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will often see the rich blue and purple of several of these insects 
among other butterfly habitants of that tropical land. Their scales 
are very easily loosened and their coloring is so dark and rich that a 
slight touch on the wings with the fingers will seriously injure a 
specimen. The native Indian collectors are very careless in their 
manner of handling the insects the}^ capture, and it is sometimes 
enough to make one’s heart ache to see some rare and gorgeous little 
creature, that would delight a collector and pay him for a day of hard 
exertion, ruined by the clumsy finger-marks of its Indian captor, who 
simply looked upon this specimen, with hundreds of others, as a 
means of purchasing a keg of rum. 
Our own native species, Eunica monima , is a rather plain insect, 
being brown above with slightly purple reflections, while beneath it 
is brownish gray tinged with pink, having a few faint yellowish spots 
on the upper wings and faint lines of brown on the lower pair. It is 
occasionally taken in southern Florida. 
Eurema letlie. 
Another straggler from tropical America, which is occasionally 
found north of Mexico in Texas, is Eurema letlie. 
The genus to which it belongs is not a large one, and is mostly 
confined to Central and South America. This insect is marked in a 
bold manner, and, although not displaying the iridescent tints of 
many of the butterflies from the same region, it is rich, in coloring. 
