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Fig. 32. Lycena comyntas (nat. size; under surface on the left). 
51. Lyc@na comyntas, Godt. 
Ly-ce’-na co-nyn'-tas. 
-Expanse of wings, one inch. 
The hind wing is regularly rounded, with one fine, thread- 
like tail. The males are dark violet blue on the upper side, 
with blackish outer borders, while the females are blackish 
brown, sometimes dusted with bluish near the base, and the 
fringes are whitish. Along the outer margin of the hind 
wings are several black spots, and one or two orange 
crescents. 
Under side of the wings, light gray with brownish spots 
encircled with white, and arranged as follows: a dash across 
the end of each cell, a row of spots between this and the 
outer margin, quite regular on the fore wing, but irregular 
on the hind wing; a double row of paler spots along the outer 
margins of both wings; the black spots and orange colored 
crescents of the upper side repeated below; the black spots 
encircled with metallic scales; a spot near the middle of the 
cell, and one near the basal third of the costa of the hind 
wing. 
Body, black above, whitish beneath. 
The larva of this species feeds on red clover and other spe- 
cies of the Leguminose. 
The eges are of a delicate green color, round, flattened, 
depressed at the top, and covered with a frost work of inter- 
laced points. In three or four days, the eggs hatch and 
the young larve are .05 of an inch long, cylindrical, 
of a yellowish color except two rows of white points along 
