THEOPE. 481 
Lycenide, contains at least fifty species ranging through Tropical America from Mexico 
southwards, the majority of the species congregating in the valley of the Amazons and 
on the eastern slopes of the Andes. We at present know of fourteen species as inha- 
biting our own country. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries in 7. ewdocia emits two branches before the 
end of the cell and one after it; the first branch anchyloses for a short distance with 
the costal; the lower and middle discocellulars are both atrophied, the latter meets the 
upper radial some way beyond its junction with the subcostal, so that there is a well- 
defined upper discocellular; the lower discocellular meets the median a little beyond 
the second branch; the costal side of the cell is shorter than the median side. The 
secondaries have a well-defined straight basal nervure; the lower and upper disco- 
cellulars are both atrophied, the latter meets the subcostal beyond the first branch, the 
former the median beyond the second branch ; the costal and median sides of the cell 
are nearly equal. 
The front legs of the male have the trochanter inserted about the middle of the coxa, 
the femur <4 coxa, dilated towards its distal end, tibia >4 coxa, tarsus = femur 
+trochanter. The terminal joint of the tarsus of the female=second joint, and has a 
setose pad beneath ; the second, third, and fourth joints terminate with a strong spine. 
The palpi are long and slender; those of the male =} middle joint; those of the 
female are still longer, being a little shorter than the middle joint. 
The secondary sexual organs in the male have bilobed harpagones, the lower obtuse, 
the upper pointed and slightly depressed, and both setose; a long rod proceeds from 
the base of the harpagones in the middle line, and is pointed and slightly upturned 
towards its end; the penis is strong and curved downwards towards its base, and the 
usual strap proceeds from its middle to the base of the harpagones. 
a. Wings uniform beneath, no spots near the anal angle of the secondaries. 
a’. Secondaries orange above. 
1. Theope eudocia. (Tab. XLVI. figg. 10,113,122.) 
Theope eudocia, West. in Doubl. & Hew. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 439, t. 70. f.4'; Bates, Journ. Linn, 
Soc. Zool. ix. p. 453”. 
Alis anticis nigricantibus, plaga subapicali violacea, altera magna cellule dimidium et marginem internum totum 
amplectante posticisque omnino saturate croceis ; subtus omnino saturate citrinis. 
Q mari similis sed colore anticarum nigricante magis restricta et plaga violacea nulla. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—SovTH AMERICA, Venezuela to Bolivia, Amazons 
valley !2, and Guiana. 
This is a peculiar species, being the only one of the genus in which the orange yellow 
colour predominates on the upper surface. Its range is wide, and includes the whole 
of the Amazons valley, and thence northward to the sea; in Central America it is only 
known to us from Nicaragua. | 
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