LYCilNA II. 



Under side pure wliite with a bluish tint ; ^jrimaries have a fuscous discal streak 

 and a transverse row of six fuscous, abbreviated streaks set obliquely ; secondaries 

 have a discal streak, three points near base and eight points or streaks crossing the 

 disk in a tortuous line ; both wings bordered by confluent fuscous spots, which form 

 a crenated band, each spot enclosing a darker point. 



Female. Same size. 



Ui^per sides of both wings of a deej^er and more metallic blue ; j^rimaries have 

 a broad fuscous hind margin, and this color extends more narrowly along costal 

 margin to base, where it is sprinkled with blue scales ; a faint discal streak ; hind 

 margin of secondaries bordered by a row of small fuscous spots. Under side as in 

 the male. 



Larva, according to Mr. Saunders "found feeding on Dogwood, 12th July. 

 Fed it afterwards on Willow, which it readily ate. Length .45, somewhat onisci- 

 form, distinctly annulated. Head small, dark shining brown with a black streak 

 down the middle, mandibles brown with a transverse streak of paler color above. 

 Body dull greenish white with a faint tinge of yellow ; the second segment of a 

 deeper shade of green, with a blackish line across its posterior edge ; a brown dor- 

 sal line ; a dull green band across anterior portion of fifth segment and another in 

 same j^osition on eleventh ; on each side of each segment, from fifth to eleventh, a 

 spot of same hue extending obliquely backward. Entire upper surface covered 

 with minute dots from which arise short, fine hairs." 



Found in the Northern States from New England to Wisconsin ; in Canada 

 and in British America as far north as Lake Winnipeg ; occasional in W. Virginia. 



This species replaces Pseudargiolus in the North and has usually been regard- 

 ed as the species so named. It diflers however in size, in shade of color and in the 

 delicacy of markings on under surface. 



The existence of two distinct species confounded under the name Pseudargio- 

 lus was suspected by Mr. Edward Doubleday as long ago as 1841, as ajjpears from 

 remarks by him in the "Entomologist" of that year, page 209. 



Ncghcta is by no means a common species. So far as my own ex2:)erience goes 

 in the Northern States I have seldom seen more than two or three individuals ujj- 

 on a June day. At certain spots in the Catskills, esjiecially near the "Fawns Leap" 

 in the Clove south of the Mountain House, a few may always be seen at that season 

 flying about the Avet sj^ots by the road side. But in June 1866, in the vicinity of 

 Coalburgh, W. Va., Ncglecta appeared in large numbers, while I scarcely saw a doz- 

 en Pseudargiolus, usually so abundant. Li the following years to the present 

 (1869), Neglecta has again been rare in this district. 



