lie. 



fifths tlie distance from the base to the apex of the cell ; the secoud at the 

 middle of the outer half of the cell, the latter scarcely less than half as 

 long as the wing. The upper surface of the wings have a rather broad brown 

 bordering, broadest in the female, somewhat resembling Cupido in this re- 

 spect ; on the under surface the spots have nearly the same position as in 

 Cyaniris, but on the fore wings are round at ocelli instead of oblique bars, 

 and the space between the estramesial and submarginal markings of the hind 

 wings, is paler than the rest of the surface, producing somewhat the appear- 

 ance seen in suffused varieties of Cyaniris. 



212. sagitti^era Feld., No vara. Exp. Zool., 2, 2, 281-2, pi. 35, figs. 20-1 {Ly- 

 caena) ; Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 354 (Cupido) ; lb., ib., 653 {Plebeius). 



Catalina Ileak., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil., 1866, 244 {Lycaena) ; 



Streck., Lep. Rhop.-Het., 86, 120, pi. 10, figs. 1, 1, 2 {Lijcaenn). 



Lorqidni Belir, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc, 3, 280 {Lycaena) ; Streck., 



Lep. Rhop.-Het., yO {Lycaena). 

 Rliaea Boisd., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 12, 51 {Lycaena) ; Streck., Lep. 



Rhop.-Het., 88 {Lycaena). 

 Viaca Edw., Trans. Ann. Ent. Soc, 3, 209 {Lycaena); Streck., Lep. 



Rhop.-Het., 89-90 {Lycaena). 

 Daunia Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 3, 272 {Lycaena). 

 Southern and Middle California, Sierra Nevada, Colorado (Sonora). 



18. PHILOTES Scudder. 



Type : Lycaena regia Boisd. 



This exquisite group of Blues, by far the most brilliant of our North Ameri- 

 can forms, presents, in the markings of the under surface (as Felder has 

 already observed) a certain resemblance to the preceding genus, to which, also, 

 it is allied by structure. The antennae have much the same form, though the 

 club is slightly shorter ; the palpi are long, slender, and rather densely clothed 

 beneath. The hind wings are longer than in Phaedrotes, and the cell of the 

 fore wings is distinctly more than half the length of the wing. The legs are 

 proportionally much shorter than in Phaedrotes, and the middle tibiae much 

 larger in proportion to the tarsi than in that genus ; the fore tibiae are little 

 more than four-fifths, and the middle tibiae nine-tenths as long as the hind 

 tibiae ; the femora are densely clothed with long spreading hairs. 



243. sonoreiisis i^ffcZ., Novara. Exp. Zool. ,2, 2,281, pi. 35, figs. 3-4 {Lycaena); 



Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 354 {Cupido) ; lb., ib., 653 {Plebeius). 

 Southern California? (Sonora). 



244. regia Boisd., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 12, 46 {Lycaena); Kirb., Syn. Cat. 



Lep., 366 {Cupido); lb., ib., 653 {Plebeius); Keferst., Zeitschr. Ges. 



Naturw.,44, 22S\{Cigaritis?); Edw., Butt. N. Am. 2, pi. Lye 1, figs. 



1-4 {Lycaena); Streck., Lep. Rhop.-Het., 87 {Lycaena). 

 Southern and Central California. 



This species is very closely allied to the preceding, and may prove to bi^ 

 identical with it. 



