6o LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



This curious species has been found in Venezuela, Colombia^ 

 and Peru. 



The following genus diverges still more from llieda^ and at 

 one time it was proposed to separate it as a distinct Family. 



GENUS EUMrEUS. 



Eumceus^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 67 (1816) ; West- 

 wood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 469 (1852) ; Scha'z & 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 266 (1892). 



Eiimenia, Lateille, Enc. Melh. ix. p. 826 (1823). 



These are rather large Butterflies, generally expanding two 

 inches or more. They are more robustly formed than in 

 Thecla^ with broad rounded wings, not tailed or dentated. The 

 pattern is quite dissimilar from that of Thecla^ being black, or 

 blue-black, with blue or green markings, consisting of a broad 

 band on the fore-wings, and at least one row of large sub-marginal 

 spots on the hind-wings ; beneath, the wings are ornamented 

 with at least three sub-marginal rows of spots on the hind- 

 wings ; and sometimes the whole surface of all the wings is 

 spotted. The species inhabit Central America and the West 

 Indies. 



The young larva is cylindrical and tuberculate; the full- 

 grown larva is much flattened, but longer than usual in larvce of 

 this Family ; the pupa is stout, arched, and rounded. 



The type is 



EUM^US MINYAS. 



Riisticus adolescens minyas, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. 



pL 97 (1805?) 

 Eiimcnia toxea, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 826 (1823); Lucas, 



Lep. Exot. p. 143, pi. 79, fig. 2 (1835). 

 This species is blue-black above, more or less broadly greenish- 

 blue at the base (the hind-margins being always black^, and 



