margin. 

 Posterior wing blue, with the costal and outer margins brown : slightly pointed at the anal 

 angle. 



Underside. Anterior wing rufous-brown, blue at the base where the wings meet : 

 crossed beyond the middle by a twice-curved band of brown, bordered outwardly with dull 

 white : a submarginal brown band. Posterior wing brown from the base to the middle, 

 crossed near the middle by a band of brown, and marked at the end of the cell by a black 

 line : the outer half of the wing grey-white irrorated with brown, and crossed by a sub- 

 marginal series of linear brown spots. 



Exp. l^Linch. 



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



Form of T. lrus. 



[It was evidently Mr. Hewitson's intention to add two more Plates of Thecla (Plates 

 LXXXVI. and LXXXVIL), as is shown by the first plate of Poritia being numbered 

 LXXXVIII. ; but he left no materials either in MS. or in drawings towards their execution. 

 — W. F. K.] 



Genus PORITIA. 



Poritia, Moore. 



Feldei-'s genus Pseudodipsas contains insects of very different construction ; and I propose 

 to follow Mr. Moore in dividing it into three genera — Pseudodipsas, Poritia, and Lyc<e- 

 nesthes. 



Pseudodipsas Eone has three branches from the subcostal nervure. I do not in these 



