142 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



359. THECLA POEAS Dub. 

 Red-banded IIair-streak. 

 Plate IX, 5. 

 Size, small. Tails, two. Pale brown above, glossed with bright 

 blue, e.speciall}^ on hind wings. Pale yellowish brown beneath, with 

 a bright orange vermillion band crossing both wings, whitc-tdged on 

 the outside. This band is indented above the tails with a V shaped patch 

 of pale orange. At inner angle is a dot of black with a minute white 

 spot over it ; betmeen this dot and the base of the inner, longer tail is 

 a bluish field, then a sub-marginal series of pale brown spots growing in- 

 distinct toward the upper margin of the wing, while below them is a 

 marginal line of white and black. Expands 1.00. Habitat, Southern 

 States, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. 



3G0. THECLA COLUMELLA Frb. 

 ]\IoDEST Hair streak. 



Size, small. There is one tail only. Grayish brown above, with 

 two black spots near inner angle of hind wing. Grayish beneath, with 

 lilac reffcctions ; both wings with a bar across end of central cell, outside 

 of which is a curved row of black spots, bordered with white outwardly, 

 and outside of this is a double row of white crescents, faintly defined on 

 fore wings, more distinct on hind pair, and there is a dusky shade be- 

 tween the two rows. At inner angle of hind wing is a black spot, 

 sprinkled with a little orange, then next it a blue patch, and beyond this 

 an orange patch with black outside it. Expands 1.00. Found at Key 

 West, Florida ; Texas, and occasionally New York. 



3G1. THECLA CLYTIE Edw. 

 Clytie Hair-streak. 



Size, small. Tails, two. xVbove light blue, of the same shade as 

 inLycaenapseudargiolus with u})per margin of fore wings, blackish; on 

 outer margin of hind wings is a black line preceded by a white one, and 

 on that near outer angle is an orange line. Near inner angle is a black 

 spot and at the angle is an orange spot. Grayish white beneath, dark- 

 est on outer margin ; both wings are edged with a fine red line, and are 

 crossed a little beyond the middle by a row of elongated red spots, white- 

 edged, and on the inner margin of the hind wings takes tlie form of a 

 W. In central cell of fore wings is a red bar, and on hind wings a red 

 spot on upper margin, near base, and two smaller ones in a line with 

 it in the middle of basal portion. On fore wings is a sub-marginal row 

 of pale crescents. On hind wings, between bases of tails, is a black 



