LYC^NA. 329 



oblong;, black spot with white pupil and pale yellow iris ; this is 

 preceded by an abbreviated, pale yellow, transverse ray. 



Secondaries light reddish-brown, grayish along the hind margin ; 

 abdominal margin and base dark gray ; near the hind margin and 

 parallel to it is a series of six black dots, sometimes obsolete, 

 usually with white pupil and broad yellow iris; near the base two 

 irregular pale brown spots, and midway between the base and the 

 hind margin a sinuous, interrupted ray of same color, extending 

 nearly across the wing. 



Female. Like the male. Expands 1.4 to 1.6 inch. 



Lake Winnipeg ; Kansas ; California, 



Edwards. 



Fam. YIII. LYC^NIDAE, p. 81. 



LYCaSNA Ocus. {Thcchi Fab.) p. 11. 



26. L. anna Edwards. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 18(51. 



Male. Upper side violet-blue with a pink tinge, brighter at the 

 base and on costal margin of primaries ; hind margin of both 

 wings narrowly edged with black, which in the primaries extends 

 slightly along the nervures and the costal margin ; fringe white. 



Under side grayish-white with a tinge of blue at the base ; pri- 

 maries with a discal streak, followed by a transverse series of six 

 small black spots, the one next the inner angle double, and the 

 fifth largest; both wings bordered by rusty spots surmounted by 

 black crescents, the four or five nearest the anal angle powdered 

 posteriorly with silver atoms ; secondaries have three small spots 

 near the base, an obsolete discal spot, and a transverse series of 

 eight small spots in a double unequal curve. 



Female. Upper side light brown, with an obsolete discal spot 



oti primaries ; hind margin of both wings bordered by a series of 



fulvous crescents, which in the secondaries partly inclose spots of 



dark brown. Under side fawn-colored, marked as in the male. 



Expands 1.3 inch. 



California, 



Edwards. 



27. L. acudderii Edwards. Pr. Acad, Nat, Sci, Pliilad, 1861. 



Male. In size, form and color, resembles cegon of Europe. 

 Upper side dark violet blue ; hind margin of both wings and cos- 



