210 WM. n. EDWARDS. 



Body above concoli)red ; bcm^ath wliite; legs white; palpi white 

 tipped with grey; autennai annulated white and black; club black, 

 tip pale ferruginous. 



From Nevada, vicinity of Virginia City. Taken by 31 v. Henry 

 Edwards. 



LYCiENA GlAUCON, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 0.95 inch. Upper side pruinose blue, color of 

 Comi/nfda; primaries have a blackish border to hind margin of efjual 

 wi<lth throughout and even edged within ; secondaries have ;v rather 

 wider border, lunate within and less distinctly defined, the two luna- 

 tions before anal angle surmounted with fulvous; fringes short, white, 

 cut with black at ends of nervules on primaries. Under side grey 

 brown, tinted with blue at base of secondaries; primaries have a mar- 

 ginal series of brown spots or imperfect lunules, preceded by a sub- 

 marginal series of larger, distinct, blackish spots, the two next inner 

 angle suffused with fulvous ; a median row of large blackish spots, the 

 uppermost one much advanced oncosta; a subrenif)rm spot on arc 

 and a smaller spot in cell, both blackish. 



Secondaries have a distinct ^marginal row of round brown spots, pre- 

 ceded by a second similar row, but which are j^artly lost in a bright 

 orange stripe that occupies the space between the two rows from anal 

 an<'le nearly across the wing; the median row similar to that of pri- 

 maries ; a bent bar on arc ; two rounded blackish spots a little poster- 

 ior to this bar and between it and costa; a third spot on eosta nearer 

 base and a fourth below cell. 



Body above black, covered with blue hairs, beneath grey ; palpi 

 white with long black hairs at tip; antennae annulated black and 

 white ; club black, tipped with white. 



Female. — Same size. Upper side brown ; hind margin of second- 

 aries bordered by rounded indistinct spots of darker brown, which for 

 two thirds the distance from anal angle are partly enclosed and sur- 

 mounted by a fulvous bars. Under side as on male. 



Allied to Bdttoidcs, Behr. From 2^ , 1 $ , taken by Mr. Henry 

 Edwards, in Nevada. 



Lyctena Gyas, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands .95 inch. Upper side pale violet blue, immaculate 

 except a fuscDUS point near anal angle. Under side pale brown with a 

 wash of whitish; primaries have a faint discal bar, and a straight row 



