PL. XCI 



(3) Lycoena.melissa Edwards, Plate XC, Fig. 4, 9 (The 

 Orange-margined Blue). 



The male on the upper side is pale blue, with a narrow black 

 marginal line and white fringes. The female is brown 01 

 lilac-gray with a series of orange-red crescents on the outer 

 margin of both wings. The wings below are stone-gray with 

 the usual spots, but on the hind wings the orange crescents are 

 oblong tipped inwardly with black and outwardly with me- 

 tallic green. Expanse 0.90-1.15 inch. 



Ranges from Arizona to Montana. 



(4) Lyccena scudderi Edwards, Plate XCI, Fig. 1, cT (Scud- 

 der's Blue). 



Our figure gives a good idea of the upper side of the male, 

 which is hard to discriminate from the same sex of L. melissa. 

 The female is darker, and has only a few orange crescents on 

 the outer margin of the hind wing on the upper side. On the 

 under side the wings are shining white, the spots much re- 

 duced in size, the large orange spots found in L. melissa being 

 replaced by little ochreous spots very obscurely tipped ex- 

 ternally by a few greenish scales. 



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