

LYC.ENA I. 



LYC.ENA REGIA, 1-4. 



Lycana Rrc/in, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. de Beig. XII., p. 46, 18G8. 

 Ibid. Lep. (le I.a Cal. p. 46, 1869. 



Male. — Expands 1.1 inch. 



Upper siile In-illiant silvery blue ; the hind margins edged by a black line ; 

 primaries have a narrow black marginal border, rather broad at apex, macular in 

 the discoidal and two upper median interspaces; an e.xtra discal row of either 

 four or five rounded black spots, three being in a bent transverse line half-way 

 Ijctween the end of the cell and the hind margin, the others forming an oblique 

 line with the lowest of the three, and placed upon the median interspaces ; at 

 the end of the cell a transverse black streak ; near the margin, a little aljove 

 inner angle, two small patches of orange, varying in size and distinctness in indi- 

 viduals. Secondaries have two small black spots at the end of the cell, and some- 

 times there are faint traces of a macular marginal band ; fringes long, alternatLdy 

 and eijually white and fusccnis on primaries, and on secondaries white, witli a 

 few fuscous hairs at the tip of each nervule. 



Under side of primaries brownish-gray, towards apex gray-white ; of seconda- 

 ries gray, either brown or white over the basal area, brown on the disk and gray 

 next hind margin ; the spots of upper side of primaries repeated, and, with the 

 addition of a sixth spot on the sub-median interspaces, they form a row quite 

 across the wing ; a black streak at the end and a small spot in the middle of the 

 cell ; near the hind margin a transverse black line interrupted by the two orange 

 spots, which re-appear and are somewhat enlarged and are confluent. Secondaries 

 have an irregular series of eight black spots across the disk, the two on t\w dis- 

 coidal interspaces being at some distance back of the line ; at the end of the cell 

 a streak and three spots near base. 



Body above blue, beneath brownish-gray ; legs whitish ; paljti white with 

 black hairs at tip; antennae annulated with white and fuscous; club black, tipped 

 with white. 



Female. — Same size. 



Upper side rather less silvery than in the male ; prmiaries have a broad and 



