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LYCVENA. 
*tIsoLA, Reakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., p. 332, (1866). Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 35, (1872). 
Cupido Lsola, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 376, ( 1871 ). 
This is another species with which I am entirely unacquainted, the types from which it wa 3 described 
were from Mexico. Mr. W. H. Edwards in his synopsis says also, Waco, Texas. I append Mr. Reakirt’s 
description. 
“ Upper surface brownish black, glossed with violet blue; a black terminal line, broadest at the apex of the fore wings, thence 
diminishing to the anal angle ; a small rounded, submarginal black spot near the latter; fringe white. Underneath dark ash grey; 
primaries with two submarginal, slightly waved whitish lines; interior to these a row of six large rounded black spots, all ringed with 
white; two white streaks at the end of the cell. Secondaries with a submarginal row of indistinct brown spots, of which the three 
nearest the anal angle are black, the first and third irrorated with metallic golden-green atoms, and the third surmounted by yellowish 
lunule; all the others are preceded by whitish crescents; above these there is a suffused white belt, and still farther, two double rows of 
waved and crenulated whitish lines ; a small sub-costal black ocellus near the base. A narrow terminal black line edges the outer 
margin of the four wings; fringe ashy white. Expanse .88 inch. Antennae black ringed with white. Hab., Mexico (near Vera Cruz).” 
*t GtYAS, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., A T ol. Ill, p. 210, (1871); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 35, (1872). 
Another species of doubtful validity, the description says : 
u Male— Expands .95 inch. Upper side pale violet blue, immaculate except a fuscous point near anal angle. Under side pale 
brown with a wash of whitish; primaries have a faint, discal bar, and a straight row of spots across the wing, the second and fourth back 
of the line; all edged with white; on margin traces of luntiles. Secondaries have a similar discal bar and a median row of spots; a 
small round fuscous spot in cell, two others on costa, one near middle the other near base ; a faint row of spots on hind margin, of 
which the two next anal angle are distinct, blackish. From Arizona, taken by Dr. Palmer, and in the collection of the Agricultural 
Department.” 
LygdamuS; Doubleday, ( Polyommatus L .) Entomologist, p. 209, (1842). 
Lyccena Lygdamus, Edwards, Butt. N. Am., t. 1, Lyc., (1868) ; Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 
Cupido Lygdamus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 368, (1871). 
Male expands 1^ to 1J inches, upper side is beautiful silvery blue with narrow black margins exteriorly, 
and greyish fringes. Female smaller, not so bright, and the outer half of wings much suffused with grey. 
Both sexes, beneath, grey with black discal bars and sub-marginal rows of large, black spots, two spots near 
base of secondaries, one near base of primaries, all spots encircled with white. Southern United States — rare. 
(PL. X, F. 10 tf, 11 ? .) 
Pembina, Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phil., p. 224, (1862); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 
Thccla Pembina, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 401, (1871). 
Glaucopsyche Couperi, Grote, Bull. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sc., Vol. I., p. 185, (1874). 
Allied to Lygdamus which it resembles very closely, especially on the upper surface ; I have made full 
comparisons between the species on p. 69 of this work. Labrador, British Columbia, Oregon. 
Since Mr. W. H. Edwards described this species, it very nearly had the misfortune of losing its birth- 
right : the author having through accident lost his types; and what was equally unfortunate, his memory even 
when aided by the lengthy original description would not allow him to identify with any certainty, examples 
' that were subsequently submitted to him. This was rather placing the species in a forlorn position, but at this 
juncture the great Species-mill gave a revolution or two or three and the Lycama was transmogrified into 
Glaucopsyche, a new specific name was of course added, and the whole fabrication attached to the trade mark 
of the mill, which latter was of course understood to make the insect immortal, but alas ! “ All glory but daz- 
zles and dies ” and so was it with “ Glaucopsyche Couperi Grote,” for “ Like the swift shadows of noon, like 
the dreams ot the blind it vanished away as the dust in the wind,” and in its place stands the Prodigal Pem- 
bina, tired of the husks and returned to its first honourable estate and title. 
Antiacis, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 300, (1852). Edtvards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 
Polyommatus Antiacis, Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 12, (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 90, (1862). 
Cupido Antiacis, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 371, (1871). 
Not quite as large as the two preceding. Male violet blue on upper side with white fringe. Female 
brownish grey, a little blueish towards base — under surface in both sexes coloured and marked much as in 
Lygdamus. California. 
Behrii, Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phil., p. 224, (1862); Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 37, (1872). 
Thecla Behrii, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 400, (1871).*) 
Lycama Polyphemus, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., 49, (1869). 
Cupido Polyphemus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 373, (1871). 
Another species closely allied to Lygdamus and Pembina, but is generally a little larger than either of 
them; the blue in the male is more violaceous and less lustrous, and the female on upper side is, with the 
*) In Kirby’s Catalogue there are two species confounded under one name on p. 400, thus “ 337, T. Behrii, Edw., Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Se.,_ Phil., 1862 ;” and “ Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 187 0, p. 18,” the first citation refers to the above Lycama, and the second is Thecla Behrii, an 
entirely different thing, though it was rather ill advised in Mr. Edwards to designate species by the same name that are in groups so 
closely connected as the Lyc;cna and Thecla. 
