Cyaniris were originally intended to include all the Blues, 

 and sometniies all the LyccetiidcE^ or even the Hesperiidcc as 

 well. 



The European species belonging to this group of Butterflies 

 are always of a blue or brown colour, generally with numerous 

 dark spots beneath, surrounded with paler colour. They are 

 distinguished from the Butterflies allied to Thecia by the sub- 

 costal nervure of the fore-wings being four-branched, and from 

 the genera allied to Lyccena^ by the presence of the upper 

 disco-cellular nervule in the fore-wings. 



GENUS LAMPIDES. 



Lampides^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p 70 (18 16). 

 Folyom?natus, Y>{. Latreille, Hist. Nat Crust. Ins. xiv p. 116 

 (1805). 



The comparatively large size, tailed hind-wings, and streaked 

 under side of the only British species of this genus, will pre- 

 vent its being mistaken for any other " Blue." 



The name Lai7ipides has been sufficiently often applied to 

 L. hcetiais to warrant this species being regarded as the type. 

 Several recent authors have treated Z. bccticus as the type of 

 Folyommatus Latr., but I consider that Latreille indicated 

 F corydon as the type of Folyommatus by figuring it ; and more- 

 over the name Folyommatus is wholly inapplicable to L. bccticus. 



THE LARGE TAILED BLUE. LAMPIDES E.ETICUS. 

 {Plaie XLV. Figs, 1-3.) 

 Fdpilio hcEticus^ Linnceus, Syst Nat. i, (2) p. 789, no. 226 

 (1767); Espcr, Schmett. i, (r) p. 319, pi. 27. figs, yi, b 

 (1777) ; i. (2) p. 181, pi. 91, fig. 3 (1784) ; Hiibner, Eur. 

 Schmett. i. figs. 373-375 (1803)- 

 FoIyommMfus bcBtica, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix, p. 653, no. 122 



^ (1823). 

 Lamp ides biSticus, Newman, Brit. Butterflies, p. 117 (1881). 



