LYC.I]NA II 



LYC.ENA PSEUDAEGIOLUS. 1—3. 



Li/cscna Pseudargiolus, Bolsduval, Bois. & Lee. Lep. des Amer. p. 118, text, not plate. Ed- 

 wards, Proc. Am. Ent. Soc. 1866. Argiolus, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Geo. pi. 15. Neglecta, Harris, Ins. 

 Mass. 2nd. edition, page 274, text, not plate. 



Male. Expands 1.4 inch. 



Ui5j)er side delicate pale blue with a pink tinge ; costa of primaries silvery ; 

 hind margins edged by a black line which sometimes is expanded upon the apical 

 part of jDrimaries into a border ; fringes black and white on jjrimaries, white on 

 secondaries. 



XTnder side white, sometimes pure, but oftener with a greyish tinge ; the spots 

 and markings pale black or brown, often nearly or quite wanting ; when distinct, 

 primaries have a discal streak, a transverse row of six spots, mostly elongated, the 

 third, fourth and fifth turned obliquely, the sixth frequently wanting ; a marginal 

 row of dots each preceded by a serrated tooth. 



Secondaries have three dots in a transverse row near the base ; a discal streak ; 

 a row of eight minute spots across the disk, the two next costa much in advance of 

 the others, the next four and the eighth nearly parallel to the margin, the seventh 

 back of the line ; the margin bordered by a row of black points, each preceded by 

 a serrated tooth as on primaries. 



Body above blue, below white ; jialpi black above, white below, tipped with 

 white ; antennae black, ringed with white ; club black tijjped with ferruginous. 



Female. Same size. 



The ajjical half of costal margin and the whole of hind margin of primaries 

 and costal of secondaries broadly, and ba.sal half of primaries narrowly, edged with 

 black ; the rest of primaries violet-blue, (sometimes lilac or green) except a large 

 whitish patch on the disk ; secondaries a duller blue, not metallic ; the hind mar- 

 gin edged by a row of small, rounded, blackish .sjx)ts. Under side purer white 

 than the average of males. Fringes as in the male. 



Larva unknown excejit as given in the plates of Abbot and Smith and in 

 Boisduval and Leconte. The description accompanying the latter is as follows ; 

 "Head black ; body green, pubescent ; back yellowish ; a dorsal red stripe, inter- 

 rupted, cut transversely near the middle by a red arc which is concave posteriorly ; 

 sides with oblique stripes of darker shade than the ground color ; above the legs a 

 stripe of obscure green." 



