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LEPIDOPTERA. 
dered with dusky brown ; hind wings with a few small black 
spots on the middle, and a broad cop- 
pery-red band on the hind margin. 
The wings expand from 1-jV to 1' 
inch. This butterfly is found through- 
out the summer fluttering on the 
grass and other low plants. The 
Fig. 104. 
caterpillar 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 chrysalis, which is usually 
suspended under a stone, is light yellowish-brown, and spot- 
ted with black dots. 
The Epixanthe butterfly, Lyccena Epixcintlie (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, Polyommatus Pseudargiolus (Boisd.), 
(Fig. 105, male, Fig. 10G, var. profile,) which measures 
Fig. too. from ljjy to 1| inch 
across the wings. These 
|j§ P| in the male are light 
/ blue 011 ^ le upper side, 
with the lustre of satin; 
-v 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 ax’e white. 
