EASTERN UNITED STATES. 297 



128. Lycena Ammon, Luc. 



Expanse of wings 1.05 inches. 



Male. — Upper surface clear violet-blue, the edge of 

 the wings black, and a small black spot near the anal 

 angle. Fringes white, cut with black at the ends of the 

 veins, broadly so on the fore wings. 



Under side dark gray. The fore wings have a gray 

 bar at the end of the cell, with a white line on each side ; 

 beyond the cell a curved row of intervenular gray spots, 

 each with its inner and outer border of white. Along the 

 outer fourth of the wing is a broad white band, dentate 

 without, and a subterminal row of white lunules en- 

 closing gray spots, the anterior half of lunules somewhat 

 dusky. Edge of wings black, with a white inner border. 



Hind wings with the same markings, the white band 

 broader; in addition, the basal half has three round 

 black spots annulate with white, — one in the cell, two 

 near the costal margin, — and a gray spot near the inner 

 margin. Near the anal angle are two round black spots, 

 with a more or less complete annulus of metallic blue 

 scales, the outer spot having before it an orange lunule. 



Female. — Upper surface the same as in the male, outer 

 part of hind wings a little paler, with costal and outer 

 border of black; the latter on the fore wings a little 

 mottled with blue, and on the hind wings containing a 

 series of blue lunules and two bright black spots, the 

 outer, or one farthest from the anal angle, with an orange 

 lunule before it. Under side the same as in the male. 



Food-plant and larva unknown. The species is a 

 native of Cuba, but has been found at Indian River 

 and in Southern Florida. 



