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.