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intersected with bUck; below dmrk, ashy; forewings with 

 bhck ocellatcd spots; secondaries with a broad, transverse, 

 toothed, white band and with blade, ocellated spots in the 

 basal area? (basilanbus.) 



(Free translation from the French.) 

 Thb beautiful species docs not resemble any of our European 

 species. It is a little larger tBan our battus. Above the wings 

 are violet-blue with a rather wide dusky border and white 

 fringe broken with black. Below it is dark cinder-colored : 

 the forewings are marked with one basal spot, with a central 

 hmnlc and with a mmoas line of wdl ocdlated bbck spots; 

 oolaidc of the sinnoas Knc one can see a tort of whitened 

 band followed by little black crescents. On the secondaries 

 the base is even more obacnrc and offers towards the base 

 some blade, ocellated spots, upon the cellule a whitened blot, 

 next in order a row of black spots followed by a very dear 

 white transverse band, toothed like a saw. 

 The female differs from the male in that one can percdve on 

 the upper side of the seooodaries the trace of two or three 

 obsolete tawny hmules. 

 This charming LyrMiM was taken by M. Lorquin in the far 

 South in the vidnity of Los .\ngeles. 

 From the above descriptions I drew the following conclu- 

 sions: 



The wider side of L. rhara (or more properly speaking L. 

 sagihigera, Felder, syn. L. rhaea, Boisd., since Felder de- 

 scribed it before Boisduval's second paper was published) is 

 strikingly different from any other species. Boisduval no- 

 tices this at once in his description. If Lorquin had sent him 

 any of these specimens prior to 1852 he would have describ- 

 ed them fully in his first paper just as he did in his second 

 paper. Sagittigera reaches its perfection in Southern Califor- 

 nia where Lorquin collected it subsequent to 1852. 



Concerning L. piasus this is not strikingly different from 

 certain other species and Boisduval did not exert himself to 

 give a careful detailed description. We note its juxtaposi- 

 tion to L. pseudargiolus in the list of descriptions, and we 

 know that it is somewhat different. It is one of our com- 

 monest spring butterflies and Lorquin could not have failed 

 to send a large series of them prior to 1852. If Boisduval 

 intended his description of piasus to cover sagittigera, where 



