898 MR. E. DUKIJfFIELD JONES O'^ 



forming a large maroon spot without irroration ; cilia reddish 

 brown, tipped with white between the veins. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Jlab, Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla sohausa, sp. n. (PI. XCYII. fig. 5.) 



Male. Upper side : fore wings black ; cell and submedian area 

 to near tornus metallic purplish blue ; extreme edge of costa 

 tawny ; a small dark grey brand beyond cell ; cilia grey ; hind 

 wings metallic purplish blue ; costa and apex black ; termen 

 narrowly black ; toi^nus tawny red ; cilia grey. Under side : 

 fore wings brown ; a purplish reflection on medial area below 

 costa ; a postmedial wavy dark red line from costa to vein 2 ; 

 a terminal band of dark red irrorations wide at apex and taperino- 

 down to vein 2 ; termen tawny red : bind wings purplish brown ; 

 an inner and a medial line of red irrorations ; outer half of wing 

 somewhat greyish, very thickly irrorated with red ; a diffused red 

 subterminal band ; termen tawny red. Frons tawny red ; palpi 

 white mixed with brown ; pectus white. 



Female. Yery similar to the male ; the blue of the wings is 

 duller ; cilia almost white ; termen of hind wings more bi-oadly 

 black. 



Expanse, male 17 mm., female 17 mm. 



Hab. Castro, Parana ; Sao Paulo, S.E. Brazil. 



Thecla japola, sp. n. (PI. XOVII. fig. 6.) 



Allied to T. gaina Hew. 



Female. Upper side dull steel-blue ; costa, apex, and terminal 

 area of fore wings broadly greyish black ; a dark diffused spot 

 beyond cell ; basal half of extreme costa tawny ; cilia outwardly 

 brown. Hind wings : costal and terminal areas greyish black, 

 lighter than fore wings ; an indistinct subterminal row of dark 

 lunular spots, conspicuous above veins 1 and 2 ; a red spot on 

 lobe ; tails black, tipped with white ; termen black, preceded by 

 whitish line ; cilia black at base, white at centre, brown at tips. 

 Under side brownish grey ; fore wings : an inwardly diffused 

 reddish-brown postmedial band, outwardly white, straight from 

 costa to vein 2 ; terminal area pale grey with two diffused brown 

 bands, the inner broad, the outer narrow ; termen dark brown ; 

 cilia light brown ; hind wings : an inwardly reddish-brown, out- 

 wardly white medial band straight from costa to vein 2, angled 

 on veins 1 and 2 forming a very acute W ; terminal area whitish 

 grey with an inner brown band, broad and diffused at costa, 

 narrow and distinct at tornus, bent strongly towards base on 

 inner margin, followed at tornus by orange-red to a black spot on 

 lobe, some white at base of lobe ; an orange-red lunular spot with 

 black point above vein 2 ; termen dark bi"own ; cilia lighter with 

 pale band. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parfina, Brazil. 



