THECLA. 101 



Under side green, with two black bent lines, and bordered with 



white to the extremities of the primaries ; with three similar lines, 



but flexuous, on the surface of the secondaries. The anal angle 



of secondaries has a suite of three small ocelli with a white iris. 



"Virginia. — Expands scarcely half an inch. 



Godart. 



20. T. acis Drury. T. mars Fabr. T. ixion Fabr. Figured in Drury, I, 



pi. 1, fig. 2. 



Upper side. Primaries entirely dark brown, without any marks 

 or spots. Secondaries the same, with four tails, the inner ones 

 much longer than the others ; close above which latter are two red 

 spots, edged at the bottom with black, and two more placed at 

 the anal angle. The ciliae white. 



Under side. All the wings of a dark lead color. A very narrow 

 black and white line crosses the primaries, parallel to the external 

 edges ; another indented irregular line crosses the secondaries, 

 beginning near the middle of the anterior edge, and meeting just 

 below the extremity of the body. Four long reddish spots are 

 very visible on this side, below which are four black ones. 



Jamaica. — Drury gives New York as its habitat. Doubtful. 



21. T. strigosa Earr. MS. 



11 The streaked Tliecla has a long and a short tail on each of the 

 hind wings, and is of a dark brown color, without spots on the 

 upper side ; the wings beneath are ornamented with wavy trans- 

 verse white streaks, and near the hind margin of the posterior 

 wings is a row of deep orange-colored crescents, with a large blue 

 spot near the hindmost angle. It measures lj 1 ^ inches across the 

 wings. In the markings of the under side of the wings it nearly 

 resembles T. liparops." 



Massachusetts. 



Harris MS. 



22. T. aubumiana Harris MS. 



The outermost of the tails is very short, and often nothing re- 

 mains of it but a little tooth on the edge of the wing. It varies 

 considerably in color ; the females are generally deep brown above, 

 but sometimes the wings are rust-colored or tawny in the middle, 

 as they always are in the males ; the oval opaque spot which 



