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Beneath rufous tawny; hind wing with a row of three black spots near 



the anal angle, surmounted by white circumflexes. 

 Hub. South Brazil. 



Theope syngenes. 



$ . 1" 6'". AUied to Th. Lytcea, Hiibn. Costa of fore wing strongly 

 arched near the base, incurved in the middle, and very slightly 

 arched again before the apex, the latter distinctly produced; outer 

 margin rounded outwards towards the hind angle. Above brown, a 

 basal patch on fore wing and a spot near the costa towards the apex 

 blue ; hind wing with an irregular broad blue streak from the base to 

 the outer border ; the nervures are brown, and between them is a sub- 

 marginal row of elongated triangular blackish spots. 



Beneath rich tawny yellow, with a square rusty patch at apex of fore 

 wing, and an obscure rusty-brown belt extending from it across the 

 wings to the middle of the abdominal margin. The hind wing has a 

 black spot surmounted by a white one near the anal angle, and a row 

 of rusty-red spots in a line with it to the apex. 



The subapical blue spot of fore wings is sometimes wanting. 



Hab. Para and Santarem, Amazons. 



Theope drepana. 



c? & 2 . 1". A small delicate species with strongly arched costa and 

 falcate apex of fore wings — the falcation existing only in the J , the 

 apex being simply acute in the 5 . The outer margin of the fore 

 and hind wings is strongly bowed outwards, and in the hind wing is 

 obtusely dentated and incurved towards the anal angle. 



Above blue, with a broadish outer border and two very irregular flexuous 

 lines of short lineoles across the disk blackish-brown; outer edge of 

 wing and a submarginal row of specks (more distinct in the 5 ) black- 

 ish. Fringe varied with lighter and darker brown. 



Beneath pallid, minutely irrorated with rusty yellow, and varied with 

 short, transverse, rusty-yellow lineoles, some of which unite beyond 

 the middle to form a flexuous belt across both wings. Near the apex 

 of the fore wing is a whitish patch, and there is a submarginal row of 

 black specks surmounted by rusty -yellow circumflexes in both wings ; 

 a narrow edging of ferruginous to the outer borders. 



Hab. Ega. 



Theope discus. 



(S . 1" 3'". Fore-wing costa and outer border nearly straight, apex 



acute ; outer border of hind wing rounded outwards ; thorax oval, 



robust, antennae more abruptly clubbed than in the typical species. 

 Above black, both wings with a basal spot occupying about one-third of 



the area of the wing glossy dark blue. 

 Beneath dark brown ; basal part of costa of fore wing with a dark-brown 



streak (sometimes tinged with yellow) ; this is followed by a broad 



oblique basal belt of pale lilacine. 



