BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 89 
Fig. 31. Lycena lucia (nat. size; under surface). 
Form tucia, lu/-ci-a. 
Form NEGLECTA, neg-lec’-ta. 
This remarkable species is very common in Maine, at least 
the forms violacea, marginata and lucia, while the form neg- 
lecta is less common, and pseudargiolus is confined to more 
southern latitudes. These little blue butterflies are found in 
abundance flitting along the roads and borders of the woods, 
from the middle of May to the middle of June. 
_ Expanse of wings, about one inch. 
Upper side of wings, deep azure blue with a delicate termi- 
nal black line. Fringes, black on the apical part of the fore 
wings, but white, barred with black, on the rest of the fore 
wings and all the hind wings. 
The fore wings of the females have a broad blackish outer 
margin, sometimes extending along the costa; and the hind 
wings have a blackish costa, and a row of dark spots along the 
costal margin. 
The under side of the wings is very pale silvery gray, with 
a silky lustre, and there are the following pale brown markings : 
arow of spots along the outer margin, each preceded by a 
crescent; a curved row of elongated spots across the fore 
wing between the end of the cell and the outer border ; 
and several small spots on the base of the hind wing. 
The form Jucia has the terminal spots so enlarged and run 
together as to form a terminal band, and the spots on the 
basal part of the under side of the hind wing, enlarged and 
run together so as to form a more or less complete triangular 
discal patch. 
