LYCAENINAE: IIEOUES HYl'ol'HI.AKAS. 9!)9 



thirds of the other joints blackish brown iibove, the sides white ; beneatli all but the 

 basal joint brownish yellow, edged on either side with l)lack ; spines and s)nir.s black ; 

 claws very dark reddish. 



Above. /('ir tFimjs brilliant orange red with a metallic coppery lustre, near the l)asc, 

 especially on the lower half, a very little darker; llic median veins in the male dark 

 brown ; the costal border, as far as the subcostal nervurc (excepting the extreme 

 base), the outer border for the widtli of at least an interspace — more broadly above, — 

 and the apical half of the inner border dark gray brown with a slight greenish tinge ; 

 in the female the costal border is oidy marked in tliis way very narrowly on its apical 

 half, the basal half being eitlier greenish gray, or like the prevailing color of the wing, 

 but with a decided greenish hue. The wing is ornamented l)y eight straight, quad- 

 rate, transverse, very dark mulberry l)rown or black bars, each crossing an interspace ; 

 two are in the cell and the otiiers form an irregular, transverse series in tlie middle of 

 the outer half of the wing; one is near tlie middle of the cell, just over tlic llrst di- 

 varication of the median, but does not reach either margin of the cell; another bor- 

 ders, on both sides, the extremity of tlie cell; three others, the tlrst of the transverse 

 series, are found respectively in the two lower subcostal and the siibcosto-median in- 

 terspaces (and occasionally a fourth, small and obscure, in the next interspace above) 

 forming a curving row, the interior edge of the lower one being midway between the 

 extremity of the cell and the outer margin ; and the upper spot removed inward from 

 it by its own width; one, in the upper median interspace, is removed inward by twice 

 Its width from the one above it; and that in the lower median interspace by half its 

 own width outward ; the lowermost, in the medio-sulnnedian interspace, is removed 

 inward from the one above it by twice its widtli ami its exterior edge is at twice an 

 interspace's widtli from the outer border ; the spot at the extremity of the cell is 

 broader than the others, sometimes equalled by tlie lowermost ; basal half of fringe 

 like the outer border; apical half pallid or wliitish. Hind tciuj/s dark gray brown, 

 scarcely with a greenish tinge, the central portion of the basal third of the wing with 

 more or fewer scattered, greenish coppery scales, the inner lialf with numerous gray 

 brown hairs; outer border edged delicately with dark brown, followed by a broad 

 band of orange red, broader tlian an interspace, extending from tlie inner border to the 

 middle of the upper subcostal interspace, interrupted in tlie middle of each interspace 

 by a small, round, blackish spot, occupying the exterior Ijorder of the band, or causing 

 it to be sharply crenulate ; next the sliglitly sinuous interior edge, iu the middle of 

 each interspace, is a faint, vague, roundish spot, slightly deeper in tint than the pre- 

 vailing color, often scarcely discernible, capped by a cluster of perhaps half a dozen 

 pale blue scales and these again by another indistinct dark spot; the extremity of the 

 cell is marked by a narrow, blackish stripe; fringe as in the fore wings, the pale ex- 

 terior half interrupted with brownish at the tip of the lower median and subraedian 

 nervules. 



Beneath /ore wjngrs orange red, a little paler than the upper surface, without any 

 coppery lustre; the dark spots of the upper surface are repeated l)eueath iu velvety 

 black, nearly as large, quite as distinct, their corners rounded, edged Ijy a few scat- 

 tered orange scales, and these by an obscure narrow encircling of white; in addition, 

 there is a small, round spot, exactly similar to the others in character, lying in the 

 cell, midway between the base and the extra-mesial cellular spot; the outer margin is 

 oroadly bordered, below to the width of an interspace, next the costal margin nearly 

 or quite as far as the black spots, with brownish slate gray ; in all the interspaces be- 

 low the subcostal (on the upper slightly, in the others distinctly) broadly bordered 

 with blackish, forming a stripe interrupted by the nervures; inner border, as far as 

 the submedian, and. previous to its Urst divarication, as far as tlie median nervure, 

 bordered with gray, enlivened by a greenish tint and a few orange scales; costal edge 

 narrowly gray ; fringe like the outer bordering, but deeper in color, with a greenish 

 tinge along the base and paler on the outer half. Hind wings brownish slate gray, 

 slightly darker in a broad border to the outer margin, especially at its interior fuscous 

 limit at from one and a half to two interspace's distance from the margin ; in the 



