THECLOPSIS; LAMPROSPILUS. By Ur. M. Draudt. 8U 



Th. titus F. {= mojDsus Hbn.) (145 1) for which the subgenus Strymon Hbn. could be used is iitua. 

 above plainly grey-brown, in the 5 occasionally with traces of red anal spots of the hindwing. Beneath likewise 

 dark brown with a broad red marginal band of the hindwing and smaller, separated spots on the forewings. 

 The larva lives on cherries and plums. In North America widely distributed from Maine to Georgia. 



125. Dumenilii-Group. (Polyniphes Kaye.) 



Th. dumenilii Godt. (= argiva Hew.) (145 1) is above white, the apex and costal margin broadly sepia- dumenilli. 

 coloured, in the q ^vith a black scent-spot in the cell-end. The 9 is dusted grey-brownish towards the base, 

 on the hindwing with a fine black marginal line and small black spots before it. Beneath white with reddish- 

 brown transverse lines, a small black, white-ringed costal eye-spot on the hindwing and high .submarginal lunae 

 which are pupilled in brownish, between the median veins in black. The (J is beneath sometimes without any 

 marking. — • In f. obsctira Stgr. the $9 ^"^^ above monotonously dark brown-grey, whereas the darker rj is bluish obscura. 

 on the light inner-marginal area of the forewing. Beneath grey-brown with very distinct markings, particularly 

 the distal-marginal eye-spots almost black. Venezuela, Colombia. 



Th. tadita Heiv. (145 1) has a more pointed shape of wings and the white parts above are dull sky-blue; iadUa. 

 beneath brown-grey, otherwise marked like the preceding. Brazil. 



Th. datitia Jones (145 1) is very near to the preceding, but it has two tails, and a narrow black border datiiia. 

 of the hindwings above. Beneath the hindwing exhibits a marginal row of black-pupilled, brown lunae. Parana. 



Th. euptychia spec. nov. (145 1) has the shape of tadita, but it is all brown with a black scent-spot, euptycMa. 

 on the hindwing analwards a white border-line and between the median veins a small black spot bordered proxi- 

 mally with a light colour. Beneath the disc of the forewing is rusty yellow, distally brown-grey, the hindwing 

 brown-grey, with the same marking as in the preceding, the costal-marginal eye-spot very large, jet-black, 

 white-ringed, also the spot between the median veins and one above it jet-black, upwards with a golden yellow 

 ring. Described according to a (^ from the Museu Paulista from South Brazil. 



5. Genus: Theclopsis G. d- S. 



Differs from the preceding genus by the quinquepartite and unmerged tarsus with claws. The two 

 subcostal veins rise widely separated the 2nd somewhat before the cell-end; the cell itself is uncommonly long 

 with a large scent-spot. 



Th. eryx Cr. (= lydus Hbn., ingae Sepp, lebena Heiv.) (145 g) is above metallic ultramarine blue eryx. 

 with a black-brown apical half, and a large black discal spot. Beneath lustrous grey-green with brown, distally 

 white postdiscal rows of spots, arranged like in the vesulus-growp, and with indistinct, small, brown submarginal 

 spots; anal spots red, between them whitish dusting; at the proximal margin of the forewing there is a large 

 black velvety spot partly covered by the costal margin of the hindwing. The $ is- above dark brown with a dull 

 green-blue disc of the hindwing; beneath more grey-brown with more distinct and brighter markings. Southern 

 specimens have above a more extensive blue and beneath broader red spots. Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, 

 and Bolivia. 



Th. curtira Schs. (145 g) differs little from the preceding. On the upper surface the apex and distal cuHira. 

 margin, particularly of the hindwing, are broader black, the scent-spot somewhat smaller, more red-brown. 

 Beneath the ground-colour is of a purer grey, only with a slight green lustre, the small submarginal spots form 

 more distinct triangles, proximally bordered with white, the anal spots more orange. Described from Venezuela. 



Th. demea Hew. (145 g) is easily separated by the absence of the scent-spot and by the black distal demea. 

 margin being only very narrow; beneath darker, more blackish, with the same markings, but without the black 

 inner-marginal spot of the forewing. Nicaragua, Colombia. 



Th. caeus G. ds S. (145 g) greatly resembles demea, but it has a small crescentiform, brown scent- caeus. 

 spot, and beneath the inner-marginal area of the forewing exhibits an intense green lustre; the latter may, 

 according to Deuce, also be absent in specimens from Colombia and Venezuela; described from Panama. 



6. Genus: liamprospilus Hbn. 



Closely allied to the genus Thecla and separated only by few exterior marks, the head and thorax being 

 comparatively very .stout, the one species exhibiting small hyaline spots, the other species whitish, thmly scaled, 

 band-like spots on both the wings. The generic separation is scarcely justified. 



