156 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



402. LYCAENA DAEDALUS Behy. 

 jNIetallic Blur. 

 Size, large; sexes, slightly different. No tails. Purplish blue 

 above, with a metallic luster. Upper margin of fore wings next base, 

 silvery blue, and along the inner margin of hind pair, where the surface 

 is mostly covered with long hairs. Outer margin of fore wings, black 

 edged ; on hind pair there is a black line, inside which is a black band. 

 On middle of outer margin is a pair of black spots and sometimes there 

 is one on inner angle. There is a bar at end of cell on fore wing ; white 

 beneath, bluish at base of hind wings. Both pair are edged by a pale 

 brown line, and crossed by two lines of black spots. Female differs in 

 being rusty above, central surface obscured with dusky, brownish be- 

 neath. Expands 1.50. Found in Southern California. 



403. LYCAENA SAEPIOLUS Bd. 



Greenish Blue. 

 Size, small. No tails ; sexes not greatly dissimilar. Greenish blue 

 above, with a line at end of central cell, black-bordered and white-fringed. 

 Beneath, gray, spotted as in L. daedalus. Female differs in being dark 

 brown above. Expands 1.12. Found in California, Nevada, Colorado, 

 Montana, and British America. 



404. LYCAENA ICAROIDES Bd. 



California Blue. 



Large size. No tails; sexes not greatly dissimilar. Yiolet blue 

 above, narrowly brown-margined outwardly; white-fringed. Nearly 

 white beneath; a line of six spots on fore wings, and a double line in hind 

 pair, outer, paler ; a spot at end of each central cell; on hind wings all 

 spots are white-ringed. Expands 1.50. Found in the mountains of 

 California. 



505a. Lycaena icaroides mayicopa Reak, is similar to type, 

 but differs in being browner above, and darker below, with spottings 

 larger, and the size smaller. Expands 1.25 lo l.o5. Found in California. 



405. LYCAENA AMICA Edw. 

 Arctic Blue. 



Size, small. No tails; silvery blue above, brown-bordered and 

 white-fringed ; line at end of central cell on fore wings. Glossy grayish 

 white beneath. There is a line of minute spots on both wings, six on 

 fore, and five on hind pair. Spot at end of cell repeated on fore wing, 

 and two spots on upper margin of hind pair, one in middle and one at 



