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DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES OP THECLA. 

 BT HAMILTOX H. DEUCE, F.E.S. 



In a large parcel of Lepidoptera obtained by an Orcbid collector 

 in tbe interior of Colombia, containing amongst others T. coronata, 

 Hew., T. OaJcesii, Butl., T. nohilis, Herr.-Schaff., T. iindulata, Eew., 

 T. circinnata, Hew., T. Balius, Godm. Salv., I find several unnamed 

 forms, seven of which I have ventured to describe as follows. The 

 precise locality was not noted. 



Thecla Ion, s/j. n. 



$ . Allied to T. Mgides, Fekl., from which it differs on the upper-side in that 

 it is without the black margins to both wings. On the under-side the primaries 

 have the three bluish lines as in T. Mgides (the first near the end of the cell being 

 much smaller), and beyond these, close to the margin, a fourth faint similar line. 

 The whole internal area, from about the end of the cell, bordered by the third line, 

 and reaching just beyond the lower median nervule is suffused with brilliant dark 

 purplish-blue. On the secondaries the lines are arranged as in T. Mgides, but just 

 beyond and close to the third is a band of bluish scales, and beyond this a fourth 

 bluish line close to the outer margin, which line in T. Mgides is only at the anal 

 angle. 



Hah. : Interior of Colombia. IV^us. Druce. 



This lovely insect is distinguished at once from its allies by the 

 blue area to the fore-wing beneath. 



Thecla Eeonos, sp. n. 

 (? . Brilliant dark purplish-blue, suffused at the base with emerald-green. The 

 apex and outer margin of primaries rather broadly black. Under-side : pi'imaries 

 brilliant blue, with costal and outer margins black with a few green scales ; secondaries 

 black, with a very fine marginal green line, beyond which a submarginal row of 

 green lunules, and beyond this, about the centre of the wing, an irregular green line, 

 leaving the basal half of the wing without any markings. Expanse, H in- 



Sab. : Interior of Colombia. Mus. Druce. 



This beautiful little species, although scarcely more than half its 

 size, appears to be somewhat allied to T. platyptera, Eeld., but it is 

 without the band on the fore-wing, and the hind-wings do not show 

 the peculiar indentation near the anal angle in that species. 



Thecla Stiktos, sp. n. 



(J . Allied to T. Ophelia, Hew., but the apical border much narrower. On the 

 under-side are three large red spots, viz., one at the base of the primaries, one at the 

 base, and another on the costal margin just before the middle of the secondaries. 

 The markings near the anal angle as in T. Ophelia. 



Hah. : Interior of Colombia. Mus. Druce. 



