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Fig. 95. Lycaena on the banks of Sinyalearain Lake, Mission Mountains, 



Mountains. 



Genus THECLA. Fig. 96. 

 Key to Species. 



Fig. 96. Venation of Thecla. 



Lower surface of wings witli a narrow white-edged bar at the end of 

 the discal cell acadica 



Lower surface of wings crossed just outside of the middle by a row of 

 small, dark, blue-edged spots, which form an almost continuous line 



calanus 



The spots of the extra mesial row of the lower surface of the wings 

 wide and discontinuous liparops 



Lines of spots on the lawer surface narrowly defined externally by 

 white saepium 



THE HEDGE-ROW HAIR-STREAK, Thecla saepium Boisduval, Fig. 94. 



Butterfly — Exanse, 1.20 inches, 30 mm. 



Upper side quite uniformly reddish brown, paler on the under 

 side; a narrow sul)marginal and an irregular median transverse band. 



