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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.