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XVII. Notes on North American Lepidoptera 



BY H. K. MORRISOX, OLD CAMBEIDGE, MASS. 

 [Bead before this Society Nov. 21, 1873.] 



Family LYCAENIDAE. 



Lycaena pseudofea {nov. sp.). 



Expanse, 17 m. m. Length of body, 6 m. m. 



Palpi above dark brown ; beneath white, clothed with scattered stout 

 black hairs, most numerous on the second and third joints. Front darli, with 

 narrow conspicuous white lines encircling the eves. Antennae alternated white 

 and black, club at its commencement dark reddish-brown, shading to red at 

 the tip ; body above dark brown, almost black ; beneath whitish. Wings above 

 uniform dark brown, deeper at the base, and there concolorous with the body ; 

 anterior wings without defined markings; posterior wings with a series of 

 five small submargiual black spots, tlie three nearest the anal angle distinct, 

 the other two sometimes ahnost obliterated ; fringe concolorous, without any 

 trace of white. Beneath, ground color of a uniform brown, considerably lighter 

 than above ; anterior wings with a white ring (enclosing a spot of the ground 

 color) .5 m. m. in diameter in the center of the basal third of the wing, rest- 

 ing upon the median nervure at its junction with the fourth median nervule ; 

 beneath and touching this ring, another, bounded above by the median nervure 

 and fourth median nervule, and resting on the submedian nervure. This 

 latter is an ellipsis, major axis .75 m. m., minor, .50 m. m. It is the nearest to 

 the base of the wing. Two submarginal rows of faint white spots, situated 

 between the nervules. Between the basal rings and the two submarginal rows 

 of spots, the wings are crossed by four white parallel lines, interrupted by 

 the nervules and obliterated slightly before the costa and inner margin of 

 the wings. These lines are perpendicular to the costa, and not parallel to the 

 submarginal spots. Posterior wings beneath, with a series of three white 

 rings (enclosing spots of the ground color) directly beneath each other, and in 

 the basal third of the wings. A submarginal band of six conspicuous black 

 Bpots between the nervules. Before this a narrow white band surrounding 

 the spots, and extending between them along the nervules. The spot nearest 

 the anal angle is almost entirely covered with metallic green, and the rest of 

 the spots present detached scales of this color, generally on the side nearest 

 the margin. The disc of the wings between the submarginal baud and the 

 three white rings is covered with a series of interrupted white lines. 



