84 LYC.ENA. 



*tIsoi,A, Reakirt, Proo. A.ad. Nat. Sc Phila., p. 332, (1866). EdwardU, Svn. N. Am. Butt., ,.. 35. (1872) 



C?(/>?rfo /so/rt, Air6!/, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 376, ( 1871 ). ' ' i » \ /• 



Thi.s is another speoies with whi.h I an. entirely unacquainted, the types fron. which it wae de.soribed 



were from Mexico. ^Ir. M . H. Edwanls in his synopsis says also, Waco, Texas. I append Mr. Reakirfs 



flescription. 



" l-pper Mirfacv browni.l, black, k1<«s«c1 with violet blue; « l.lack terminal line, bn.adest at the apex of the fi.re winL^ th^nn. 



hinnle; all the o hers are preceded l,v wl„t,sh crescents; above thes<. there is a suHused white belt, and still far.hrtwo lui.irrows of 

 waved and creniilated whitish lines; a small sub-costal black ocellus near the base A. narrow term!.,- I, T'lin ,i . 



ma,^.,. of the f.ur win^s ; fringe ashv white. Kxpanse .88 inch. An.en.L ^^r^i^^^L^"^^, Z:^.-^^ 



*tGYA.s Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. S.,,., Vol. Ill, p. 210, (1871); Svn. N. Am. Butt., p. :;5 (1872) 



Another species (it (loiil)tful validity, the description .says: 



•• J)/»/c.-i:xpan.ls .95 ii.eh. Upper side pale violet blue, immaculate except a fuscous point near anal angle Under side uale 



brown with a wash ot whitish : primaries have a faint, discal bar, and a straight row of spots acros,s the wing the fcond and Lrh blck 



o. the line; a 1 ,dged with white: on m.trgM, traces of lunnles. Secondarie. have a similar discal bar an I a iiiedUn row of s o,^ a 



stiial round fuscous .spot m cell, two others on costa, one near middle the other near base; a faint row of Z^on h^nd mX^'of 



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Lygdamts, Doubleday, {Polyomtiiatus L.) Entomologist, p. 209, (1842) 



Lycuna Lygdamm, E,ly-ard,, Butt. \. Am., t. 1, Lye, (1868); Svn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, |1872) 



(.Myjfrfo y.i/(/r/f(m(M, A/r%, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. :568, (1871). ' i > / 



Male c.xpancl.s 1 J- to 1 J inches upper side is beautiful silvery blue with narrow black margins exteriorly 



ant^ greyish fnngi^s. l<emale smaller, not so bright, and the outer half of wings much suffused with <.rey 



Both sexes, beneath, grey with black discal bars and sub-marginal rows of large, black spots, two spots "near 



base of secondaries, one near base ot primaries, all spots encircled with white. Southern United States— rare. 



(PL. X, F. lOd', 11 9.) 

 Pembina, Edwards, Proc. Ac^d. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. 224, (1862); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872) 

 Ihecla Fembina, Kvrby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 401, (1871). 

 Glaucopsyche touperi, Grote, Bull. Buf. See. Nat. Sc, Vol. I., p. 185 (1874) 

 Allied to Ly,jchmus which it resembles very clo.sely, especially on the upper surface ; I have made full 

 comparisons betAvcen the species on p. 69 of this work. Labrador, British Columbia, Oregon 



Since Mr W . H. Edvvards described this species, it very nearly had the misfortune of losing its birth- 

 right : the author having through accident lost his typeS ; and what wtis equally unfortunate, his niemory even 

 when aided by the lengthy original dc^erijition would not allow him to identify with any certainty, examples 

 that were subse.|uently submitted to him. This was rather placing the species'in a forlorn position, but at this 

 juncture the great Species-null gave a revolution or two or three and the Lyetena was transmogrified into 

 Waueopsyche a new specific name was of course added, and the whole fabrication attached to the trade mark 

 ot the iriill, which atter was of course understood to make the insect immortal, but alas ! " All -lory but daz- 

 zles a.id dies and so was it wit_h " (ilaueopsyche Couperi (irote," for " Like the swift shadows" of 'noon, like 

 the dreams of the blin.l it vanishetl away as the dust in the wind," and in its place stands the Prodigal Pem- 

 bina, tired of Ihe husks and returned to its first honourable estate and title. 



Antiacls, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 300, (1852). Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37 (1872) 



FolyommaHLs Antiacis JWs, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 12, (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 90, (1862) 

 Viipido Antiacm, Airby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 371, (1871). 

 Not quite as large as the two preceding. Male violet blue on upper side with white fringe. Female 

 brownish grey^a ittlc l.lue.sli towards base— under surface in both sexes coloured and marked much as in 

 Lygdamus. California. 



Behrii, Edward.s, Proc Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. 224, (1862); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872) 

 Jheda Behni, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 400, (1871).*! 

 Lyeana Polyphemus, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., 49, (1869;. 

 Cupido Polyphtmu.^, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 373, (1871). 

 Another species closely allied to Lygdamus and Pembina, but is generally a little larger than either of 

 tliem ; the blue m the male is more violaceous and less lustrous, and the female on upper side is, with the 



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