CHRYSOPHANUS I. 
CHRYSOPHANUS SIRIUS, 8—10. 
Chrysophanus Sirius, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1871, p. 270. 
Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. 
Upper side brilliant copper-red, deepest on costal margin of primaries and on 
both hind margins and all the nervures, the interspaces having a brown shade 
when viewed directly, but fiery-red otherwise ; on the hind margin of secondaries 
the deep red border is broken into spots towards anal angle, these spots inclosing 
black lunules that are produced by the expansion of the black line that edges 
both margins; discal spot of primaries a straight fuscous bai ; a fuscous point in 
cell; discal mark of secondaries a streak, and three or four points beyond cell; 
fringes gray-white. 
Under side of primaries buff with a red tint, of secondaries buff; primaries 
have a sub-marginal row of rounded fuscous spots, obsolete apically; a bent io\\ 
across the disk, rounded, nearly equal; a bar on arc, a spot and point in cell and 
a spot below cell on sub-median interspace; secondaries have a tortuous row of 
points or minute spots, and three points nearer base forming a line across the 
wing. 
Body above fuscous, beneath pale buff; legs buff; palpi same; antenme an- 
nulated black and white ; club fuscous, tip ferruginous. 
Female. — Same size. 
Upper side fuscous, the disk of primaries pale fulvous, more or less obscured by 
fuscous, of secondaries still darker ; all the spots of under side are discovered 
through the wing, those of secondaries much enlarged; within the fuscous mar¬ 
ginal border of primaries a deep fulvous stripe which curves around inner angle ; 
secondaries have a marginal band of fulvous serrations, within each of which is a 
fuscous spot. 
The female of this species bears a striking resemblance to the female of Lycoena 
Heteroneci, as may be seen by referring to our Plate of the latter. 
The genus Chrysophanus (Polyommatus of Boisduval) embraces many beautiful 
