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Show 1896.] BUTTEEFLIES FB0M THE WEST INDIES. 517 and " open land near Barronallie, St. Vincent, 500 feet, Jan. 12." " St. George's, Grenada." Three males and a female of this beautiful little species. The colour of the space between the eyes is dark in some examples and rufous in others, so that this must be considered a variable character. In the tint of the blue of the upper surface of the wings they agree with Central-American specimens rather than with the lighter brighter Amazonian types. 15. THECLA SIM-ETHIS (Drury). Thecla simcethis, Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhop. ii. p. 81. Balthazar, Grenada. Several female specimens agreeing with our mainland series. Drury's type came from the island of St. Christopher. 16. THECLA BUFO-FUSCA, Hew. TJiecla rufo-fusca, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 196, pl. 78. ff. 627, 628; Godm. & Salv. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhop. ii. p. 91. " Open land near Barronallie, St. Vincent, 500 feet, Jan. 12." Several specimens agreeing with the series from Guatemala and Pernambuco referred to in our wrork. 17. THECLA EUBYTULUS (Hiibn.). Thecla eurytulus, Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhop. ii. p. 96. " Open land near Barronallie, St. Vincent, 500 feet, Jan. 13, and Wallibon Valley, edge of forest, 500 feet, Jan. 10. " Mount Gay, Granville, Balthazar, St. George's, Grenada." Many specimens agreeing with our series of this common widely spread species. 18. LYCENA HANNO (Stoll). Lyccena hanno, Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhop. ii. p. 106. St. Vincent; Mustique and Union Is., Grenadines ; Balthazar, Grenada. Several specimens of this common widely ranging species. PAPILIONIDJE. PlEEINjE. 19. TEEIAS LYDIA, Feld. Terias lydia, Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhop. ii. p. 170. "Botanical Gardens, Kingstown, St.Vincent, 500feet, Jan. 20. Open places." Mount Gay Estate, Balthazar and Granville (Aug. 6), Grenada. Most of the males of Mr. Smith's series agree with the type of T. lydia, Feld., from Venezuela, but one example from St. Vincent differs in having the dark border of the secondaries nearly concentrated at the apical angle, and the submarginal dark line near the inner border of the primaries decidedly narrow ; the underside, |
