274 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dered with dusky brown ; hind wings with a few small black 

 Fi 104 spots on the middle, and a broad cop- 



pery-red band on the hind margin. 

 The wings expand from 1-fV to lj 

 inch. This butterfly is found through- 

 out the summer fluttering on the 



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grass and other low plants. The 

 caterpillar is long, oval, and slightly convex above, and of 

 a greenish color ; it probably lives, like the Phlceas, on the 

 leaves of dock and sorrel. The chrysalis, which is usually 

 suspended under a stone, is light yellowish-brown, and spot- 

 ted with black dots. 



The Epixanthe butterfly, Lyccena Epixanthe (Boisduval), 

 resembles the preceding in form and size, but is of a dusky 

 brown color above, with a few black spots on the middle of 

 the wings, and a narrow, wavy band, or a few contiguous 

 spots of an orange color on the hinder margin of the pos- 

 terior wings. This species is rather rare. The wings in 

 both these butterflies are entire, or not notched or tailed, and 

 the knobs of their antenna are short, thick, and nearly oval. 



There are others with the hind wings also entire and 



rounded, but the knobs of the antennas are longer and not 



near so thick, and their caterpillars are shorter and very 



convex above. These characters exist in the beautiful 



azure-blue butterfly, Polyommatu* Pseudargiolm (Boisd.), 



(Fig. 105, male, Fig. 106, var. profile,) which measures 



Fig. 105. Fig. 106. from 1 T V to l inch 



v , j*V^N across the wings. These 



^^^^Lk^^9^fe ^JIHA in the male are light 



xSp mr ^sHBl/' k' ue on tne upper side, 



^Hl iJv ^ W ^SBp^ with the lustre of satin ; 



' the fore wings of the 



female have a broad blackish outer margin, and on that of 



the hind wings is a row of small blackish spots ; all the 



wings on the under side are pearl-gray, with little blackish 



spots ; the fringes of the wings are white. 



