LYC^ENA I. 
LYOENA REGIA, 1-4. 
Lyccena Regia , Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. de Belg. XII., p. 46, 1868. 
Ibid. Lep. de la Cal. p. 46, 1869. 
Male. — Expands 1.1 inch. 
Upper side brilliant silvery blue; the hind margins edged by a black line ; 
primaries have a narrow black marginal border, rather broad at apex, macular in 
the discoidal and two upper median interspaces; an extra discal row of either 
four or five rounded black spots, three being in a bent transverse line half-way 
between the end of the cell and the hind margin, the others forming an oblique 
line with the lowest of the three, and placed upon the median interspaces; at 
the end of the cell a transverse black streak; near the margin, a little above 
inner angle, two small patches of orange, varying in size and distinctness in indi¬ 
viduals. Secondaries have two small black spots at the end of the cell, and some¬ 
times there are faint traces of a macular marginal band ; fringes long, alternately 
and equally white and fuscous on primaries, and on secondaries white, with a 
few fuscous hairs at the tip of each nervule. 
Under side of primaries brownish-gray, towards apex gray-white; of seconda¬ 
ries gray, either brown or white over the basal area, brown on the disk and gray 
next hind margin; the spots of upper side of primaries repeated, and, with the 
addition of a sixth spot on the sub-median interspaces, they form a row quite 
across the wing; a black streak at the end and a small spot in the middle of the 
cell; near the hind margin a transverse black line interrupted by the two orange 
spots, which re-appear and are somewhat enlarged and are confluent. Secondaries 
have an irregular series of eight black spots across the disk, the two on the dis¬ 
coidal interspaces being at some distance back of the line; at the end of the cell 
a streak and three spots near base. 
Body above blue, beneath brownish-gray; legs whitish; palpi white with 
black hairs at tip; antennae annulated with white and fuscous; club black, tipped 
with white. 
Female. — Same size. 
Upper side rather less silvery than in the male ; primaries have a broad and 
