622 MR. H. II. DRUCE ON NEOTROPICAL [Juiie 18, 



are red. T. picentia Hew. appears to be without marks closing 

 the cells on the under side of both wings. 



Thecla verbenaca, sp. n. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 24.) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing dark cferulean blue, with the 

 costa, apex to end of the cell, and oviter margin black ; a deeper 

 black patch beyond the end of the cell. Hind wing blue as in 

 fore wing, with the costa widely and outer margin narrowly dull 

 black. Lobe bright orange. Submedian nervure and anal fold, 

 which is greyish, thickly clothed with black hairs. Tails black tipped 

 with white. Under side : ground-colour greenish grey, slightly 

 shining. Fore wing with an ultramedian linear dark band, out- 

 wardly sordid white, running almost parallel with the outer margin, 

 and a veiy faint submarginal row of shades invisible at the apex 

 and outer angle. Hind wing with a similar more clearly-defined 

 linear band, commencing on the costa in a single spot, just before 

 the apex, and angled towards the abdominal margin, where it 

 becomes doubled and which it reaches about the middle. Within 

 the angles near the margin are some reddish scales. Without 

 this linear band the anal half of the w^ing is occupied by two 

 large confluent orange-red patches crowning a black lobe, and a 

 small black marginal spot between the lower median nervules ; 

 above these red patches and extending to the apex are two rows 

 of whitish submarginal shades. An anteciliary white line neai- 

 anal angle. Cilia of both wings dark grey. Antennae and legs 

 black and white spotted. 



Expanse li inch. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Type, British Museum, 



Not closely allied to any with which I am acquainted, but 

 perhaps belonging to the group which contains Thecla matliewi 

 Hew. I have not seen the female. 



Thecla cinniana. 



Thecla cinniana Hew. 111. Diur. Lep. p. 189, pi. 75. figs. 593, 

 594 (1877). 



The male differs from the female in the costal half of the hind 

 wing above being dark brown. I was unable to find the type in 

 Mr. Grose Smith's collection, but there is a specimen in the 

 Hewitson Collection at the British Museum which is probably it. 



Thecla plumans, sp. n. 



Male. Closely allied to T. cinniana Hew. Upper side wholly 

 uniform dark brown, with a few pale blue scales on the inner 

 maro-in of the fore wing and over the anal margin of the hind 

 wing. Under side as in T. cinniana. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hah. Chapada Campo, Brazil {H. H. Smith). 



Type, Mus. Godman. 



Taken by Mr. tSmith in December. This is pei-haps a local race 

 of T. cinniana, but seems distinct enough to require a name. 



