NEW BRAZILIAN BUTTERFLIES. 901 



are brown. Under side yellowish grey, the hind wings lighter 

 than fore wings ; bands as in male, but the postmedial is out- 

 wardly shaded with white and there is a subterminal series of red 

 spots from vein 2 to 6 ; termen brown ; cilia brown : on the hind 

 Aving the subterminal spots are much larger than in the male, 

 termen brown, inwai^dly shaded with white, cilia greyish 

 white. 



Expanse, male 25 mm., female 24 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla campa, sp. n. (PI. XCVII. fig. U.) 



Near T. hihlia Hew. 



Male. Upper side dull blackish blue, shading to black on outer 

 half of fore wings ; cilia brown ; hind wings ; termen narrowly 

 black ; fi'inge of abdominal fold white ; cilia black, with white 

 band at tornus, outwardly brown at apex. Under side light 

 green with a light lilacine-blue reflection; cilia of fore wings 

 light brown ; hind wings : an obscure greyish- white discocellular 

 bar ; an obscure sinuous greyish-white postmedial line, more 

 clearly defined from inner margin to vein 3 ; a black spot at 

 tornus with some white scales above and below it ; a minute 

 black point below vein 2 and a small orange-red spot ringed with 

 black below vein 3 ; termen near tornus bluish white. Palpi 

 white with green reflection, third joint black above, white 

 beneath ; frons metallic green : back of head and tegulae dark 

 brown ; eyes surrounded with white ; body blue-black above, 

 creamy white beneath. 



Expanse 22 mm. 



Hah. Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Thecla datitia, sp. n. (PI. XCA^I. fig. 15.) 



Yery near T. taclita Hewitson, but differing from it in the 

 possession of tails, the narrow black margins on upper side of 

 the hind wings, and in the terminal rows of lunular spots and the 

 black spots on the under side of the hind wungs. 



Male. Upper side : fore wings smoky black ; a very dark 

 medial sufi'usion from costa to vein 2 ; outer two-thirds of cell 

 filled Avith raised brown scales ; a submedian patch of lilacine 

 blue from base to near tornus ; termen dark ; cilia greyish ; 

 hind wings lilacine blue, broadly black on costa and apex ; 

 a series of diffused black subterminal spots, confluent below apex ; 

 termen dark ; cilia greyish ; tails dark with white tips. Under 

 side grey with light brown bands. Fore wings : a light brown 

 discocellular bar ; a well-defined light brown postmedial band 

 difi'used on inner side ; a narrower and wavy subterminal band 

 followed by a row of difi'used spots ; termen light brown ; cilia 

 grey at base, brown at tips. Hind wings : base light brown 

 irrorated with grey; a light brown discocellular bar; a dark 

 narrow postmedial band, diffused on inner side and followed by 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1912, No. LX. 60 



