224 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



pupate in rubbish on the ground. I have had several years' ex- 

 perience in breeding them. 



375. Lycaena Podarce. 



Plate XXIX; Figures 375, c. 



Fig. 375, Male, Emigrant Gap, July 22, 1892 ; Author. 



c. Female, underside, Pendleton, Oregon, July, 

 1890; Author. 

 Podarce is a mountain butterfly, found at 6,000 to 8,000 feet 

 elevation in the Sierras of Central California. It appears not to go 

 far north, but it goes east to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

 Podarce is a dusky damsel with wide dusky borders to both wings, 

 the disk being lightly blued. The hind wings show a marginal 

 series of lunules, each one surrounded with pale blue. The veins 

 are emphasized by a narrow line of dusky scales. On under side, 

 ashy-grayish, all spots small and indefinite, and placed angularly, 

 after the Piasus pattern. 



376. Lycaena Enoptes. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 376, b, c. 



Fig. 376, Male, San Bernardino Mountains, 3,000 feet al- 

 titude, June, 1890; Author. 



b, Female, Mt. Hood, Oregon, July 20, 1892 ; 



Author. 



c, Female, underside, Mt. Hood, Oregon, July 20, 



1892 ; Author. 



The male is blue with a violet luster ; no orange lunules on hind 

 wing. Female brownish, glossed on disk with blue, with five 

 round black spots and an inner row of orange lunules connected 

 in a band and only cut by the nervures. Beneath, both sexes 

 are grayish. 



Enoptes is a mountain flyer, and, as noted above, is wide-spread, 

 but always in the mountains, and never in the valleys. 



377. Lycaena Battoides. 



No figure. 

 Battoides is same size as Enoptes, blue, and has two black dots 

 at hind margin of hind wings, the dots supported inside by bright 

 orange, and with two tail-like projections ; the distinct colors and 

 the tails lend a sort of Thecla-like aspect to the butterfly. 



