84 LYCJ5NA. 



*tIsoLA, Reakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., p. 332, ( 1866 ). Edwards, Syu. N. Am. Butt., p. 35, (1872). 

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

 This is another species with which I am entirely unacquainted, the types from which it was de.scribed 

 were from Mexico. Mr. W. H. Edwards in his synopsis says also, Waco, Texas. I append Mr. Reakirt's 

 description. 



"t'pper surface brownisli bl.-u'k, glossed with violet blue; a lilack ti-rminal line, broadest at tlie apex of the fore wings, thence 

 diminishing to the anal angle ; a >niall rounded, submarginal black spot near the latter; fringe white. I'nderneath dark ash grey: 

 primaries with two submargiiial, slightly waved whitish lines ; interior to these a row of six large rounded black spots, all ringed with 

 white; two white streaks at the end of the cell. Secondaries with a submarginal row of indistinct brown spots, of which the three 

 nearest the anal angle are black, the lirst and third irrorated with metallic golden-green atoms, and the third surmounted by yellowish 

 lunule; all the others arc preceded by whitish crescents; above these there is a suHuscd white belt, and still farther, two double rows of 

 waved and crcnulated whitish lines ; a small sub-costal black ocellus near the base. A narrow terminal black line edges the outer 

 margin of the four wings ; fringe ashy white. Expanse .88 inch. Antennae black ringed witli white. Ilab., Mexico ( near Vera Cruz) ." 



*tGYAS, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. See, Vol. Ill, j). 210, (1871); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. :!5, (1872). 

 Another species of doubtful validity, the description says : 



"Mate. — Expands .95 inch. Upper side pale violet bhie, immaculate except a fu.scoua point near anal angle. Under side pale 

 brown will) a wash of whitisli ; primaries liave a faint, discal bar, and a straight row of spots across the wing, the second and fourth back 

 of the line; all edged with white; on margin traces of lunules. .Secondaries have a similar discal bar and a median row of spots; a 

 small round fuscous spot in cell, two others on costa, one near middle the other near base ; a faint row of spots on hind margin, of 

 which the two next anal angle are distinct, blackish. From Arizona, taken by Dr. Palmer, and in the collection of the Agricultural 

 Department." 



Lygdamx's, Doubleday, [Polyommntua L.) Entomologist, ]>. 209, (18-12). 



Lyccna Lygdamus, Edwards, Butt. N. Am., t. 1, Lye, (1868); Syn. N. Am. Butt., ]i. 37, (1872). 



Cupido Li/f/damus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 368, (1871). 



Male expands 1^ to 1^ inches, upj)er side is beautiful silvery blue with narrow black margins exteriorly, 



and greyish fringes. Female smaller, not so bright, and the outer half of wings much sufiFused with grey. 



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 of primaries, all spots encircled with white. Southern United States — rare. 



(PL. X, F. 10 (J, 11 e.j 

 Pembina, Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. 224, (1862) ; Syu. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 

 Thec/a Pembina, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 401, (1871). 

 Glaitcopsyche (ouperi, Grote, Bull. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sc, Vol. I., p. 185, (1874). 

 Allied to Lyydanius which it resembles very closely, especially on the upper surface ; I have made full 

 comparisons between the s]>ecies on p. 69 of this work. I^abrador, British Columbia, Oregon. 



Since Mr. ^^'. H. Edwards de.scribed this species, it very nearly had the misfortune of losing its birth- 

 right : the author having through accident lost his types; and what was equally unfortunate, his memory even 

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

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

 juncture the great Species-mill gave a revolution or two or three and the Lyctena was transmogrified into 

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

 of the mill, which latter was of course understood to make the insect immortal, but alas ! " All glory but daz- 

 zles and dies " and so was it with " Glaucopsyche Couperi Grote," for " Like the swift shadows of noon, like 

 the dreams of the blind it vanished away as the dust in the wind," and in its place stantfe the Prodigal Pem- 

 bina, tired of the 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). 



Polyommaim Anfiacis, Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 12, (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 90, (1862). 

 (Jupido Antiacis, Kirby, 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 little blucish 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). 

 Thecla Behrii, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 400, (1871).*) 

 Lycana Polyphemus, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., 49, (1869). 

 Cnipido Polyphemus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 373, (1871). 

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

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



*) In Kirby's Catalogue there are two species confounded under one name on p. 400, thus " 337, T. Behrii, Edw., Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sc, Phil., 1862 ;" and '' Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1870, p. 18," the first citation refers to the above Lycaena, and the second is Thecla Behrii, an 

 entirely different thing, though it was rather ill advised in Mr. Edwards to designate species by the same name that are in groups io 

 closely connected as the Eyca^na and Thecla. 



