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and after examining the types of the remaining three, I am of 

 tlie same opinion as regards them. T. beUera has the median 

 band on the nnder side narrow and browner, but I can distin- 

 guish no characteristic of sufficient importance to separate it. 



Mr. W, J. Ka,ye writes (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1904, p. 192) that he 

 has four large males taken at Yerdant Vale (in Trinidad) which 

 scarcely have any blue on the fore wing except on the inner 

 margin; one male is the hactra of Hew., etc. My own opinion is 

 that the male never has any trace of blue on the fore Aving and 

 that all those specimens which have blue on the fore wing are 

 females. 



This is the southern form of T. cecrops Fab., and is evidently 

 regarded as the same species by Scudder in his work ' The 

 Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada,' vol. iii. 

 p. 1821 (1889), as he records it from Guatemala and Panama. 



Thecla sangala. 



Thecla sangala Hew. Descr. of Thecla, p. 35 (1868). 



Thecla sangala Hew. 111. Diur. Lep., Lycpenida^, p. 132, pi. 54. 

 figs. 314, 315 (1869). 



Thecla autoclea Hew. ibid. p. 194, pL 77. figs. 616, 617 (1877). 



Thecla autoclea Godm. & Salv. B. C.-A., Rhop. ii. p. 76, pi. 57. 

 figs. 9, 10 (1887). 



I can find no points of difference between the tj^pe of T. autoclea, 

 which is without doubt a female, and that of the previously 

 described T. sangala except in size. Venezuelan specimens of 

 both sexes appear to be rather larger than those from Centrul 

 America. Hewitson's figures are rather different, but the figure 

 of the upper side of T. aiitoclea (617) is too highly coloured, 



Thecla lorina. 



Thecla lorina Hew. 111. Diur. Lep. p. 181, pi. 71. figs. 539, 540. 



The type and another in poor condition are now in Mr. 

 Godman's collection and are the only sj)ecimens I have seen. 

 They were formerly in the Kaden Collection, and may have come 

 from Venezuela, but their origin is not recorded. Hewitson 

 states that he describes the male, but I am of opinion that both 

 are females. 



Thecla perisus, sp. n. 



Male. Upper side uniform dull brown ; a small orange spot at 

 anal angle of hind wing. Under side : ground-colour pale brown 

 with linear white-edged bands and shades as in T. denarhos 

 Butler & Druce*, but with the ultramedian band on the fore 

 wing parallel with the outer margin, not placed obliquely as in 

 that species. 



Expanse 14- inch. 



* Tmohis doiarhis Butl. & Druce, Cist. Eiit. i. p. 109. 



