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Show 1878.] CENTRAL-AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 369 32. THEOPE BAREA. d. Exp. 1*15 in. Cell of the primaries nearly to the end, the inner margin (broadly), and the whole of the secondaries dark shining blue with a slight purple tinge; rest of the primaries dark brown with a slightly lighter central patch : beneath uniform rather dark lemon-yellow. 2 . Exp. 1*1 in. Primaries dark brown, a patch of blue covering from the inner margin to half the cell, and passing beyond it, but leaving the outer margin and costa broadly dark ; secondaries the same blue colour, apex and outer margin (narrowly) dark brown; beneath the same as the male, the yellow colour being hardly so bright. Hab. Veragua (Arce) ; Chiriqui (Ribbe). Mus. nostr. ( d), et Dr. O. Staudinger ( $ ). Obs. In the colour of the upper surface this species is like T. aureonitens, but the blue is darker, as well as the apex of the primaries; the colour beneath is much paler yellow. 33. THEOPE CENINA. d. Exp. *95 in. Inner margin of primaries and cell nearly to the end and whole of secondaries dark shining blue slightly tinged with purple; rest of the primaries dark brown ; beneath uniform pale dirty ochraceous yellow. Hab. Veragua, Chiriqui (Ribbe). Mus. nostr. Obs. Allied to T. barea, described above; but the colour of the under surface is more ochraceous in tint, paler and not nearly so pure in tone. 34. THEOPE DECORATA. d. Exp. 1*0 in. Primaries above and margin of the secondaries black; a spot on the inner margin of the primaries near the anal angle, a few scattered scales near the base of the same, and the whole central area of the secondaries blue : beneath dark brown, the apex of the primaries lighter, nearly the basal half of the costa of the primaries and the base of the secondaries yellow ; a curved band of iridescent blue, seen only in a certain incidence of light, occupies the remainder of the costa of the primaries nearly to the apex, it then crosses the wing to about the middle of the outer margin. Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). Mus. nostr. et T. Belt. Obs. Belongs to the T. janus group, from which it differs in many respects. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XXIV. 24 |