XEW BRAZILIAX BUTTERFLIES. 897 



Thecla fancia, sp. n. (PI. XCVII. fig. 2.) 



Allied to T. punctum H.-S. 



Male. Upper side bright metallic blue with a greenish reflection 

 on basal half of wings ; costa of fore wings narrowly, apex and 

 termen broadly black ; a brown circular brand on upper angle of 

 cell ; hind wings outwardly broadly black ; tails tipped with 

 white. Under side yellowish grey : fore wings, a postmedial 

 band of indistinct brown lunular spots outwardly bordered with 

 white from costa to vein 2 ; hind wings : postmedial band inwardly 

 dark brown, outwardly white, angled on veins 1 and 2, inwardly 

 oblique from 3 to 4, placed more distally from 4 to 6 and above 7 ; 

 a small orange spot at tornus and a larger one between veins 2 

 and 3. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla sicrana, sp. n. (PI. XCYII. fig. 3.) 



Male. Upper side dull metallic blue ; costa and termen of fore 

 wings narrowly black ; submedian hairs on hind wings greyish ; 

 tornus dull orange ; tails and cilia black tipped witli white. 

 Under side bright green ; inner margin of fore wings bluish 

 grey ; hind wings : an indistinct postmedial series of lunular spots 

 inwardly black, outwardly white ; dark red-brown subterminal 

 spots above veins 1, 2, and 3, the one above 2 larger; tornus dark 

 red-brown ; ciha black tipped with white. Palpi white with 

 some lateral tawny scales, 3rd joint black ; frons brown, -with a 

 few metallic green scales ; a white point between antennfe ; 

 abdomen bluish grey above, white beneath. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla bertha, sp. n. (PI. XCYII. fig. 4.) 



Female. Upper side smoky brown, inwardly sufiiised with 

 bluish grey ; fore wings irrorated from median nervure to inner 

 margin with light blue ; cilia smoky brown interrupted by white 

 between the veins ; in the hind wings the irroration covers the 

 cell also ; toi-nus tawny, with a dark spot on lobe ; tails black 

 with white tip ; cilia outwardly whitish. Under side bright 

 green ; basal half of submedian area of fore wings brownish grey, 

 outer half light grey; a rather broad clear white postmedial 

 band with indistinct dark central line from costa to vein 2 ; cilia 

 reddish brown, tipped with white between the veins. Hind 

 wings : a nearly straight white medial line defined by maroon on 

 both sides from vein 8 to vein 1, angled inwards at origin of 

 veins 3 and 4, broken at vein 2, being placed more distally below 

 the vein, angled inwardly on submedian fold ; a large white spot 

 slightly irrorated with maroon above upper angle of cell ; three 

 spots in cell ; one spot above vein 2 and one above vein 1 ; 

 a terminal series of lunular maroon spots irrorated with white, 

 fusing at the veins, the one above vein 2 being produced inwardly, 



