LYCiENID.T:. — LYC.T.N A. 79 



Genus XVII.— Lyc.i:na, Fahrkius. 



Pa/jii longer than the head, somewhat divergent at the tips, three-jointed, the 

 two first clothed with scales and hair, the terminal with scales only, and 

 attenuated ; the basal joint bent, the second very long, slightly curved at the 

 base: anfcn/iw with an abrupt obtuse club: cj/cs naked: /,'frs alike in ])oth 

 sexes: anterior scarcely shorter than the rest: all furnished with small simple 

 claws projecting beyond the fooUcushions, which are rather large: winn;s 

 nearly entire ; posterior denticulated at the anal angle. 



The indigenous Lyesense are known by the brilliant coppery tints 

 which adorn the greater portion of the disc of the upper surface of 

 the wings : they are at once discriminated from the Thecl» by tlieir 

 naked eyes, and by the want of the tail-like appendages to their 

 posterior wings ; and from the Polyommati by the form of the club 

 of the antennae, the more evidently denticulated posterior wings, 

 and the superior size of the pulvilli or foot-cushions. They usually 

 frequent marshy places, and their larvae feed upon docks and herbs, 

 but not on trees or shrubs. Ly. Phlseas differs a little from the 

 other species in structure, in the sexes being similar, and in breeding 

 several times in the year. 



Sp. 1. Phla^as. Alis anticis igneo-cupreis nigro-maciilatis, posticis nigris fusci i 

 murginali cupre(\, suhtus cincrascentilms striga jwsticd fulvti. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. — 1 unc. 5 lin.) 



Pa. Phlffius. Liniu':. — Lewin. pi. 41. — Ly. Phlicas. Steph. Catal. 



Anterior wings above brilliant fiery copper-colour, with the posterior margin 

 and eight discoidal spots black ; the two basal ones placed longitudinally, Uie 

 rest transversely, fonning an irregular zigzag band near the hinder margin ; 

 the costa is rather dusky : the posterior wings above brownish-black, with a 

 copper band on the hinder margin, which is more or less denticulated exter- 

 nally, and a black line and some dots on the disc : beneath, the anterior wings 

 somewhat resemble the upper surface, but the colour is paler and not glossy, 

 and there arc ten distinct black spots on the disc, of which throe are placed 

 longitudinally, the rest transversely, as above ; the hinder margin is ilrab- 

 colour, with three or more black crescents internally ; the posterior wings arc 

 drab-coloured, tinged with copper, sprinkled with numerous obsolete blackish 

 dots, and marked on the hinder margin with an ol)scure tawny band : die 

 cilia are black at the base, and rose-coloured at the tip: the body is black, 

 with fulvescent hairs above, drab-coloured beneath ; the antenntc are black 

 annulated with white. — The female rcscm])lcs the male. 



Var. 0. The anterior wings above of a deep dusky copper, with very large, 

 nearly confluent, spots; the posterior wings with a very narrow waved band. 



Var. y. The anterior wings above pale rufous-copper, with the spots very 

 small, and several of the iimcr ones obliterated. 



