LYCiENA II. 
Under side pure white with a bluish tint ; primaries have a fuscous discal streak 
and a transverse row of six fuscous, abbreviated streaks set obliquely ; secondaries 
have a discal streak, three points near base and eight points or streaks crossing the 
disk in a tortuous line ; both wings bordered by confluent fuscous spots, which form 
a crenated band, each spot enclosing a darker point. 
Female. Same size. 
Upper sides of both wings of a deeper and more metallic blue ; primaries have 
a broad fuscous hind margin, and this color extends more narrowly along costal 
margin to base, where it is sprinkled with blue scales ; a faint discal streak ; hind 
margin of secondaries bordered by a row of small fuscous spots. Under side as in 
the male. 
Larva, according to Mr. Saunders “found feeding on Dogwood, 12th July. 
Fed it afterwards on Willow, which it readily ate. Length .45, somewhat onisci- 
form, distinctly annulated. Head small, dark shining brown with a black streak 
down the middle, mandibles brown with a transverse streak of paler color above. 
Body dull greenish white with a faint tinge of yellow ; the second segment of a 
deeper shade of green, with a blackish line across its posterior edge ; a brown dor- 
sal line ; a dull green band across anterior portion of fifth segment and another in 
same position on eleventh ; on each side of each segment, from fifth to eleventh, a 
spot of same hue extending obliquely backward. Entire upper surface covered 
with minute dots from which arise short, fine hairs.” 
Found in the Northern States from New England to Wisconsin; in Canada 
and in British America as far north as Lake Winnipeg ; occasional in W. Virginia. 
This species replaces Pseudargiolus in the North and has usually been regard- 
ed as the species so named. It differs however in size, in shade of color and in the 
delicacy of markings on under surface. 
The existence of two distinct species confounded under the name Pseudargio- 
lus was suspected by Mr. Edward Doubleday as long ago as 1841, as appears from 
remarks by him in the “Entomologist” of that year, page 209. 
Neglecta is by no means a common species. So far as my own experience goes 
in the Northern States I have seldom seen more than two or three individuals up- 
on a June day. At certain spots in the Catskills, especially near the “Fawns Leap” 
in the Clove south of the Mountain House, a few may always be seen at that season 
flying about the wet spots by the road side. ' But in June 1866, in the. vicinity of 
Coalburgh, W. Va., Neglecta appeared in large numbers, while I scarcely saw a doz- 
en Pseudargiolus , usually so abundant. In the following years to the present 
(1869), Neglecta has again been rare in this district. 
