96 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



not produced at apex, but the hind pair have a prominent 

 angle, or tail, near middle of outer border. Fore legs, 

 thickly covered Avitli long hairs. Type, E. lethe, ( Plate 



six, 3.) 



230. EUREMA LETHE Fab. 

 Lethe Buttrfly. 

 Size, medium. Above, yellowish orange, with apex of fore wings 

 dark brown, enclosing four spots of the ground color, the two lower of 

 unequal size, the outer being very small, the upper large, and reaching 

 the upper border of the wing; the two outer are of irregular form, the 

 lower being somewhat larger than the other. The wing is margined 

 with brown, and a brown band crosses the wing diagonally on the lower 

 third. Hind wing, with a short band of brown on the upper angle, and 

 a double sub-marginal band of brown, the enclosed stripe being lighter 

 than the surface color. Beneath, pale buff, with a rufous patch in the 

 middle of outer portion of fore wing, a brown patch near middle of lower 

 border, and an intricate pattern of rufous on the upper half of wing. 

 Hind wing with an intricate pattern of rufous at base, and the outer 

 portion of the wing is overwashed with rufous and crossed with a double 

 band of rufus which encloses a pale stripe. Outside this is an irregu- 

 lar line of spots of rufous, the upper blue-pupiled, the others surrounded 

 with a yellow and a rufous ring. There is a sub-marginal band of gray- 

 ish, beginning at the tail and extending along the inner edge of the wing. 

 Expands 1.72 to 2.00. Habitat,Texas, where it is rare, and southward. 



GENUS XXIX. 

 EUNICA. VIOLACEOUS BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, small. Colors, rather dull. Antennae, about two- 

 thirds as long as the body, with the club enlarging gradu- 

 ally. Front legs but slightly hairy. Fore wings triangu- 

 lar, upper angle not produced. Hind wings oval without 

 any prominent angles. Type, E. monima. Plate six, 4. 



231. EUNICA MONIMA Cram, 

 Violet Butterfly. 

 Size, small. Above, bronzy brown with violet reflections, nnd with 

 indications of five white spots in apex of fore wings. The female is near- 

 ly without the violet reflections, and has the apex of fore wings dark 



