VARIETIES OF KHOPALOCERA NEAR DOVER. 133 



but many with blotches of paler colour on the disc of the 

 wings. 



Polyommatus phlaas. — One with the coppery scaling broken 

 up by orange markings. One with copper band of hind wings 

 obsolete. One golden-hued. 



Lyccena cegon. — Three very pale specimens, the male almost 

 mauve in colour, the females light brown. One female with tips 

 of all the wings bleached ; pretty. Many females striated with 

 male colouring, and several gynandrous specimens. The male 

 (Bgon represented by pure deep blue, violet-blue, pure violet and 

 pure light blue examples ; of these we consider the violet-blue 

 our type. The Dover type has not the hind margin so broadly 

 dusky as the New Forest specimens. L. astrarche. — This, the 

 least given to vary of our British Lycsenidse, was represented by 

 two good underside examples. One with the discoidal spot alone 

 unobliterated upon the primaries and tliree spots only on the 

 hind wings. The other (a very prettily coloured specimen) 

 normal on the upper but without ocelli on the lower wings. L. 

 icarus. — One male with the whole disc minutely speckled with 

 black scales. One hermaphrodite. One large, very pale-coloured, 

 subdiaphanous male. Several with entirely smoky fringes to all 

 the wings. L. hellargus. — Several very blue examples, and some 

 of an intense blue. Two male and two female specimens 

 similar to the form captured by Mr. Sabine (Entom. xx. 40). 

 One extraordinary male with one-third of the wings nearest the 

 base of the natural colour, then shading off into sooty black. 

 Several males with one or all of the wings thickly irrorated with 

 black scales. Four males of a very abnormal colouring, pure 

 French grey in hue (the wings almost appear to have been 

 powdered over with slate-pencil dust), quite distinct from Mr. 

 Sabine's variety. It is probable that want of power has some- 

 thing to do with this, as three of the specimens show wings torn 

 in escaping from the chrysalis. One male with the marginal 

 orange luuules of the lower side indistinctly visible from above 

 also. One with hind margins of all wings shading off into dusky 

 white. Variety ceronus of the female, so common in the vernal 

 brood the preceding year at Dover, was not seen at all. L. 

 minimus. — Under sides without ocelli. L. corydon. — The blue 

 females of this species were also absent. Males went to opposite 

 extremes ; in some the fuscous border was very broad, forming a 



