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e large white unpupilled or scarce-pupilled spots. The 
: e may be light gray to dark stone color, usually dark- 
females ; and the basal area and inner margin of the 
plentifully sprinkled with greenish scales, and 
with long white hairs. There may be a white dash, 
ainest on the primaries from the discal arc to the base of the 
ngs. Above in the male, the color is lilac blue, with usually 
ra wide black border. The female is dusky, with blue 
ales about the base of the wings. 
iacis (from San Francisco) is the same above as -rerces. 
selow, the white spots form a wide margin to the black pupils, 
which may be quite small, especially on the secondaries, or 
_ quite large and more or less reniform on the primaries. The 
* ‘form mertila is antiacis with the white dash from the discal 
spot to the base, and with small black spots on the secondaries. 
_ The insect figured in Wright's “Butterflies of the West Coast” 
_ as mertila apparently lacks the white dash to the discal spot 
_ (a character of mertila), and is therefore not mertila, but 
_— antiacis, I have a female rerces in my collection with four of 
t seven white spots on the underside of the primaries unpu- 
" , and the pupils on the secondaries are almost obsolete. 
Several other specimens in my series show these white spots 
_ with their pupils becoming obsolete. A male antiacis which | 
possess has two indistinct, unpupilled white spots below on the 
_ fight primary, none at all on the left one, and but four (pu- 
pilled) spots on each of the secondaries. It is very plain there- 
fore that these “blues” are subject to much variation, and this 
has not been sufficiently considered. 
_ Lycaena behrii, as described by Edwards, is typically repre- 
_ sented in a “blue” frequenting the San Francisco Bay region, 
_ but is not found within the city and county of San Francisco. 
z sep insect is also lilac blue, but the lilac tint is not so strong as 
in @ntiacis and xerces. It differs also from these two in the 
n of the wings; in behrii they are more rounded, therefore 
7 oo er, and of greater breadth. The female behrii is duskier 
than that of antiacis and xerces, and has little if any blue at 
| the base of the wings. On the underside the wings are “uni- 
_ form dark brownish-gray” as described by Edwards, with the 
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