232 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



inconspicuous ones ; no colored lunules, nor any of the usual angle 

 spots on hind wing. Speciosa comes from the mountains of Kern 

 County, California. 



399. Lycaena Marina. 



Plate XXX ; Figures 399, b, c. 



Fig. 399, Male, Southern California, August 20, 1892; 

 Author. 



b, Female, Southern California, August, i8go; 



Author. 



c, Female, underside. Southern California, Nov. 9, 



1902 ; Author. 



Marina is not one of the "Spring Blues," for it does not appear 

 until summer, and then it flies till frost, being the only one of 

 all the "blues" to fly so late in the season. Marina is fond of feed- 

 ing on the flowers of the cultivated alfalfa, and the female lays its 

 eggs on the flower buds of alfalfa, and on other leguminous plants ; 

 the figure ii is of a female which was ovipositing on the buds of 

 lathyrus, wild-pea. The egg is pale green, and hatches in from 

 sixteen to eighteen days. The male is especially splendid in change- 

 able colors of brown and blue, in solid eiTects, but these colors 

 soon fade after the insect is killed. 



400. Lycaena Sissona, n. s. Not figured elsewhere. 



Plate XXX ; Figure 400, Female, Sisson, Cal., July, 1892 ; 

 Author. 



Eixpanse, .95 inch ; color, black -brown, without blue scales at 

 base; no spots except a very obsolete lunule near anal angle of 

 hind wings. Under side gray, with a tint of brown ; six discal 

 spots in two sections, six more indefinite marginal ; hind wing, two 

 basal, two costal and two discal round black spots ; four less dis- 

 tinct oblong spots ; a fulvous lunule near anal angle. 



This elegant little new species was captured by the Author at 

 Sisson ; it is unique ; the male is unknown. 



401. Lycaena Astragala, n. s. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XXX; Figure 401, Male, San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 



2, 1889; Author. 

 Expanse, .85 inch ; violet-blue ; a black spot near anal angle. 

 Under side grayish or dove-color ; on fore wing is a cell-bar, a 

 broken discal series of oblong spots, and a double row of dusky 



