LYCA3NA II. 
LYCiENA PSEUDAKGIOLUS. 1—3. 
Lycse.no, Pseudargiolus, Boisduval, Bois. & Lee. Lep. des Amer. p. 118, text, not plate. Ed- 
wards, Proc. Am . Ent. Soc. 1866. Argiolus, Abbot & Smith, Ins. Greo. pi. 15. Neglecta , Harris, Ins. 
Mass. 2nd. edition, page 274, text, not plate. 
Male. Expands 1.4 inch. 
Upper side delicate pale blue with a pink tinge ; costa of primaries silvery ; 
hind margins edged by a black line which sometimes is expanded upon the apical 
part of primaries into a border ; fringes black and white on primaries, white on 
secondaries. 
Under side white, sometimes pure, but oftener with a greyish tinge ; the spots 
and markings pale black or brown, often nearly or quite wanting ; when distinct, 
primaries have a discal streak, a transverse row of six spots, mostly elongated, the 
third, fourth and fifth turned obliquely, the sixth frequently wanting ; a marginal 
row of dots each preceded by a serrated tooth. 
Secondaries have three dots in a transverse row near the base ; a discal streak; 
a row of eight minute spots across the disk, the two next costa much in advance of 
the others, the next four and the eighth nearly parallel to the margin, the seventh 
back of the line ; the margin bordered by a row of black points, each preceded by 
a serrated tooth as on primaries. 
Body above blue, below white ; palpi black above, white below, tipped with 
white ; antennae black, ringed with white ; club black tipped with ferruginous. 
Female. Same size. 
The apical half of costal margin and the whole of hind margin of primaries 
and costal of secondaries broadly, and basal half of primaries narrowly, edged with 
black ; the rest of primaries violet-blue, (sometimes lilac or green) except a large 
whitish patch on the disk ; secondaries a duller blue, not metallic ; the hind mar- 
gin edged by. a row of small, rounded, blackish spots. Under side purer white 
* than the average of males. Fringes as in the male. 
Larva unknown except as given in the plates of Abbot and Smith and in 
Boisduval and Leconte. The description accompanying the latter is as follows ; 
“Head black ; body green, pubescent ; back yellowish ; a dorsal red stripe, inter- 
rupted, cut transversely near the middle by a red arc which is concave posteriorly ; 
sides with oblique stripes of darker shade than the ground color ; above the legs a 
stripe of obscure green.” 
