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FENISECA; LYCAEXA. By Dr. M. Deaudt. 

 7. Subgenus: lophanus nov. 



Tpyrrhias. Ch. pyrrhias G. db S. (145 f) is an entirely deviating animal which ought to form a special genus 



but iir the structure it entirely corresponds with virginiensis. Above purple with black veins, the hindwings 

 with red submarginal lunae and a violet antemarginal line. Beneath rosy-brown, with an ochreous disc of 

 the forewing and three transverse lines and cell- end streaks. Hitherto only found in Guatemala at altitudes 

 of 6 to 7000 feet, flying close to the soil and fond of resting on pig's droppings. 



8. Genus: Feiiiseca Grt. 



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The only genus being quite uncommon to the American fauna, by reason of its structure and biological 

 behaviour, shows unmistakable alliances to the Indo-Australian Gerydinae. The body is relatively stout, the 

 wings longer and narrower than usually; the antennae are short and stout with a non-deposited club. Palpi 

 comparative^ long, with a long pointed terminal joint. On the forewing the lowest subcostal vein is short- 

 petioled with the upper radial, otherwise there are no differences from the preceding genus. The life-history 

 of this peculiar animal is well known. 



The egg is hemispherical, more flat than high, covered with numerous fine longitudinal and transverse 

 ribs enclosing polygonal cell-spaces. The larva looks like a short slug and is covered with many bristly hairs 

 to which the crusts and exudations of the aphis forming the food of the larva adliere. The brown pupa on its 

 dorsal side shows an exact imitation of the shape of a monkey's face with the eyes, nose and mouth as elevations 

 and cavities. 



irquinius. P. tatqulnius F. {= crataegi Bsd., porsenna Scudd.) (145 f) is above lustreless yellow-brown with a 



black-brown costal margin and distal margin and some small spots which vary greatly in extent or may be 

 absent altogether. Beneath the colouring is lighter, at the costal margin and on the hindwings more cinnamon- 

 brown, strewn with lilac- white and marked with numerous darker, whitish-ringed spots. Com.mon in the Atlantic 

 States from Nova Scotia to Carolina. 



III. Group: Lycaenini. 



9. Genus: Xiycaeiia F. 



Characteristic is the course of the uppermost subcostal vein ^^hich is separated from the costal vein; 

 the lowest subcostal vein is one-partite. Palpi scaled, the two first joints covered with short, dense, bristly 

 hairs. Comp. for further particulars Vol. I, p. 298. 



L. fuliginosa Edw. (= 



1. Subgenus: Satyrium Scudd. 

 suasa Bsd.) (144 a) is above monotonously dark grey-brown in both sexes. 



Beneath it resembles the European semiargus (Vol. I, p. 119, t. 82 e), lighter brown-grey than above, towards 

 the base, preponderantly on the hindwings, with a bluish tint and a curved row of black, white-ringed post- 

 discal eye-spots, similar discal spots and more indistinct submarginal lunae. California, Utah, Nevada. 



2. Subgenus: Cupido Schrank. 



heteronea. L. heteronea Bsd. (144 a) is in the o above light blue with lighter veins and a fine black border, 



the 2 is brown with diaphanous spots on the under surface. The latter is almost white with large, jet-black 

 postdiscal spots on the forewings; on the hindwings they are quite light brownish; on both wings they recede 

 towards the base between the median veins. Colorado to California. 



clara. L. clara Edw. (144 a) greath^ approximates the preceding, and is smaller on an average, the $ above 



extensively dusted light blue, with distinctly diaphanous spots on the under surface which is somewhat duller, 

 more brownish, with several spots in the basal area also of the forewing. Sonora, California. 



Jycea. L. lycea Edic. (= rapahoe i?eai-.) (144 a). Likewise very similar to Tze^eronea, the cj with a more broadly 



smoky border of the wings : beneath somewhat darker, the forewings without any basal eye-spots, the series of 

 eye-spots on the hindwings clearer, fine black, white-ringed. Distributed in the Eocky Mountains. 



julla. L. fulla Edic. (= fuliginosa Streck. nee Edw.) (144 a, b) is smaller than the preceding, the rj above 



of a purer blue; the under surface is light grey with rows of very similar, white-ringed eye-spots, like lycea, 

 but the postdiscal row is less curved; at the cell-end of the hindwing there is a white spot. Pacific States, 



