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female. The under side is sordid white, and the dots on hind wing 

 are scarcely visible. 



357. Lycaena Lycea. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 357, b. 



Fig. 357, Male, Colorado ; T. L. Mead. 



b. Female, underside; T. L. Mead. 

 Lycea is readily distinguished by the very large black spots 

 on under side of fore wing, all spots of both wings being heavily 

 irised with white. So far as I know, no example of Lycea was 

 ever taken in any Coast State, but it inhabits the States of the 

 Great Basin, from Arizona to Montana, and doubtless flies up to 

 the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and thus comes 

 well within our territory, and should be found along the eastern 

 base of the mountains to Eastern Oregon and Washington. 



358. Lycaena FuUa. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 358, b, c. 



Fig. 358, Male, Sierra N'evadas, 7,000 feet elevation, July, 

 1896; Author. 



b. Female, Sierra Nevadas, 7,000 feet elevation, 



July, 1896; Author. 



c, Female, underside, Sierra Nevadas, 7,000 feet 



elevation, July, 1896; Author. 

 Fulla is a rare mountain butterfly from the high Sierras of 

 California. The male is dusky, thinly glossed over with blue, 

 and the female is still more thinly glossed over ; the under side of 

 both wings is chalky-white, with large black dots on the fore 

 wings, but it would be impossible for a trained eye to confuse this 

 with the preceding. 



359. Lycaena Pheres. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 359, b, c. 



Fig. 359, Male, Coldstream, Vancouver Island, July 6, 

 1892; Author. 



b. Female, Coldstream, Vancouver Island, July 6, 



1892 ; Author. 



c. Female, underside, Coldstream, Vancouver Island, 



July 6, 1892; Author. 

 This is a northern butterfly, from near the Canada line ; I have 

 taken it at Spokane and on Vancouver Island, and it is said to fly 

 in many of the States of the Great Basin as far south as Colo- 



