302 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



2. A.? multifaria Walker, 479. 



Allied to Fuchromia? Metallic blue. Head, prothorax and 

 sides of .the thorax clothed with rosy hairs. Abdomen extending 

 very little beyond the hind wings. Tore coxa?, knees and tips of 

 the tibiae white. Palpi red, very much shorter than the head ; 

 third joint conical, very small. Wings black, rather long and 

 narrow, tinged with blue towards the base ; costa and fringe mostly 

 white ; first and second inferior veins very near together at the 

 base ; third full four times further from the fourth than from the 

 second. .Length of the body 1 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



California. 



Walker. 



ARDONEA Walker. 



Male. Body rather slender, nearly linear, moderately long. 

 Palpi hairy, much shorter than the head ; third joint conical, not 

 more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae mode- 

 rately pectinated. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, extending for one- 

 fourth of its length beyond the hind wings, forcipated at the tip. 

 Legs rather slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 rather long and narrow. Fore wings hardly convex in front, 

 slightly angular behind ; first and second inferior veins united at 

 the base ; third very near the second ; fourth twice further from 

 the third than the third from the second. 



1. A. munda Walker, 1680. 



Female. Deep blue. Head, and fore part of the thorax and 



of the breast crimson. Palpi crimson, with black tips. Antennae 



black. Abdomen . extending for about one-third of its length 



beyond the hind wings. Wings moderately broad ; fringe white, 



with a black interval on the middle of the exterior border of each 



wing, and another towards the interior angle of the hind wings. 



St. Domingo. 



Walker. 



HYPOPREPIA Hubner. 



Female. Body stout, rather short, elongato-subfusiform. Head 

 rather small. Palpi stout, very much shorter than the head ; third 



