LYCiENA 1. 
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Secondaries have a small black spot within the cell, another on costal margin, 
a narrow stripe in the disk, and a sinuous row of spots within the margin similar to 
those of primaries, all edged with white. 
Body above fuscous covered with blue hairs ; abdomen beneath white ; palpi 
white at base, fuscous at extremity ; antennae black annulated with white ; club 
black, white near tip, which itself is black. 
Female. Same size. 
Upper side sometimes entirely blue except along the margins which are fus- 
cous ; the blue deeper colored and less dense than in the male ; sometimes the greater 
part of the surface is fuscous, the blue shade being confined to the base of the wings ; 
under side paler, but marked as in the male. 
Found in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and through the Southern States to 
Georgia. Doubleday gives its habitat in the pine forests, but in West Virginia, 
I have usually found it in the garden or about houses. It appears there early 
in April, a few days after violacea , but is rare, not more than half a dozen being 
seen in a season. 
