1 6 Lloyd's natural historV. 



hind-margin entire, nearly straight, only slightly curved ; hind 

 v^'ings generally rather long, sometimes dentated, or with 

 several tails, or with the anal angle produced. Prevailing 

 colours brown, with blue, tawny, or pale markings. Fore- 

 wings with the sub-costal nervure three, four, or five-branched 

 (within the limits of the genus Euselasia itself) ; cells closed , 

 hind-wings with no basal nervure and with the upper radial 

 nervule rising from the upper disco-cellular. On the fore- 

 wings the upper disco-cellular nervule is absent, except in 

 Perophthaluia^ Westwood. 



Range. — The few genera of this restricted group are confined 

 to South and Central America. With the exception of the 

 typical genus Euselasia^ the species are not numerous, though 

 some of the other genera are interesting. 



GENUS EUSELASIA. 



Euselasia^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 24 (1816); Schatz 



& Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 234 (1892). 

 Etirygona^ Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. pi. 21, fig. 3 (1836); 

 Westw. Gen. Diurn. I.epid. p. 437 (1851). 



An extensive genus of small Butterflies, usually measuring 

 from an inch to an inch and a half across the wings. The 

 fore-wings are short and broad, and the hind-wings frequently 

 show a tendency to assume a somewhat oblong form ; but in a 

 few species the hind-wings are considerably drawn out almost 

 to a point at the anal angle, though they are never actually 

 tailed. In other species the hind-wings are slightly dentated. 



We have already indicated the general coloration of the 

 species in our remarks on the Family. Several are striped and 

 occasionally imperfectly ocellated on the under surface in such 

 a manner as to give them a strong superficial resemblance, in 

 some cases, to Satyrincc of the genus Euptychia^ and, in other 



