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LYCAENA. 
“ Male. — Expands 1.4 Inch. Upper side pruinose blue with a metallic lustre, somewhat obscured by fuscous on secondaries ; hind 
margin of primaries largely bordered by fuscous, of secondaries narrowly ; fringes of primaries white, black at end of nervules, of sec- 
ondaries white. Under side grey brown mottled with calcareous white; primaries have a sub-marginal series of brown lunules, not dis- 
tinct apically ; a median row of large round black spots, the first four from costa forming an arch, the fifth much anterior to fourth and 
widely separated from it ; the sixth duplex ; all edged with white ; on the arc a sub-reniform black spot and one nearly similar in cell. 
Secondaries have a sub-marginal series of brown lunules ; a median sinuous row of round black spots, less conspicuous than those of pri- 
maries, except the first, fourth and last ; the second, fifth, sixth and seventh half the size of the first; on arc an indistinct bent streak ; a 
small black spot in cell, a large one on costa and a third below cell ; fringes beneath on both wings out by brown. Body above blue, 
beneath thorax blue grey ; legs black and white ; palpi white, black at tip and on upper side ; antennae annnlated black and white ; club 
black, tip fulvous. From collection H. Edwards. Taken in the Sierra Nevada, Cal.” 
Sjepiolus, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 297, (1852). Edwards , Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 
Polyommatus Scepiolus, Morris, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 12, (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 88, (1862). 
Cupido Sapiolus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 373, (1871). 
Expands 1^ inch. Male, above, greenish blue not very lustrous; a diseal mark on primaries; blackish 
borders at exterior margins, broadest on primaries; fringe white. Female dark brown. Under surface in 
both sexes grey with discal, mesial and sub-marginal spots as in allied species. California, not scarce. 
*tLoRQUiNi, Beltr, Proe. Cal. Acad. Nat* Sc., Yol. Ill, p. 280, (1867). Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 
Cupido Eorquini, Kirby , Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 377, (1871). 
, “ California.” I do not know this species ; the name, at any rate, must give way, as Dr. Herrich -Schaeffer 
has already employee it in 1850 for a Mediterranean species.*) 
*tD3®ALUS, Behr, Proe. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc., Yol. Ill, p. 280, (1867). Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 36, (1872). 
Cupido Dcedalus, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 366, (1871). 
“ California.” Unknown to me. 
(PL. X, F. 17, d\) 
Gorgon, Boisduval, ( Polyommatus G .) Ann. Soc. Lnt. Fr., p. 292, (1852). Morris, Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 12, 
(1860) ; Syn. Lep. X. Am., p. 86, (1862). 
Lycama Gorgon, Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 343, (1871). 
C hrysophanus Gorgon, Edwards, Svn. X. Am. Butt., p. 33, (1872). 
One of the largest N. American species ; I have not yet seen the female, but Boisduval says: “ Upper 
side of female dull brown, spotted with fulvous, as in the allied species but of a paler tint.” California, rare. 
Epixanthe, Boisduval <fe Leconte, ( Polyommatus E.) Lep. Am. Sept., p. 127, t. 38, (1833). Morris, Cat. Lep. 
N. Am., p. 12, (1860) ; Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 85, (1862). Moschler, Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 114, 
(1870). Staudinger, Cat. Eur. Lep., p. 8, (1871). 
Irymna Epixanthe, Harris, Ins. Inj. Yeg., Flint’s Ed., p. 274, (1862). Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., 
p. 343, (1871). 
Chrysophanus Epixanthe, Edwards, Syn. X. Am. Lep., p. 32, (1872). 
9 Lyccena Boreas, Kirby, Faun. Bor. Am., Yol. IY, p. 299, t. 4, (1837). W. F. Kirby, Cat. Diurnal 
Lep., p. 343, (1871). 
Polyommatus Dorcas, Morris, Cat. Lep. X. Am., p. 12, (1860); Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 90, (1862). 
Chrysophanus Boreas, Edwards, Syn. N. Am. Butt., p. 32, (1872). 
Size of Phlaeas. Male, upper surface primaries dark brown, glossed with purple on discs, edge of costa 
orange; a black discal spot, another within the cell, and sometimes a third one between this latter and the in- 
terior margin. Secondaries, a black discal mark, midway between this and the exterior margin are two small 
spots; a small orange spot at anal angle continued in one or two more or less dimly defined lunules; fringe 
smoky. Female more of a reddish cast on the discs, no purple reflections ; in addition to the spots of the male 
there is on the primaries an irregular mesial row of nearly confluent black spots; secondaries also with mesial 
row of like spots ; fringes white. Under surface both sexes yellowish, spots on primaries arranged as above 
with the addition of a row of sub-marginal spots, the three nearest inner angle distinct, the others scarcely dis- 
cernable. Secondaries have the spots of upper surface represented by mere black points or dots, a connected 
row of orange sub marginal lunules, the four nearest the anal angle brightest. Labrador, Canada, New Eng- 
land States and New York. Kirby’s figure of Dorcas agrees exactly with Epixanthe 9, and the wonder is 
that their identity was not long ago discovered. I give below the short description of Dorcas that commences 
Kirby’s article ; this is followed in the Fauna Am. Bor. by another, much longer, but in part more obscure 
diagnosis, which want of space will not allow of insertion here: 
“ Dorcas Lyccena, wings above brown-ferruginous dotted and spotted with black ; beneath tawney ; primaries with black spots and 
crescents; secondaries obsoletelv dotted with black; marked at apex with obsolete orange crescents. Expansion of wings 1 inch. Taken 
in Lat. 54°.” 
*)Lycaena Lorquinii, Herr.-Fch., Schmett. Eur. I, f. 442-444, (1850); VI, p. 25, (1852). 
