180 MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 



Jii tlie early spring form, proljably most inimerous tlironglioiit the 

 country, the upper side of tlie male (Fig. 1) is a rich satiny or a/AU'e 



Lycajiia pseudaigiolus. 

 Fig. 1. Male. 



hlue, deepest near the base of all four wings. The upper wings are 

 margined outwardly with a narrow shading of blackish, widest and 

 heaviest at tlie apex of the wing. The lower wings are edged on 

 their outer margin with a narrow, dark line. Both pairs of wings 

 are fringed with gray, darker toward the apex of the upper wings, 

 and interrupted on both wings with black dots. The body is 

 black. Insects with these colors above have at least tliree varieties 





Lycajna pseudargiolus. Under side. 

 Fig. 2. ]\rale. 



where the colors beneath differ. Fig. 2 is light gray beneath, having 

 a row of lio-ht brown dots aloup- the outer maro-jn of all four wiiiQ-s 

 enclosed on the inner side with a scalloped line of the same color. 

 An irregular row of dark brown spots cross the upper wings near 

 their outer margin, the remainder being plain gray, slightly darker 

 along the upper margin. A numljcr of black spots are scattered over 

 the lower wings. The thorax is light gray, the abdomen nearly 

 white. In Fig. 3 the under side is bluish-gray, darker tlian Fig. 2. 



