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Considered to be a Polar variety of Orbifii/im, wliicli it closely resembles, but is smaller, and on under sur- 

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

 in I^abrador at 57° N. L. and from thence nortiiward. 



♦fKoDiAK, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 111., p. 20, (1870). Syn. N. Am. Hutt., p. 37, (1872). 

 Cupido Kodiak, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 37(5, (1871). 

 With regard to this species I can do no more than copy the description, as 1 have heretofore done in the 

 cases of such a.s I do not know and consider (h)ubtful. 



"Male. Expands 1.2o inch. Upper siile dull violet hkie ; raargin.s narrowly edged with fuscous; fringes sordid white. Under 

 side fawn colour, bluoish at base; slisjlitly clouded with ,;;rey on secondaries; both winsjs have fuscous discal bars, edged with whiteish ; 

 a common median row of rounded fuscous s]]ols, ;dl i-d};cd with whitisli, that of primaries curved beyond the cell, of secondaries (larallel 

 to the margin ; a common suli-marninal row of faint spnts, the second from anal angle surmounted by ;i round spot, perhaps belonging to 

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

 beneath blue grav ; palpi white at base, furnished with long hairs, black at tip ; antenna' black, aunulated with white ; club black above, 



Iferuginous below and at tip. Female. K.tpands 1.3 inches. Upper side light brown, deep blue at base, covering half the wing on pri- 

 maries, fading graduallv towards the hind margin, and on secondaries covering the cell and \ipper abdominal margin ; primaries have a 

 curved black line at extremity of cell : faint traces of hilvous spots next anal angle. Under side as in male. From Kodiak, 1 -^ 1 -f' . 

 Collection Dr. Behr." 



(PL. X, 14 S', 1-J ?•) 

 JRapahoe, Reakirt, Proc. Eut. St)c., Phila., Vol. VI, p. 146, (1866). Edwards, Syn. \. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 

 Cupido Rapuhoe, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., )). 377, (1871). 

 The figures on t. X are drawn from the original types which were taken in the Rocky Mts. of Colorado. 



♦fNEsms, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 50, (1869). Fklwards, Syn. N. Am. Lep., p. 33, (1872). 

 Cupido Nentos, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 363, (1871). 

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



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



Folyommatiis learioides, Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 12, (i860) ; Syn. Eep. N. Am., p. 88, (1862). 

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

 Ex|)ands 1 1-5 inch. Male; violet blue with exterior margins of all wings narrowly bordered with 

 brown ; fringes white. P\male ; greyish brown tinged with violet towards the base. Underneath both sexes 

 are almost white; 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 black points near ba.se, a discal bar, a mesial and sub-marginal 

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



*tPHiLEROS, Boisduval, Lej). Cal., p. 50, (1869). Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 

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

 Probably the same as the preceding. 



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

 Cupido Hegia, 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 North American specie.S, 

 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); Svn. N. Am. Butt., p. 34, (1872). Morrix, 

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

 Expands 1| inch. Males dark violet blue edged exteriorly with a black line. Female brown, suttused 

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

 more or less distinct in different examples. Fringe in both sexes white. Under surface grey; on all wings a 

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

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

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

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



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

 Cupido Battoide,-i, 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 ailditional black spot in 

 cell of 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, Coloratlo, etc., — scarce. 



