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HYPOTHECLA; THAMOLA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
cinesi. 
cinesioides. 
astyla. 
mindanaen- 
sis. 
tegea. 
honos. 
miniata. 
petrella. 
sparanisa. 
marciana. 
naluna. 
H. cinesia Hew. (146 B g). above with a magnificent violettish-blue gloss; easily recognizable beneath, 
where the light anal area is separated by a thick black undulate stripe with a blue gloss. The $ above is dark 
brown with a white anal band not parted by the veins, under surface as in the <$. Sarawak and from the Kina 
Balu in Borneo. 
H. cinesioides Nic. (159 c) may be the Sumatran representative of cinesia, with a still more beautifully 
marked hindwing beneath; the black undulate stripe before the anal area is finer, longer, and is continued 
in a dark nebulous line on the forewing, bordering on the marginal area there. Above cinesioides and cinesia 
are cpiite similarly coloured, but cinesia. entirely lacks the scent-spot, at least in the insect figured by Hewitson. 
From North-Eastern Sumatra. 
62. Genus: Hypotliecla Smpr. 
This genus is closely allied to Hypolycaena, also having a three-branched subcostal of the forewing, 
but a shorter discal cell; the middle and posterior discocellular are equally long, whereas the latter is mostly 
much shorter in Hypolycaena ; in the hindwing the discal cell is not straight, but obliquely cut off. Nor have 
the <$($ of the Hypothecla any visible scent-organ. — The name is to denote the resemblance of Hypothecla in 
the structure and neuration to the genus Tliecla, as the author of the genus stated; and, in fact, the Hypothecla, 
by the shape of the wings (convex, rounded wings), by the colouring and even the marking of the under surface, 
make the impression of species of Tliecla with very long thin tails of the hindwings. 
H. astyla Fldr. (158 e). Above the ^ is of a peculiar transparent light lilac blue, so that the dark 
transverse bands beneath seem to shine through. In typical astyla even the spaces between these shadows 
appear quite light, almost whitish, both in the forewing and hindwing. Philippines. — According to Semper, 
the specimens from the various parts of the Archipelago differ rather much, and there are only from the Coll. 
Semper lighter specimens from Luzon and darker ones from Mindanao; the latter with a greenish reflection 
above Fruhstoreer denominates mindanaensis. — From Bazilan another form is described with a dark 
violettish-blue upper surface and a broader marginal band, the light spaces between being covered more by 
denser irroration: this is tegea Fruhst. (158 e). 
H. honos Nic. (158 e) is very easily discernible from the preceding species by the under surface, 
where the transverse bands of both wings are dislocated or interrupted, so that it looks as if the spots forming 
them had got in disorder. The figured $ particularly differs from astyla in the latter exhibiting in the 
disc of the forewing whitish brightenings which are extensive in northern specimens, whereas, honos only has 
lighter yellowish-brown embedments. From Celebes. 
63. Genus: Tliuinola Mr. 
This genus of which likewise only 2 species have been described, which may even belong together, is 
also very closely allied to the Hypolycaena. The most remarkable mark is the glaring red upper surface of the 
d'cL by which the species are at once discernible. In contrast with the preceding species the discal cell of the 
forewing is long, at least more than half the length of the wing, above all considerably broader than in Hypo¬ 
thecla. The being outwardly very similar to Deudorix jarbas are at once separable by the shape of the 
wings and small anal tails of the hindwings. One of the two species inhabits the northern range, the other 
the southern range. 
Th. miniata Mr. (158-d <$, 156 g $). This species which was formerly composed of the correct, 
quite red and of the $ of the following ( marciana ) inhabits Western Indo-China, Tenasserim, and the Mergui Is. 
The correct $ is above on the forewing dark brown with 2 convergent miniate longitudinal stripes (= miniata -$) 
and cpiite dark brown hindwings, or also with predominantly miniate forewings and discally. red hindwings 
(= petrella Fruhst.) (156 g). To the latter form belongs a exhibiting a somewhat broader dark margin of 
the fore wing (156 g) and a black spot at the lower cell-angle which is absent in specimens from Tavoy. Still 
darker is sparanisa Fruhst. (156 g) which already forms a transition to the next species which may form a species 
with the latter. 
Th. marciana Nic. (158 e) has a bright vermilion $ with an entirely black apical portion of the fore wing, 
a black distal margin and a thick black cell-end; the hindwing is light bluish-grey in the whole anal region, 
otherwise dark brown with a vermilion costal area. The $ of it shows only yet traces of red in the disc of 
the forewing in and behind the cell, and the whole anal half of the hindwing is bluish ash-grey. Sumatra, 
Borneo. — natiina Fruhst., from the group of islands of the same name, is smaller, and the $ has instead of 
the small yellow cell-end spot a cloud-like red-brown brightening, so that it forms a transition to miniata 
