572 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON NEOTROPICAL [June 18, 



black, and there is a large oval spot at the anal angle of the hind 

 wing. On the under side the anal angle of the hind wing is very 

 heavily marked with bright red, in the centre of which are two 

 blackish spots. 



Expanse, (S 2^jj, 5 3^^^ inches. 



Hab. Kio Minero, Muzo, Colombia, 2500 feet (JlTieeler). 



Types, Mus. Godman. 



The difi'erently shaped silky patch on the fore wing of the male 

 serves to distinguish this insect from its allies. 



Thecla ornatrix, sp. n. (Plate XXXI, fig. 5 J •) 



Male. Allied to the preceding, T. candidus, rather less brilliant 

 and with the silky discal patch arranged much as in that species, 

 but with the addition of a large, elongate, separate patch occu- 

 pying the outer half of the cell. On the under side of the hind 

 wing the black band is divided by a sinuous whitish band from 

 the costa. 



Female. On the upper surface the wings are dull brown, with 

 the discal areas suffused with dull blue, and on the under surface 

 the basal areas only are green. 



Expanse 2^io- inches. 



Hah. Rio Demerai-a, British Guiana. 



Types, Mus, Druce. 



Also allied to T. spoitsa Mosch. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xxvi. p. 298, pi. 3. fig. 2, but has many points of distinction. 



Thecla floralia, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 6.) 



Male. Allied to T. tagyra Hew.*, with the silky patch on the 

 fore wing not extending over the upper half of the cell of 

 the fore wing as in that species, bvit is distinctly bordered by its 

 walls and running along the median nervure halfway to its base. 



Expanse 1y^ inch. 



Hah. Maranham [Belt). 



Type, Mus. Godman. 



Differs only from T. tagyra in the position and extent of the 

 silky patch. Staudinger has figured this insect as T. tagyra in 

 his Exot. Schmett. (1888). 



Thecla dorcas, sp. n. 



Male. Allied to T. damo Druce, and, like that insect, with a 

 linear black margin only, but with the apical and outer marginal 

 areas much darker and richer blue. 



Feviale. Differs from that sex of T. damo in having narrower 

 brown margins to both wings on the upper side. 



Expanse as T. damo. 



Hah. Yina, N.W. Peru, 5500 feet {0. T. Baron). 



Types, Mus. Godman. 



This insect, which by some entomologists would be doubtless 

 considered as a subspecies of T. marsyas Linn., differs from 



* Thecla iagi/ra Hew. 111. D. Lep. p. 73, pi. 28. figs. 20, 21. 



