1907.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY hYCJE^IBJE. 627 



The male usually lias a red spot between the tails of hind wing 

 above. Di\ Butler has identified this species as T. echion Linn. 

 On examiniiag the type of T. ziba I can find nothing to distin- 

 guish it from T. hascdides. 



Hewitson records T. ziba from Guatemala, but Messrs. God- 

 man and Salvin do not mention it. 



Thecla veterator, sp. n. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 25.) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing dull black ; basal half of inner 

 mai'g'in pale violaceous blue, extending upwards to the median 

 nervure. A large dull brand occupying the outer half of the cell, 

 and but slightly darker than the rest of the wing. Hind wing : 

 pale violaceous blue with the costal margin and apex broadly 

 dull black ; anal fold pale grey. A black marginal spot between 

 lower median nervules, and a pale yellow spot in the lobe. Cilia of 

 anal half white with an anteciliary dark line, of apical half blackish. 

 Under side much like that of T. yojoa Reakt.*, but with the 

 white shades less prominent, and without the conspicuous white 

 mark closing the cell of the fore wing and the white shades 

 between the ultramedian band and the base in the hind wing. 



Expanse l-^V inch. 



Hah. Paraguay. 



Type, Mus. Brit. (Crowley Bequest). 



Although I have compared this species with T. yojoa, it is pos- 

 sibly not very nearly allied, as the appearance of the brand, which 

 in f. yojoa is more like a patch of darker scales, is quite different. 

 We also possess a worn specimen from the same locality in which 

 the brand has become much more prominent. 



Thecla bubastus. 



Papilio bubasUis Cr. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 332. figs. G, H. 



Thecla salona Hew. Descr. Lycfenidse, p. 31 (1868) ; 111. Diur. 

 Lep., Lye. p. 159, pi. 63. figs. 429, 430 (1874). 



Hab. Guiana, Venezuela, Amazons, Brazil, Paraguay, St. Vin- 

 cent, Dominica, Grenada. 



This is the tailless form of T. eurytulus. 



I have no doubt, despite the fact that Cramer states his insect 

 is from the Cape of Good Hope, that his figure represents a 

 female of this common S. American Thecla. T. salona Hew. S 

 is described and figured without a tail, but of the four specimens 

 in his collection now j^laced under his name, two are females 

 without tails (1 Venezuela, 1 Brazil), whilst the two males are 

 tailed. 



I have before me about 150 specimens of the two forms, from 

 some localities a long series, but in no single instance can I find 

 any evidence of the two forms inhabiting the same locality. 



Dr. Butler records bubastus Cr. from E. Central Africa 

 (P. Z. S. 1893, p. 660), but I can find no specimens so labelled 

 now in the British Museum. It is noteworthy that those 



* Thecla yojoa Reakt. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 339. 



