THECLA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 795 



Th. atrox Btlr. is above smoky-brown with a purple reflection, beneath grey-brown with a cell-end- airox. 

 streak and very similarly marked to thama (158 a), the W beneath filled up with red, but proximally not 

 bordered by red. Guiana to the Amazon. 



Th. capeta Hew. (158 a) we include here owing to the under surface being marked the same. Above fMpeia- 

 duller blackish-brown, the hindwings exhibit in the proximal-marginal half towards the margin a large, lilac- 

 blue spot, in the anal lobe a small red spot. Beneath exactly as hesperitis (157 i), only of a somewhat more 

 lustrous, oHve-yellowish tinge. Nicaragua, Colombia. 



Th. netesca sp. nov. (158 a) greatly approximates xeneta (157 k), but above on both Avings it Ls dull neiesca. 

 steel-blue, with narrow blackish-brown margins. Beneath slightly lighter blackish-brown, the pcstdiscal line 

 on the hrndwing more irregularly broken, the submarginal lines much nearer to the margin, the small anal 

 spots bordered by deep red-brown. Guiana to South Peru. 



Th. vesper Drc. (158 a) is above deep metallic blue with rather broad black m.argins and behind the vesper. 

 cell of the forewing a black spot being connected with the costal margin; in some specimens the cell itself is 

 also black. Beneath very similarly marked to thama, but the ground-colour is a light ashy grey; on the hindwings 

 the postdiscal line is more angularly broken, not with such pointed angles as there; the anal spots are lighter 

 orange. Peru and Bolivia. 



Th. zurkvitzi Schs. may yet be appended here. Above cj^uite brown with a red anal spot of the hindwing zurkvUzi. 

 and a white marginal line analwards. Beneath lighter brown with a blackish marginal line; the postdiscal line 

 on the forewing is reddish-brown, distally black, then white-bordered, beneath the lower median vein displaced 

 inward, on the hindwings proximally brighter and broader red, running as in hesperitis (157 i); the submarginal 

 lunae darker brownish, on the hindwings bordered by whitish; the anal spots large, red; also above the spot 

 of the tail some red. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Sao Paulo. 



93. Centoripa-Group. 



Th. centoripa Heic. (= hahneli Stgr.) (158 a) looks above almost like xeneta (157 k), but the hind-nings cenioripa. 

 are more extensively blue. Beneath similarly blackish-brown, but very peculiarly marked: the postdiscal line 

 on the hindwing placed quite into the centre, beginning at the costal margin with a large black spot and con- 

 taining the light discal streak in the middle of it; the W at the proximal angle distally bordered by white; the 

 anal spots in the darkened distal margin are black. Colombia, Peru, Amazon. 



94. Cecrops-Group (Calycopis Scudd.). 



Th. cecrops F.'(= poeas Hbn., beon Godt.) (158 b) is the northern representative of a difficultly cecrops. 

 separable group of small species of which a very great number is described that are surely partly coincident 

 as synonyms. The present species is either above quite dark-brown, or on the forewings towards the base and 

 on the hindwings in the inner-marginal half suffused with blue, in the $ more intensely. The hindwings exhibit 

 towards the proximal angle a fine black marginal line being proximally bordered by blue-white, and a small 

 red anal spot. The under surface is light-brown, the costal base of the forewing orange; both wings exhibit 

 fine, double, orange-red discal streaks, on the hindwings more distinct, both with broad, orange-red discal bands 

 on the forewings almost straight as far as the lower median vein, on the hindwings straight as far as the lower 

 radial vein, then broken and forming a W at the proximal angle, distally finely tinged in black, then white. 

 Distally follows the subterminal formed of blackish crescents, between the lower radial and the lower median 

 vein more intensely black, placed nearer to the postdiscal line, distally filled up with 2 orange crescents which 

 exhibit towards the margin high black triangular spots ; then follows anahvards a black spot densely strewn . 

 with blue-white; the anal lobe itself is above bordered first by white, then by orange; a fine black marginal 

 line, proximally tinged in white. Everywhere common in the Southern States, West Virginia, Kentucky and 

 Indiana. — beon Cr. (= isobeon Btlr., bactra Heiv., caulonia Hew., vibulena Hew., bellera Hew., jeneirica Fldr.) hcon. 

 (158 b) is distributed in the whole of Central and South America to South East Brazil and mostly common. 

 This form is above deeper blackish-brown, the hindwings in the (J more extensively and more metallic blue 

 in a rather variable extent; in the $ the blue is mostly duller and lighter and is to be found also on the basal 

 inner-marginal half of the forewing. The ground-colour beneath is generally darker brown, the postdiscal lines 

 very much narrower red and much deeper, almost scarlet-red, the black filling up of the two red spots of the 

 tail is much more reduced and does not reach as far as the marginal line, the space between them and the 

 anal spot is not so extensive and not so blue, but more strewn with greyish-white. 



Th. amplia Hew. (158 b) is above very similar, the blue is particularly in the $ someAvhat more whitish, ampUa. 

 not so ultramarine-blue; beneath darker brown, on the forewings the proximal orange bordering of the post- 

 discal line is absent, on the hindwings the orange marginal lunae are proximally bright ochi'eous yellow or 



