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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
Iii tlie early spring form, probably most numerous throughout the 
country, the upper side of the male (Fig. 1) is a rich satiny or azure 
Lycasna pseud argiolus. 
Fig. 1. Male. 
blue, deepest near the base of all four wings. The upper wings are 
margined outwardly with a narrow shading of blackish, widest and 
heaviest at the apex of the wing. The lower wings are edged on 
their outer margin with a narrow, dark line. Both pairs of wings 
are fringed with gray, darker toward the apex of the upper wings, 
and interrupted on both wings with black dots. The body is 
black. Insects with these colors above have at least three varieties 
Lycsena pseudargiolus. Under side. 
Fig. 2. Male. 
where the colors beneath differ. Fig. 2 is light gray beneath, having 
a row of light brown dots along the outer margin of all four wings 
enclosed on the inner side with a scalloped line of the same color. 
An irregular row of dark brown spots cross the upper wings near 
their outer margin, the remainder being plain gray, slightly darker 
along the upper margin. A number of black spots are scattered over 
the lower wings. The thorax is light gray, the abdomen nearly 
white. In Fig. 3 the under side is bluish-gray, darker than Fig. 2. 
