LYCAENINAK: TURCLA MI'AROPS. 



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iiig of tlio portion embracod iti the nioiliau an'U is usually continuous with the outer 

 eilaing of wliite scales of the discal spot; so that were it not for the darker fields of 

 the band itself and its outer limits of black, we could not readily make the markinjis 

 of this species accord with the sreneric type; the different parts of the band take the 

 jTcneral course of the discal spot, but above the subcostal ucrvure it is curved rapidly 

 inward to the costal border, or, more frequently, is broken into small fragments by 

 each succeeding nervule and the inner edginj; of a portion comes nearly or quite in 

 contact with tlie outer edsriufr of the discal spot again ; at the lower extremity of the 

 whole baud, it usually narrows rapidly, sometimes abruptly, by the more or less 

 gradual outward direction of the inner edging; outside of this l)and there is an inter- 

 ruptedly continuous series of transverse, curving, outward opening, black lines parallel 

 to the outer border and placed, in the upper third of the wing, midway between it and 

 the outer border of tlie extra-mesial band, bordered interiorly with wliite and followed 

 outwardly by a tint like that of the extra-mesi.al band, but often with a faint, pale 

 stripe down the middle ; outer border with a distinct black line, edged interiorly with 

 a narrower white line; costal border edged at base with dirty white; fringe of the 

 tint of the wing. Hind icings with a discal spot and an extra-mesial band similar to 

 those of the fore wings, but the discal spot is longer and the ijand more distinctly 

 broken above, the uppermost fragment being in broken continuity (or nearly so) witli 

 the discal spot, while the inner edging of the succeeding patch is, normally, in direct 

 continuity with the outer edging of the patch above and of the discal spot, and its 

 outer edge in continuity with the interior border of the succeeding portion of the 

 band; below the submedian nervure, the band takes an entirely different shape, its 

 two portions forming a broad V whose limbs, sometimes parted, lie at an angle of 

 about 45*-' with each other and are broader at their extremities than at their junction; 

 the outer edge of the first portion is proximately in broken continuity with the inner 

 edging of the discal spot and both its extremities are often edged, partially at least, 

 with wliite — a tendency which is shared by all the fragments of the band on the hind 

 wings and to some extent on the front pair. Beyond this band is a series of curving 

 black and white streaks like those of the fore wings, but to a greater or less degree 

 forming lunules. followed by distinct, bright orange lunules in nearly or quite all the 

 interspaces, but especially in the median and anal areas, edged very narrowly in the 

 upper median interspace and above it, with bluish white, occasionally with black fol- 

 lowed by white; they are seated, in the lower median and lowermost interspaces, upon 

 a roundish black spot (the junction of whi<h is marked, next the inner border, by a 

 small white spot) .and in the intervening interspace upon a large blackish spot, flecked 

 profusely with caerulean, but leaving between the two a black edging; outer border 

 margined with Ijlack and white as in the fore wings; fringe and tails as above. 



.\bdomen above, of the color of the upper surface of the wings, at the sides more 

 gray, beneath whitish, mingled next the sides with gray. The appendages of the 

 male (34 : 17-19) having the lateral alations and ai-ms of the upper organ as in T. cala- 

 nus but the latter upcurved at the tip ; clasps beyond the gibbous base conical, short, 

 straight and blunt-tipped. 



Described from 8$ ,99 ■ Longer tails varying from 1.75 to 3 ram. in length. 



Aberrations. T. l. pruina. Miss Guild captured,. July 20, a male of thisspecies with 

 the colors of the under surface partly obsolete and partly suffused. The extra-mesial 

 band is scarcely darker than the other dark parts of the under surface and its white 

 edging has spread over various parts of the wing, giving them a whitish hoary appear- 



