POLYOMMATUS. 83 



Chrysalis reddish ; wing envelopes greenish ; back with four 



rows of obscure spots. 



United States. — Expands an inch. 



Boisd. 



POLYOMMATUS Latr. 



Palpi very straight ; last article naked, rather long and subu- 

 late ; head more narrow than the thorax; antennce long, terminated 

 by a fusiform elongated club ; anal angle of the secondaries in 

 most males a little prolonged ; posterior edge usually somewhat 

 emarginate before this angle, in the females. 



Ground color of the wings more or less lively fulvous, at least 

 in one of the sexes. The females always have some black points 

 on the upper side. 



1. P. comyntas Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 660. Figured in Boisd. et 

 Lee. pi. 36, p. 120. 



Upper side of the male violet blue, posterior edge blackish. 



Upper side of the female blackish-brown, sometimes uniform, 

 sometimes with the base covered with bluish dust. Fringe white 

 in both sexes; secondaries, with a marginal row of small round 

 spots, of which one or two, near the filiform tail, are surmounted 

 with a reddish arc. 



Under side gray, with a central arc, then a flexuous line of 

 small ocellate points, circled with white, and two marginal lines 

 of small brownish spots. Secondaries, with a row of two or three 

 basal black points, and two anal triangular crescents, reddish- 

 yellow, with black ends, each supported on a very black point, but 

 separated from it by a small arc of shining gold-green atoms. 



Larva dirty greenish-white ; an interrupted dorsal ray, and 

 oblique lateral russety streaks ; near the head, a transverse streak 

 blackish, and near the tail, two greenish triangular spots. Head 

 black. 



Chrysalis yellowish ; wing envelopes paler, and four dorsal rows 



of obscure points. 



United States. — Expands a little over an inch. 



Boisd. 



