82 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



or ocellated points, and often a marginal band of yellow spots. 

 The females differ from the males in being often brown or blackish. 

 Wings rounded, and ordinarily without tails. Some species have 



a small filiform process. 







1. A. filenus Poey, Cent. A. Hanno ? Hubn. A. ubaldus Grodt. A. pseu- 



doptiletes Boisd. Figured in Hubn. Exot. Samml. Cram? 390. L. M. 

 Boisd. et Lee. pi. 35, p. 114. 



Upper side of the male blue, with a slight black border ; fringe 

 whitish. In both sexes there is a small black round spot near the 

 marginal edge of the secondaries. 



Under side ash-gray, usually more pale in the male than in the 

 female, with a discoidal crescent on the middle of each, and three 

 sinuous, common bands, formed of small black spots circled with 

 white, of which the posterior are a little less distinct and somewhat 

 sagittate. The space which separates the internal band of the 

 median is usually whiter than the rest, and forms a band of small 

 white quadrangular spots. The base of the secondaries has a 

 transverse row of three very black points, circled with white ; of 

 which the external is largest. The secondaries have on the mar- 

 ginal edge and near the anal angle, a black eye, more or less circled 

 with yellow, sprinkled behind with golden-green atoms. 



Southern States. Expands three-fourths of an inch. 



BOISD. 



2. A. pseudargiolus Boisd. et Lee. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. pi. 36, 



p. 118. 



Upper side of the male tender violet blue, with a slight black 

 edge, often widened on the primaries. Fringe whitish and black. 



Upper side of the female paler blue and less violet, a wide black 

 border on the primaries, and a marginal row of black points ; a 

 small black arc at the extremity of the discoidal cellule. 



Under side obscure gray, with a brown discoidal streak, a trans- 

 verse sinuous line of black points a little circled with white, and a . 

 marginal row of brownish triangular crescents, each one supported 

 by a point more obscure. At the base of the primaries, a trans- 

 verse row of three distinct black points. 



Larva green, pubescent; back yellowish; a median interrupted 

 ray, cut transversely by a wide arc ; oblique streaks on the sides ; 

 near the feet a marginal ray, dark green ; head black. 



