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oblong, black spot with white pupil and pale yellow iris ; this is 

 preceded by an abbreviated, pale yellow, transverse ray. 



Secondaries light reddish-brown, grayish along the hind margin ; 

 abdominal margin and base dark gray ; near the hind margin and 

 parallel to it is a series of six black dots, sometimes obsolete, 

 usually with white pupil and broad yellow iris; near the base two 

 irregular pale brown spots, and midway between the base and the 

 hind margin a sinuous, interrupted ray of same color, extending 

 nearly across the wing. 



Female. Like the male. Expands 1.4 to 1.6 inch. 



Lake Winnipeg ; Kansas ; California. 



EDWARDS. 



FAM. VIII. LYC^ENIDAE, p. 81. 



LYOaiNA OCHS. (Thecla Fab.) p. 11. 



26. L. anna Edwards. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861. 



Male. Upper side violet-blue with a pink tinge, brighter at the 

 base and on costal margin of primaries ; hind margin of both 

 wings narrowly edged with black, which in the primaries extends 

 slightly along the nervures and the costal margin ; fringe white. 



Under side grayish-white with a tinge of blue at the base ; pri- 

 maries with a discal streak, followed by a transverse series of six 

 small black spots, the one next the inner angle double, and the 

 fifth largest ; both wings bordered by rusty spots surmounted by 

 black crescents, the four or five nearest the anal angle powdered 

 posteriorly with silver atoms ; secondaries have three small spots 

 near the base, an obsolete discal spot, and a transverse series of 

 eight small spots in a double unequal curve. 



Female. Upper side light brown, with an obsolete discal spot 

 on primaries ; hind margin of both wings bordered by a series of 

 fulvous crescents, which in the secondaries partly inclose spots of 

 dark brown. Under side fawn-colored, marked as in the male. 

 Expands 1.3 inch. 



California. 



EDWARDS. 

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27. L.^Jeudderii Edwards. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861. 



Male. In size, form and color, resembles cegon of Europe. 

 Upper side dark violet blue ; hind margin of both wings and cos- 



