Some years ago I proposed the generic name Glaucopsyche for a group of blue butterflies of eastern N. America having a glaucous sheen to the upper surface of their wings; I had not then recognized its strictly generic alliance with a group of similar forms in Europe and on our pacific slope, which do not all possess this peculiarity, and to which the older generic name Nomiades Hübn. must be applied. A recent study of their common structural features, however, shows that GlacoPsychw can no longer be retained.

Instead of “extreme tip hooked backwards,” as in the generic diagnosis, it would be better to say extreme tip curved outwards.

P. fuscostrigella. N. sp.