208 ^ WM. H. EDAVARDS. 



front and at tip; antennse black aunulated with white; club black, tip 

 fulvous. 



Taken in Nevada by Mr. Henry Edwards. 



Thecla Castalis, n. sp. 

 Size and form of Smllacis. 



Male. — Expands 1.1 inch. Upper side yellow brown; both wings 

 have broad fuscous costal and hind margins; stigma small, oval ; secon- 

 daries have the yellow disk slightly obscured by fuscous; the outer tail 

 very short, the other long, fuscous tipped with white. Under side of 

 primaries green at base and on apical half of hind margin ; rest of 

 wing castaneous; the marginal edge bordered by an interrupted white 

 line; on the disk, an abbreviated white band, commencing on costa, 

 broken into spots by the nervules. 



Secondaries green ; hind margin edged by a continuous white line, 

 on which, near anal angle, rest three blue grey lunules, the middle one 

 surmounted by a black dot, and all three by black lunules preceded 

 by white points; across the disk a complete sinuous row of white spots, 

 edged anteriorly by castaneous ; a spot in cell and another above, both 

 edged posteriorly by castaneous. 



Female. — Expands 1.2 inch. Similar to male, except that the 

 color of .upper side is castaneous instead of yellow ; on under side the 

 green shade is faint, obscured by brown. 



From Mr. G. W. Belfrage. Taken near Waco, Texas. 

 LyctEna Helios, n. sp. 



3Iale. — Expands 1.1 inch. Upper side dull pruinose blue; hind 

 margin of primaries fuscous, of secondaries edged by a black line ; 

 fringes long, soiled white, at apex of primaries partially replaced by 

 fuscous. 



Under side grey brown, bluish at base of secondaries ; both wings 

 have a subniarginal series of small black lunules, and a median row of 

 rounded black spots; those of primaries large, the first on costa nearly 

 or quite obsolete ; those of secondaries minute on a white ground, but 

 usually about half the size of the smaller on primaries and uniform ; 

 on arc of primaries a large oval black spot, of secondaries a faint 

 streak; a point in cell and another on costal margin; all the lunules 

 and spots faintly edged with white. 



Body above blue, abdtmien .beneath soiled white; thorax grey 

 white; palpi same with long black hairs on front; antenuEe annulated 

 black and white; club black, tip fulvous. 



