LYC^ENA. 87 



Considered to be a Polar variety of Orbitulus, which it closely resembles, but is smaller, and on under sur- 

 face the marks are much more sharply defined and the ground colour darker, especially on secondaries. Found 

 in Labrador at 57° N. L. and from tiience northward. 



t-KoDiAK, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. III., p. 20, (1870). Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 

 Cupido Kodiak, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 376, (1871). 

 With regard to this species I can do no more than copy the description, as I have heretofore done in the 

 cases of such as I do not know and consider doubtful. 



"Male. Expands 1.2') incb. Upper siJe dull violet lilue ; margins narrowly edged with I'liscous; fringes sordid wliite. I'nder 

 side fawn colour, bliieish at base ; slightlv clouded with grev on secondaries : both wings have fuscous discal bars, edged with whiteish : 

 a common median row of rounded fuscoiis spots, all edged with whitish, that of primaries curved beyond the cell, of secondaries parallel 

 to the margin ; a common sub-marginal row of faint spots, the second from anal angle surmounted by a round spot, perhaps belonging to 

 median row, but much posterior to tlie line of same; near base, a black point on cell and a second on costa. Body above blue, thorax 

 beneath blue gray ; palpi white at base, furnished with long hairs, black at tip ; antenna- black, aunulated with white ; club Ijlack above, 

 feruginous below' and at tip. Female. Expands 1.3 inches. Upper side light brown, deep l>lue at base, covering half the wing on pri- 

 maries, fading gradually towards the hind margin, and on secondaries covering the cell and upper alxlominal margin ; primaries have a 

 curved' black line at exiremity of cell ; faint traces of fulvous spots next anal angle. Under side as in male. From Kodiak, 1 rf 1 ?. 

 Collection Dr. Behr.'' 



(PL. X, 14 S\ 15 ?•) 

 IRapahoe, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. VI, p. 146, (_1866). Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 

 Cupido Rapahoe, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 377, (1871). 

 The fio-ures on t. X arc drawn from the original types which were taken in the Rocky Mts. of Colorado. 



tXESTOS, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 50, (1869). Edwurd.s, Syn. N. Am. Lep., p. 33, (1872). 



Cupido Nestos, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 363, (1871). . . , •■ j 



From Oregon. Entirely unknown to me, nor have I present access to the work in wiiich it is described. 



IcARioiDES, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 297, (1852). Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 



Polyommatiis Imrioidex, 3Iorri.% Cat. Lej). X. Am., p. 12, (i860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 88, (1862). 

 Cupido Imrioides, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 366, (1871). i i • i 



Expands 1 1-5 inch. Male; violet blue with exterior margins of all wings narrowly bordered with 

 brown ; fringes white. Female; greyisii brown tinged with violet towards the base. Underneath both sexes 

 are almost wliite; on primaries a large black discal spot, a mesial row of six black spots and a sub-marginal 

 row of smaller, fainter ones. Secondaries ; three biac^k points near base, a difscal bar, a mesial and sub-marginal 

 row of small black spots or points ; all the spots circled with white. Sierras of California, evidently rare. 



fPHiLEROS, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 50, (1869). Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 

 Cupido Phileros, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 366, (1871). 

 Probably the same as the preceding. 



*REaiA, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 46, (1869). Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 34, (1872). 

 Cupido Hegiu, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 366, (1871). 

 About an inch in expanse; the upper surface of the male is a most beautiful silvery blue, but what 

 obviates the necessity of all further description, and distinguishes this from all other Xorth American species, 

 is the large orange or gold-coloured patch near inner angle on primaries. The female is unknown to me. 

 Mountains of California, very rare. 



ScuDDERii, Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. 164, (1861); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 34, (1872). Morris, 

 Syn. Lep. X. Am., p. 329, (1862). 

 Expands \\ inch. Males dark violet blue edgetl exteriorly with a black line. Female brown, suffused 

 more or less with violet near base; on secondaries a sub-marginal connected row of orange or yellow lunules, 

 more or less distinct in diiferent exam|des. Fringe in both sexes white. Under surface grey ; on all wings a 

 discal bar and mesial row of black spots, also sub-marginal row of spots each surmounted by a crescent; the 

 space between these spots and crescents is yellow; sub-marginal spots of secondaries edged^ inwardly with sil- 

 very scales. The whole under surface is very like the European Argus L. Found in X". Labrador, British 

 Columbia, Canada, New England States, New York and Michigan. 



Battoides, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Xat. Sc, p. 282, (1867). Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 34, (1872). 

 Cupido Battoidea, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 360, (1871). 

 Expands nearly one inch. Male, on upper side, is dark violet-blue, with blackish exterior margins; 

 fringe smoky. Under side yellowish-grey, marked much as in Scudderii but has an additional black spot in 

 cellV primaries; all spots much heavier'than in that species, and no indications of silver or golden scales on 

 the sub-marginal spots of secondaries. The female I have not yet seen, but she is doubtless brown on upper 

 side. California, Colorado, etc., — scarce. 



