ETJM^US.— THEOEEMA. 7 



<J alis nigris, anticis cellula et inter venas caeruleo atomatis ; posticis maculis septem submarginalibus viridi- 

 aureis : subtus fusco-nigricantibus, posticis maculis viridi-aureis in seriebus tribus submarginalibus positis, 

 maculis extimis venis nigris bisectis ; ciliis albis ; macula ad medium marginis intend et abdomine infra 

 rubidis ; fronte utrinque albido, macula inter antennas aliisque ad palporum basin coloris ejusdem. 



$ mari similis, sed colore caeruleo magis restricto. 



Hab. Mexico (Salle), Jalapa, Cordova (H'dge), mountains of Oaxaca (Fenochio), 

 Valladolid in Yucatan ( Gaumer) ; Beitish Honduras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaux), Corosal 

 (Roe) ; Guatemala, Choctum, Polochic valley, Rio Chisoy (F. D. G. & 0. S.), Panima, 

 Cahabon (Champion) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten), Irazu (Bogers) ; Panama, Volcan de 

 Chiriqui (Champion), Lion Hill (M'Leannan). — South America, from Colombia to 

 Eastern Peru and Upper Amazons. 



We notice great diversity in the size of the specimens before us, some of our 

 Guatemalan examples being very diminutive. Our largest are from Costa Rica and 

 Panama, where we notice a further difference, the blue or blue-green colour on the 

 upper surface of the wings of the male being more generally distributed, and the apex 

 of the primaries of the females is sprinkled with white scales. In the Amazons valley 

 the female has no green on the upper surface of the wings. 



F. minyas is a common species in the lowlands of Guatemala ; but we have no record 

 of it from the forest-country bordering the Pacific. 



Guatemalan specimens are figured, the male from Purula, and the female from the 

 valley of the Polochic river. 



2. Eumaeus debora. 



Eummus debora, Hiibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. iii. t. — . \ 

 Eumenia children®, Gray, in Griff. An. Kingd. xv. p. 677, t. 112 2 . 



c? alis nigris, anticis stria cellulari aliisque ad costam viridi-cyaneis, maculis ad marginem externum viridi- 

 aureis, ciliis albis : subfcus nigris undique viridi-aureo maculatis, alis ambabus macula cellulari eyanea. 

 5 mari similis. 



Hab. Mexico 1 2 (Salle), Jalapa (H'dge), Cordova (Bumeli), mountains of Oaxaca 

 (Fenochio) ; Guatemala, Polochic valley (F. B. G. & 0. S.). 



This is almost exclusively a Mexican species, its presence in Guatemala being only 

 known to us from a single specimen taken in the valley of the Polochic. The general 

 distribution of the spots on the under surface of the wings and the absence of red on 

 the inner margin of the secondaries and on the abdomen beneath render this species 

 easily recognized from F. minyas. The eyes, too, appear to be more densely hairy. 



THEOREMA. 

 Theorema, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 69. 



The differences separating this genus from Fumceus are small, and should it be 



