The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaHolland, W. J. (William Jacob)
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The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob)
Butterflies -- North America
_Butterfly._--The wings on the upper side are purplish-blue,--pale in
the male, darker in the female,--bordered with dusky, more heavily in
the female than in the male. The fringes are white, checkered with dusky
at the ends of the veins. The female sometimes has the hind wings marked
on the upper side with red marginal spots on the inner half of the
border. On the under side the wings are pale bluish-gray, marked with a
profusion of small black spots, those on the outer margin arranged in
two parallel lines, between which, on the hind wings, are red spots.
Expanse, 1.00 inch.
_Early Stages._--Awaiting description.
_Enoptes_ ranges from Washington to Arizona.
(21) =Lycæna glaucon=, Edwards, Plate XXX, Fig. 31, ♀, _under side_;
Fig. 39, ♂ (The Colorado Blue).
_Butterfly._--Purplish-blue, closely resembling the preceding species,
but having the black margin of the wings broader than in _L. enoptes_,
with the dark crescents of the marginal series on the under side showing
through as darker spots in the margins of the hind wings. The female has
a band of orange spots on the margins of the secondaries. The two
marginal rows of spots on the lower side of the wings are arranged and
colored as in the preceding species. Expanse, 1.00 inch.
_Early Stages._--Of these we must again confess ignorance.
_Glaucon_ ranges from Washington into California, and eastward to
Colorado, where it is quite common in the mountain valleys.
(22) =Lycæna battoides=, Behr, Plate XXXII, Fig. 11, ♂ (Behr's Blue).
_Butterfly._--On the upper side paler blue than the preceding species,
with the hind margin tinged with reddish, shining through from below,
and small crescentic dark spots. On the under side the wings are
smoky-gray, with all the black spots, which are arranged as in the
preceding species, greatly enlarged and quadrate, and a broad
submarginal border of orange on the hind wings. The female is like the
male, but with more orange on the upper side of the hind wings.
_Early Stages._--But little is, as yet, known of these.
The insect ranges from California and Arizona to Colorado.
(23) =Lycæna shasta=, Edwards, Plate XXXI, Fig. 23, ♂; Fig. 24, ♀ (The
Shasta Blue).
_Butterfly._--The figures in the plate give a fairly good idea of the
upper side of this species in both sexes, though the male is not quite
so dark a blue as represented. On the under side the wings have the
usual black spots, on a dirty-gray ground, and, in addition, on the hind
wings there are a number of small marginal spots surmounted by
metallic-colored bluish-green scales, somewhat like those found in some
species of the genus _Thecla_. Expanse, 1.00 inch.
_Early Stages._--So far as I know, these have never been described.
My specimens are all from Montana and Nevada. It is also reported from
northern California, Oregon, and Kansas, though I question the latter
locality.
(24) =Lycæna melissa=, Edwards, Plate XXXI, Fig. 25, ♂; Fig. 26, ♀
(The Orange-margined Blue).
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