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dered with very brilliant golden atoms ; a black point between 

 the base and the discoidal spot of the primaries. The female is 

 sometimes all blue, sometimes only at the base, and sometimes 

 nearly black. In every case the band of the upper side of the 

 secondaries is always more distinct than in the male. 

 California. 



BOIRD. 



14. P. xercea Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 296. 



Upper side of the male, blue ; that of the female brown, with 

 some blue atoms at the base, without any other spot. 



Under side of both sexes dark gray, with a central spot and a 

 sinuous interrupted band, formed of large white points; no mar- 

 ginal lunules. 



California. 



15. P. saepiolus Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 297. 



Upper side blue, with a black border, wide on the primaries, 

 more narrow on the secondaries, the primaries having besides a 

 black costal point. Female entirely black, or powdered with blue 

 at the base. 



Under side ash-gray in the male, dark gray in the female, with 

 a great number of black points as in the analogous species ; that 

 of the secondaries with three or four fulvous marginal lunules, 

 more distinct in the female. 



Mountains of California. 



16. P. icarioides Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 297. 



Upper side violet blue, with a small black border and white 

 fringe. That of the secondaries with the border interrupted, 

 forming a series of marginal black points. 



Under side clear and white ; that of the primaries with a dis- 

 coidal lunule and a transverse sinuous line formed of black ocel- 

 late spots ; that of the secondaries with a central lunule and two 

 sinuous rows of white points scarcely pupilled with black. Female 

 brown, with the under side rather dark brownish-gray, marked 

 with a central lunule and two rows of distinct ocellate black points. 



Mountains of California, 



