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948 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Chrysalis. PI. 13, fig. i (lucia). Male, upper surface. 



PI. 84, fig. 36,43, 44. Side views. 7 (lucia). Side view, under surface. 



Imago. 34 : 33, 34. Male abdominal appendages. 



PI. 6, fig. 1 (neglecta). Male, both surfaces. 39:16. Neuration. 



3 (violacea). Male, both surfaces. 46:30. Androconiuin. 



4 (neglecta). Female, upper surface. 55:5. Side view with head and appen- 



5 (violacea). Female, upper surface. dages enlarged, and details of the structure 

 8 (lucia). Male, both surfaces. of the legs. 



12 (lucia). Female, both surfaces. 61 : 12. Front view of head, denuded. 



NOMIADES HUBNER. 



Nomiades n(il)n., Syst. yerz. bek. schmett., Agrodiaetus Scudd.,Proc. Amer.acad.arts. sc, 



67 (1S16). x: 106 (1875). 



Glaucopsyche Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. butt., 3.'! (Not Agrodi.ietus Hiibn. 1S25.) 



(1872.) Type.—Paj). semiargus Bott. 



. . . those little bright-eyed things 

 That float about the air on azure wings. 



Keats.— C'o/irfo)-c. 



Imago (55 : 6). Head small, covered densely with scales which form a tuft behind 

 the antennae, and tufted, besides, with a shaggy mass of long, erect delicate hairs 

 above and on the upper half of the front. Front nearly flat, above almost depressed, 

 with two distant, slight, longitudinal grooves, below considerably tumid, considerably 

 surpassing the front of the eyes, scarcely half so high again as broad, as bro;ul as the 

 eyes on a front view, the sides parallel, the upper border squarely docked and excised 

 slightly at the angles, the lower rather broadly rounded, a little protuberant in the 

 middle. Vertex very slightly protuberant in the middle, which portion is separated 

 by a slender groove from the gradually rising elevations behind the antennae; sep- 

 arated from the occiput by a distinct, deep, transverse channel, the walls of which 

 slope toward each other at a very little more than a right angle, the posterior the 

 more abrupt. Eyes moderately large and full, very delicately, inconspicuously and 

 sparsely pilose with very short hairs, scarcely visible above. Antennae Inserted in 

 the middle of the summit, separated by a space fully equal to the diameter of the 

 antennal socket ; considerably longer than the abdomen, consisting of about thirty- 

 one joints, of which the last twelve form a club which seems to correspond In every 

 respect with that of Cyaniris. Palpi slender, compressed, scarcely more than half 

 as long again as the eye, the terminal joint scarcely one-third the length of the 

 penultimate; the joints provided beneath with a heavy compressed fringe of very 

 long, straight hairs, directed more and more forwards toward the tip, the few on the 

 apical joint nearl}' recumbent. 



Fatagia very slender, scarcely arched or tumid, barely two and a half times longer 

 than broad, tapering rather rapidly and regularly at first, the apical two-fifths pro- 

 duced as a long, equal, slender, straight, blimtly pointed lobe. 



Fore wings (39 : 19) fully two-thirds as long again as broad, the costal margin a 

 little convex at the extreme base, beyond very slightly and regularly bowed, the outer 

 angle but little rounded ofl"; outer margin very slightly convex above, on the lower 

 third receding with a little stronger curve, the general direction of the margin about 

 5.5° to 60° with the costal margin ; inner border straight, scarcely concave in the mid- 

 dle, the outer single somewhat rounded ott'. Costal nervure terminating jnst above the 

 tip of the cell; subcostal nervure with three branches; first arising somewhat be- 

 yond the middle of the upper border of the cell ; second about one-fourth the distance 

 from this to the apex of the cell, the third as far before the apex of the cell as the 

 basal separation of the first and second branches, its forking considerably beyond its 



