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



This insect appears to be very closely allied to T. paupera 

 Feld. and the markings of the under side seem to be much the 

 same, but on the upper side the wings are described as dark 

 lustrous blue with the basal area of the fore wing dusted with* 

 greenish blue. 



It is known to me only by Mr. Weeks's description and figures. 



Thecla com^, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. figs. 8 c? , 9 $ .) 

 Male. Allied to T. ion mihi *, from which it diff"ers on the 

 Tjpper side by having somewhat wider dark outer marginal borders, 

 and on the under side in the fore wing being entirely without 

 the large opalescent blue patch on the discs. The hind wing 

 differs from that of T. ion in the third transverse pale blue line 

 (counting from the base) being without the thick blue dusting on 

 its outer border. 



Female. Much the same as male above, but black margins are 

 broader and on the under side the ground-colour is paler and 

 redder. 



Expanse 1/^ inch. 



Hah. Rio Minero, Muzo, Colombia, 2500 feet {Wlieeler). 

 Types S ? , Mus. Godman. 



There is also a male in the Hewitson cabinet (where it is placed 

 with T. cegides Feld.), but without locality. 



Careful examination reveals a lai'ge elongate oval patch of 

 differently placed scales, situated over the outer half of the cell 

 and beyond, on the fore wing of the male of both this species and 

 of T. ion. T. cegides is entirely without this patch. I have figured 

 the type of T. ion on PI. XX'XII. fig. 7. 



Thecla platyptera. 



Pseudolyccena platyptera Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 246, 

 pi. 28. figs. 6, 7 (1865). 



Micandra platyptera Stand. Exot. Schmett. p. 288, pi. 97. 



Recorded by Felder from Venezuela and Bogota. The type 



from Yenezuela is now in Mr. Godman's collection and was 



formerly in the Kaden Collection. As figured by Staudinger in 



his Exot. Schmett. (from Peru), it is smaller, and the lines on the 



hind wing below are somewhat difierent and no dusting of white 



scales is shown. Schatz has made it the type of his genus 



Micandra. A close examination of the tarsus of the fore leg 



shows that the fusion of the joints is very complete and that there 



is an entire absence of claws, whilst the lower surface supports a 



double row of large spines set close together. The female is 



unknown. M. (?) sapho Stand, id. p. 289, pi. 97, stated on the 



plate to be a male and in the letterpress to be a female, is probably 



not closely allied, if indeed it belongs to the same group of the 



Lycfenidae. I have never seen a specimen. It was received from 



the San Juan River, Colombia. 



* Thecla ion H. H. Druce, Erit. Mo. Mag. 1890, p. 151. 



