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Th. trebula Hew. (158 h). Forewings above brown-black, hindwings of a brilliant blue with moderately irehvla. 

 broad black costal and distal margins. Beneath marked as vesulus (158 g) on a purely olive-yellow, lustrous 

 ground. From Mexico to Colombia and the Amazon. 



Th. orcilla Hew. (158 h). The cJ is above brown, the $ at the proximal margin of the forewing, and orcilla. 

 on the hindwing of a brilliant azure colour, in the anal direction with a bluish-white subterminal line and small 

 black spots before it. (Hewitson mixed up the sexes!) On the underside the colour is lustrous light reddish- 

 brown, marked as vesulus, but the postdiscal bands are proximally broader orange-red. Ecuador, Colombia, 

 Bolivia. 



Th. gizela Hew. (158 i) is above indigo-black, like pisis (158 h), beneath reddish grey-brown with a yizela. 

 brown cell-end streak and markings, as in orcilla, likewise with postdiscal bands broadly bordered with red. 

 Bolivia. 



Th. panamensis S'p. nov. (158 i) is the most similar to pisii^MZa (158 h), but it is above of a light greenish panumen- 

 st eel-blue, \\ith a strong lustre, black margins of the same extent as in jnsidula; the $ is of a duller grey-blue. *' 



Beneath more purely grey, with a slight lustre, the linear marking stronger, particularly the white bordering 

 more pronounced, the submarginal lunae more distinct, the red spot of the tail very large, so is the light-blue 

 spot beside it. Panama. 



Th. pupilla sp. nov. (158 i) is above black-brown, towards the base with a slight blue-grey tint, on inipiUa. 

 the liindAving with a large red anal spot being bordered at first by black, then by white; beneath brown-gi-ey, 

 the lines like in the preceding, but finer; the submarginal lunae almost extinct, from the upper median vein 

 to the proximal margin distinct as an entirely straight black line being removed far inward and touching the 

 dents of the postdiscal band. The red spot of the tail and the anal spot extremely large, connected by a broad 

 red bridge, the black pupil of the spot of the tail very small, strigiform. Guiana to Colombia and Bolivia. 



Th. gentilla Schs. is above dull gi-ey-blue, not metallic, with a fine black distal margin. Beneath light geniilla. 

 grey-brown, marked like pisidula, but with whitish cell-end streaks; the W is filled up with black towards the 

 border, both the anal spots connected by a red bridge, the spot of the tail very large black, containing only 

 a small red crescent, the anal spot quite black. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Petropolis in South Brazil. 



Th. aprica Mschlr. may probably belong hereto. The black-brown forewings are of a violet-blue aprica. 

 gloss along the proximal margin, the hindwings in the disc; at the anal angle there is a red spot. Beneath dark 

 yellowish-grey, the markings as usually; the postdiscal band of the hindwing proximally black, distally white, 

 without any orange-red; the submarginal band is a whitish dentate line being dark towards the border; between 

 the median veins a large red spot with a black pupil; the grey spot before the anal angle is bordered towards 

 the base by an arcuate red spot, the lower filling of the middle sides of the W being black. Paramaribo. 



105. Teucria-Group. 



Th. teucria Hetu. (158 i). Above dark-brown, at the anal angle of the hindwing a white subterminal ieucria. 

 line and two minute white spots. Beneath grey, towards the border somewhat browner; the postdiscal band 

 composed of white small spots being proximally bordered with brown, like the submarginal bands. At the 

 costal and anal angles of the hindwing broad carmine spots. Amazon. 



Th. milto Godm. & Salv. (158 i) is similar, but above tinted blue, the hindwings dusted with blue, millo. 

 Beneath the postdiscal band is placed much nearer to the border, while on the forewing it is more mdistinct. 

 Panama. 



Th. tegula Hew. (158 i) is more grey-brown than teucria and exhibits a quite uncommonly large, dark icgula. 

 brown scent-spot in the cell. Beneath very much like teucria, recognizable by a small white spot in the middle 

 of the costal margin of the hindwing. Amazon. 



Th. casmilla Hew. (158 i, k) has the same enormous scent-spot as the preceding, being contmued for casmilla. 

 some distance behind the cell, on the forewing with an indigo-blue tint, and the hindwing in the proximal- 

 marginal half strewn with a dull blue, so that the veins, a cell-end streak and small submargmal spots 

 remain black. Beneath light olive-brown, with very much duller markings, the white having almost disappeared: 

 between the two submarginal bands there is some light blue dusting. Brazil (Rio Grande, Sa. Catharina).. 



106. Ledaea-Group. 



Th. ledaea Heiv. (158 1) is above dark-brown, in the proximal half of the forewing and on the hindwing Icdaea. 

 except the costal margin and apex grey-blue; the anal spot being bordered with white and two small spots of 

 the tail black-brown. Beneath yellowish-brown with similarly shaped postdiscal bands as in the vesulus-grou'p, 

 at the anal angle extensively orange-yellow, the anal spot and the spot on the tail black, the space between 

 brown, dusted with white. Amazon. 



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