88 FIELD AND FOREST. 



Primaries less produced, the hind margins convex. Similar to 

 male in color and markings; beneath, the lines are all heavier; and 

 the palpi are less orange, rather yellow-white. 



From four % three $ sent me by Mr. Boll and taken at San An- 

 tonio. Smaller than Borealis, and with greater difference in shape 

 between the sexes than in that species. 



Lycaena Striata. 



Male. — Expands i inch. 



Upper side dull pruinose-blue, the secondaries of a gray shade ; the 

 wings delicate, allowing niuch of the marking of under side to be discov- 

 ered above ; primararies edged by an illy-defined fuscous line, a little 

 expanded towards apex, secondaries by a clear black line ; fringes of 

 primaries fuscous next to the marginal edge, white outside, of secon- 

 daries pure white. Under side gray-white ; both wings banded from 

 base nearly to margin with pale fuscous ; on secondaries these bands 

 are macular ; on primaries nearly regular, but the bands do not pass the 

 lower branch of median ; hind margins edged by a common series of 

 pale fuscous crenated spots, each enclosing a small concolored rounded 

 spot, except next anal angle, where are two round velvet black spots,, 

 the outer one largest ; these are faintly margined by yellow and thin 

 surfaces a little sprinkled with brilliant metallic blue scales, mostly 

 arranged along the edges. 



Female. — Expands .95 inch. 



The costal and hind margin and base of primaries pale fuscous, the 

 disk whitish, and a blue tint over basal area ; on the disk appear four 

 or five spots caused by the transparency of the wing ; secondaries had 

 the costal margin largely pale fuscous and the remainder of the wing 

 nearly pure white, excepting along the' hind margin, where there is a 

 fuscous band enclosing rounded white spots, each of which itself 

 encloses a fuscous spot on the marginal side ; the inner spot on lower 

 median iuterspace is blackish, under side as on the male. 



From 1 S 1 9 received from Mr. Boll, and taken at San Anto- 

 nio. The species belongs to Group V. of my Catalogue. 



Thecla Clytie. 



Female. — Expands .8 inch. 



Upper side of primaries blackish, except on the inner margin up to 

 cell, on which area the color is lighter blue, forming a pretty regular 

 arc of a circle, terminating at three fourths the distance from base to 



