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while a row of spots of the same color follows the! outer margin of 
the lower wings. Beneath, the color is black, the upper wings 
plain, while the lower ones are adorned with many brilliant metallic 
Kuiueuia atala. Under side. 
green spots, and one large red spot located midway on the inner 
margin. The head and thorax is black with metallic green streaks, 
and the abdomen is brilliant orange. 
The other species ,Eumenia minyas , occurs in southern Texas, and 
is much like the preceding species except that it is larger. I have 
never received a specimen from this country, those I have having 
been captured in Mexico. 
A very small reddish brown butterfly, adorned with metallic 
blue spots arranged in irregular transverse rows on the wings, is 
Calephelis ccenius. It is a native of Florida and the gulf states, and 
occasionally strays as far north as Virginia. I have never seen the 
insect alive, and know nothing of its life-history or habits. 
