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female on upper side resembles not Helioides, but $ Sirius. But on 

 under side both sexes in color and markings are near Helioides. 

 Taken on Red Deer Riv^r, B. Am., by Captain Geddes. 



Lycaena Afra. 



Male. — Expands .9 incli. 



Upper side deep blue, the hind margins with fuscous borders, which 

 on primaries are very broad ; on each wing a black discal streak ; fringes 

 cinereous. 



Under side drab ; a common mesial row of minute rounded black 

 spots, each edged white ; on secondaries a spot on costa near base ; the 

 discal streaks repeated, slight, with wliite edging. 



This species was taken by Captain Geddes in the Deer River country. 

 It belongs to the Antiacis group, and is the smallest member of it. Has 

 wide black borders and a discal mark on each wing, on upper side, which 

 is not found in other members of this group. The arrangement of the 

 spots as in Lygdamus. 



EUDAMU.S DrUSIUS. 



Male. — Expands 1.7 inch. 



Upper side glossy dark brown, with eight minute semi-transparent 

 spots on primaries _; four of them sub-apical on costal margin, three in 

 discoidal and median interspaces, one at right angles to the lowest of the 

 three, in submedian interspace towards hind margin, one in cell ; fringes 

 of primaries fuscous, at inner angle cinereous ; of secondaries white, cin- 

 ereous at outer angle. 



Under side dark brown, the hind margins lightly dusted with whitish 

 scales ; the spots on primaries repeated, a little enlarged ; secondaries 

 crossed by two obscure bands, with black outlines. Body above dark 

 brown, beneath dark gray-brown ; legs gray brown ; palpi either dark 

 gray, or with so many brown hairs as to nearly conceal the whitish ones ; 

 antennae black above, beneath tinely annulated with luteous ; club black 

 above, luteous below. 



Female. — Expands 1.7 inch. Similar to the male. 



This species is near Mosclms Edw. Has the spots fewer in number, 

 smaller, and differently disposed ; beneath is darker, and the bands on 

 secondaries are indistinct ; abdomen below without ventral line ; legs and 

 palpi different color, the latter in Moschus yellowish. 



Taken in So. Arizona, by Mr. Morrison in 1883. 



