GENUS LYCy^NA 22S 



378. Lycaena Shasta. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 378, b, c. 



Fig. 378, Male, Lake Tahoe Basin, July 12, 1891 ; Author. 



b. Female, Lake County, Cal., July, 1894 ; Author. 



c, Female, underside, Mt. Shasta, Cal., 1892 ; 



Author. 

 Larger than the preceding, and the female has much less orange 

 on the margin of hind wing. A wide-spread, mountain butterfly, 

 found from Central California to Oregon and Washington. 



379. Lycaena Melissa. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 379, b, c. 



Fig. 379, Male, Greenhorn Mountains, 7,000 feet altitude, 

 July, 1888 ; Author. 



b. Female, San Bernardino Valley, 1895 ; Author. 



c, Female, underside, Mojave Desert, 3,000 feet 



altitude, Aug. 12, 1887; Author. 



This well-known and handsome species is wide-spread, flying 

 in valleys, on mountains, and in deserts, wherever it pleases to 

 go. The species ranges from Arizona to British America, and 

 from California to the Rocky Mountains. 



The larval food-plant is Hosackia, and doubtless other legu-< 

 minous plants. 



380. Lycaena Acmon. 



Plate XXIX ; Figures 380, b, c. 



Fig. 380, Male, San Bernardino Valley, 1890; Author. 



b, Female, Spokane, Wash., May, 1892 ; Author. 



c, Female, underside, no data. 



Acmon is a universal species, and ranges over the whole coun- 

 try. The food-plant is Hosackia. Probably other leguminous 

 plants, as well. The female Acmon is liable to variations, in differ- 

 ent localities. 



381. Lycaena Chlorina. Not elsewhere figured. 



Plate XXIX ; Figure 381, Female, Tehachapi ( ?), i89o( ?), 

 Author. 

 Chlorina was described in 1892, from apparently one female, 

 the sex being noted, but nothing whatever is said about the male, 

 wherefore we must conclude that at that time the male was un- 

 known. In March, 1905, before this book was published, I sub- 



