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



distinction from that species, but on the undei^ side the markings 

 are less clearly defined and the whole surface is more clouded in 

 both sexes. Mr. Godman has male and female T. hehrceus which 

 were formerly in the Kaden Collection, there is a male in the 

 British Museum, and we have a female from Espiritu Santo, 

 Brazil. 



Mr. E. D. Jones has shown me two males captured by himself 

 which are referable to T. cimelium. Gosse's types are in the 

 British Museum. Hewitson's type was in Boisduval's collection. 



Thecla paphlagon. 



Pseudolyccena paphlagon Feld. Reise Nov., Lep. p. 249, pi. 31. 

 figs. 10, 11 (1865). 



Male. Upper side bi-ight shining blue of a greener shade than 

 T. ochusG. & S.* and with the black area of the fore wing reduced 

 to a small patch beyond the brand at the end of the cell. The 

 conspicuous black haii^s along the submedian nervure of the hind 

 wing are also absent. Under side as in female but darker. 



Hab. Oucuta, Venezuela. Mus. Druce. 



As surmised by Messrs. Godman & Salvin in B. C.-A., there is 

 no doubt that Felder described the female as the male. 



It is a rai-e insect, the male described above being the only 

 example of its sex that I have seen. 



Thecla panch^a. 



Thecla jxmchaia Hew. 111. Diur. Lep. p. 126, pi. 51. figs. 274, 

 275. 



Thecla scoteia Hew. 111. Diur. Lep. p. 206, pi. 82. figs. 683, 684. 



Hab. Cucuta, Yenezuela. Mus. Druce. 



Mr. Grose Smith has kindly lent me his type of T. scoteia, which 

 is without doubt the male of the pi-eviously described T. paiichcea. 

 They are identical on the under side. 



T. pion, G. & S. B. C.-A., Lep. Rhop. vol. ii. p. 56, pi. 54. 

 figs. 28-30 (1887), is very close to this species, if indeed it is 

 distinct. It is perhaps rather less greenish in tint and the female 

 is darkei'. 



Thecla ccelebs. 



T. ccelebs Herr.-Schafl'. Corresp.-Blatt. Regensb. xvi. p. 142 

 (1862); Hew. 111. Diur. Lep. p. 156, pi. 62. figs. 416, 417 (1874). 



T.fidena Hew. 1. c. pi. 44. figs. 183, 184 (1867). 



An examination of Hewitson's type of T. fidena, which is a 

 male and was described from an unknown locality, has convinced 

 me that it is the male of Herrich-SchafFer's species, of which we 

 have several examples from Cuba, obtained by Paiish. T. ccelebs 

 is allied to 7\ jyavicAa^a Hew., T. jyion, G. & S., and T. piplea G. k 

 S. aiad like those insects has the tuft of haii-s near the base of the 



* Thedn ochvs G. & S., B. C.-A., Lep. Khop. vol. ii. p. 55, pi. 54. %s. 24-27 (1887). 



