LYCAENINAE: CYANI1U8 PSEUDARGIOLUS. 931 



fore winiis niul beyond it is an extra-nicsial irregular series of small blackish or dark 

 fuscous spots or dots, arraiisred finite as in violacea ; those in the lower subcostal and 

 upper median interspaces are frequently absent and often many of the others, the 

 uppermost beinit the most persistent: they are ^enei'ally reduced to faint dots or 

 slender streaks, but when present they untlerijo the same variety of form that holds in 

 violacea; the outer margin of the wing is faintly edged with a thread of pale fus- 

 cous, followed by a submarginal series of small round spots, largest and darkest, 

 generally blackish, on the lower half of the wing, smaller, paler, sometimes obsolete, 

 but generally pale fuscous on the upper half; this is followed by a series of pale 

 fuscous, strongly bent linear lunules darker nearer the inner border, often obsolete 

 toward the costal border, distant at the farthest from the outer border by from one 

 and a half to two interspaces. Fringe silvery white, occasionally, especially on the 

 lower half of the wing, flecked slightly with pale fuscous. 



Beneath (in the form violacea) uniform pale ash gr.ay, occasionally begrimed 

 slightly with fuscous but generally with a faint, pale bluish tinge. Fore ii-ings with 

 the apex of the cell marked by a rather slender, equ.al, scarcely bent, transverse, fus- 

 cous streak ; middle of the outer two-flfths of the wing with a transverse, considera- 

 bly curving series of six fuscous or blackish fuscous, short, moderately broad bars, 

 sometimes very faintly and narrowly edged with pale; that in the lower subcostal 

 interspace and those in the interspaces below it are arranged iu a slightly curving or 

 nearly straight row, snbparallel to the outer border, while the uppermost, in the next 

 to the lowest subcostal interspace, is removed inwards from the line by about its own 

 length; those in the lowest subcostal and the medio-subniedian interspaces are trans- 

 verse, the latter usn.ally broken; the others more or less diagonal, directed from above 

 downward anil outward ; the outer bonier is edged with a thread of blackish fuscous, 

 sometimes expanding very slightly at the tips of the nervnles, followed by a submargi- 

 nal series of quite small, obscure fuscous spots in the interspaces, followed at an 

 equal distance by an obscure fuscous or dark fuscous, usually bent bar, opening 

 outwards and often obsolete or nearly so in the upper half of the wing ; in the 

 medio-submedian interspace it is never bent. Fringe at base bluish ashy mingled with 

 fuscous, at tip white, interrupted alnniptly and not very broadly with dark fuscous, 

 often extending to the base and sometimes occupying the whole apical half. Hind, 

 wings with a basal series of three rather small, round, blackish spots, faintly 

 edged with pale, iu the costo-subcostal interspace, the middle of the lower half of 

 the cell and the internal interspace, the latter situated next the middle of the basal 

 half of the inner border; the upper two spots are on a line with the lowermost spot 

 of the extra-mesial series to be mentioned, and the lower two on a line with the upper- 

 most spot of the same series; the tip of the cell is marked by a transverse, rather 

 slender, equal, fuscous streak, formed of two scarcely curving halves, each opening 

 outward ; beyond this is a transverse series of eight blackish, blackish fuscous or fus- 

 cous spots, very faintly rimmed with whitish ; all but that in the medio-submedian inter- 

 space, which is transversely curved or bent, opening inwards, are usually roundish 

 or oval, but occasionally linear, especially in the subcosto-median interspace, where it 

 is either longitudinal or slightly diagonal ; the uppermost is slightly larger than the 

 others and sometimes extends linearly outward a little ; the upper two, in the costo- 

 subcostal and upper subcostal interspaces are parallel to the upper two spots of the 

 basal series and removed outward from the tip of the cell by their own width ; the 

 four succeeding ones form a gently curving row opening upwards and a little inwards, 

 that in the lower subcostal interspace varying from one-fourth to one-half the dis- 

 tance from the tip of the cell to the outer border, that in the lower median interspace 

 just below the streak at tip of cell ; the spot of the submedio-internal interspace is 

 nearly in continuation of this curve and at the middle of the outer border, that in the 

 medio-submedian being removed further outward and about one-half the width of an 

 interspace; the outer margin of the wing is edged with a delicate fuscous line, 

 followed by a submarginal series of small, round, dark fuscous spots, followed again, 

 at an equal distance, by slender, obscure, pale fuscous, strongly bent or curving 



