900 MR. E. DUKINFIELD JONES ON 



Female. Upper side brown, suffiiserl with lilacine on basal area. 

 Under side as in male, bvit the lilacine reflection is much less 

 pronounced. 



Expanse, male 24 mm., female 24 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Bi-azil. 



ThECLA ESMERALDA, Sp. n. (PI. XCVII. figS. 10, 11.) 



Close to T. janias Cr., but differs in the very much wider 

 black margins of the upper side and in the postmedial line, and 

 in the orange spot in place of the black spot on the under side in 

 janias. 



Hale. Palpi and head vivid metallic green ; legs green ; tarsi 

 inwardly whitish and banded with black ; thorax, abdomen,'and 

 wings rich purplish blue. Fore wings broadly bordered with 

 black on costa and termen, very broad at apex ; a small circular 

 dark grey brand. Hind wings broadly black on costal and apical 

 areas, narrowly from vein 4 to tornus ; a green spot on the black 

 at tornus ; tails black tipped with white. Under side : fore 

 wings vivid metallic green, inner margin grey; cilia brown: 

 hind wings vivid metallic green ; a fine black wavy postmedial 

 line, most distinct at inner margin ; some lunular subterminal 

 spots near tornus, that above vein 2 being bright orange ; some 

 white scales at tornus. 



Female. Thorax green ; wings and abdomen brown, with slight 

 lilacine grey tint on hind wings a,nd basal half of fore wings. 

 Under side as in male, but the postmedial line clearer and the 

 orange spot above vein 2 much larger, thei-e is also some orange 

 at tornus ; cilia inwardly black, outwardly whitish. 



Expanse, male 27 mm., female 25 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla castrena, sp. n. (PI. XCVII. figs. 12, 13.) 



Allied to T.phrosine H. H. Druce. 



Male. Upper side dark blackish brown ; a few lilacine scales 

 at base and along inner margin of fore wings ; a slight lilacine 

 reflection on hind wings ; termen dark and cilia white in both 

 wings. Under side : fore wings pale lilacine blue ; apex and 

 inner margin whitish ; a lilacine reflection over the whole ; 

 a medial V-shaped mark on submedian fold ; a slightly wavy 

 red-brown postmedial band from costa to vein 2, followed by 

 white spot above vein 6 ; a fine black terminal line, becoming 

 brown at apex ; cilia white at tornus, shading to brownish at apex. 

 Hind wings white with lilacine reflection ; a bright orange-tawny 

 irregular postmedial band of elongated spots, placed distally below 

 veins 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8, and proximally below 2, 4 and 7 ; a sub- 

 terminal row of minute tawny and black spots between the 

 veins : a fine black terminal line, shading to brown at tornus ; 

 cilia white. 



Female. Upper side the same as the male, except that the cilia 



