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spots ; between the band and the posterior margin are three more black 

 spots arranged transversely; and above the base are three spots forming a 

 triangle ; the secondaries have a slight sinus near the anal angle, the fringe 

 of which projects so as to assume the appearance of a shorttail ; a cross 

 the disk runs an angular band formed of faint black spots, above which 

 is a crescent of the same colour ; at the anal angle is an orange coloured 

 angular bar, or abbreviated band ; underneath, these wings have several 

 indistinct black dots, the three external ones of which form an obtuse 

 angle with the four internal ones. 



This species seems the American representative of L. Phkeas, but its 

 colour is much less vivid. 



[Belongs to the genus Chrysophamis Hubn. ; it is probably identical 

 with C. Americana DTJrban.] 



419. Polyommatus lucia Kirby. — Plate ill. , figs. 8, 9.— Expansion 

 of the wings 1 inch. One specimen taken with the preceding. 



[300.] Wings above silvery-blue, terminating, especially at the posterior 

 margin, in a very slender black line ; fringe white barred with black ; prim- 

 aries underneath ash-coloured mottled with white ; in the disk is a black 

 crescent and a curved macular band, consisting of, mostly, oblique black 

 crescents edged with white, especially on their under side ; the wing ter- 

 minates posteriorly in a broadish, brown band, formed chiefly by obsolete 

 eyelets ; the secondaries are brown ; underneath spotted and striped with 

 black and white ; towards the posterior margin the white spots are arranged 

 in a transverse band parallel with it ; and, as in the primaries, the wing 

 terminates in several obsolete eyelets. 



[Figured by Harris (Ins. Mass., figs. 105, 106) under the name of P. 

 pseudargiolus. Not uncommon in Canada and the Northern States.] 



FAMILY HESPERIAD/E. 



420. Hesperia Peckius Kirby. — Plate iv., figs. 2, 3. — Expansion 

 of wings 1 inch and x / 2 a line. Taken with the preceding, and also by 

 Prof. Peck. 



Body brown, paler on the under side. Antennae rufous above, below 

 the joints have a patch of white scales ; knob fusiform, hooked ; wings 

 above tawny-brown, with an articulate angular band, common to both 

 wings, of pale yellow ; primaries striped and streaked with the same colour 



