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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Fig. 104. 
dered with dusky brown ; hind wings with a few small black 
spots on the middle, and a broad cop- 
peiy-red band on the hind margin. 
The wings expand from TyV to 
inch. This butterfly is found thro^gb^vjv.- 
out the summer fluttering on’ the 
grass and other low plants. • The 
catei’pillar is long, oval, and slightly convex above, and of 
a greenish color ; it probably lives, like the Phlceas^ on the 
leaves of dock and sorrel. The chiysalis, which is usually 
suspended under a stone, is light yellowish-brown, and spot¬ 
ted with black dots. 
The Epixanthe butterfly, Lyccena Epixantlie (Boisduval), 
resembles the preceding in form and size, but is of a dusky 
brown color above, with a few black spots on the middle of 
the wings, and a narrow, wavy band, or a few contiguous 
spots of an orange color on the hinder margin of the pos¬ 
terior wings. This species is rather rare. The wings in 
both these butterflies are entire, or not notched or tailed, and 
the knobs of their antennae are short, thick, and nearly oval. 
There are others with the hind wings also entire and 
rounded, but the knobs of the antennae are longer and not 
near so thick, and their caterpillars are shorter and very 
convex above. These characters exist in the beautiful 
azure-blue butterfly, Polyommatm Pseudargiolus (Boisd.), 
(Fig. 105, male. Fig. 108, var. profile,) which measures 
Fig. 105. 
Fig. 106. 
from lyV to 14 inch 
across the winors. These 
O 
in the male are light 
blue on the upper side, 
with the lustre of satin ; 
the fore wings of the 
female have a broad blackish outer margin, and on that of 
the hind wings is a row of small blackish spots ; all the 
wings on the under side are pearl-gray, with little blackish 
spots ; the fringes of the wings are white. 
