LYCAENA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 805 



recalling the flight of Ci/aniris argiol us, hnt is, \o^y. In the Bucovina the species has been obtained at the end 

 of June and in September, which however is no definite proof that there are two broods. 



L. panagaea H.-Schdff. (= endymion Frr.) (79 b). Above like a small akedo; (J blue with a very panagaea. 

 broad black margin; $ black-brown. At once recognized by the underside, on which the fourth spot of 

 the discal row of ocelli of the forewing, which stands before the upper median vein, is shifted towards 

 the outer margin, being entirely removed from the row. — Syria and Asia Minor, especially near Amasia, 

 also in Armenia, Persia and Turkestan, from June till August, in damp localities, not rare. 



L. cytis Christ. (79 b). Somewhat larger than the preceding species. Also here the fourth ocellus cytis. 

 of the discal row on the forewing beneath is removed from the row, but not so far as in fanagaea, remain- 

 ing at a considerable distance from the outer margin. The species is above all recognized by these ocelli 

 of the forewing appearing above as a group of small black spots. Persia, Pamir, Turkestan. — The form 

 panaegides Stgr. (= alaica Sigr.) (79 c) has only the discocellular spot distinctly visible above; the (J above panaegides. 

 less and more thinly blue and with a broader and more sharply defined black margin; Turkestan. In 

 July and August. 



L. iris Stgr. (79 b). As large as the preceding forms; both sexes black-brown above. Easily recog- iris. 

 nized by the underside, on which the discocellular spot of the forewing is surrounded by irregularly 

 arranged additional ocelh. The hindwing above bears small pale thin half-moons before the margin. — 

 Turkestan, from May until July. 



L. rutilans Stgr. (79 b). Similar to the preceding, smaller, recognizable by the coppery gloss on the rutilans. 

 disc, which is especially distinct in the ^, and by the very distinct discocellular spot on the forewing. 

 On the underside this spot forms with the discal ocelli on almost closed ring. — Ferghana, at a conside- 

 rable altitude, in June and July. 



L. anisophthalma Roll. (= arsacia Led.) (79 c). Upperside of both sexes brown with a shght golden "halma'l 

 gloss, the fringes white; the forewing with a small but distinct discocellular spot. Underside dirty grey- 

 brown, the ocelli of the forewing very large, united in one group, those of the hindwing usually much 

 smaller. — ■ In North Persia, end of May, June. 



L. triphysina Stgr. (79 d). Above hkewise black-brown in both sexes, at once recognized by the under- triphysina. 

 side, which Ijears the ocelh on a dark brown ground (as in the next species). This ground-colour has a 

 reddish tint in triphysina, wich is rather exaggerated in our figure. In the development of the pattern 

 of the underside the species bears a superficial resemblance to Thecla rhymnus. — Kashgar. 



L. anthracias Christ. (79 d). Similar to the preceding, but somewhat smaller, above hkewise dark anttiracius. 

 brown, the tip of the forewing however whitish, the fringes spotted. The likewise dark underside has a 

 grey tint, not a red one as in trifhi/sina. — Kirghiz steppe, Turkestan, in the spring, in places where 

 Alhagi kirghisorum grows. 



L. panope Ev. This Blue, which likewise occurs in the Kirghiz steppe south of the Ural, has several panope. 

 times been considered as a variety of the following species. The (J is dusted with dull blue above, otherwise 

 of a blackish colour, which shows only a few yellowish red, small and narrow, transverse lunules in the 

 anal angle of the hindwing. Underside brown-grey, darker in the ?, the ocelh of the forewing rather large, 

 the fringes spotted. 



L. baton Bgstr. (= amphion Esp., hylas Schiff.) (79 d). Upperside blackish, the c? more or less baton. 

 dusted with blue, the forewing with a distinct discocellular spot, the fringes spotted. Beneath numerous 

 ocelli on a leaden grey ground, larger on the forewing, the latter usually even with oceUi near the base, 

 the hindwing with red-yellow spots before the margin in typical specimens. Throughout Central and 

 South Europe, with the exception of England, occurring from Pommerania and the Baltic Provinces to 

 the Mediterranean, and from Belgium to Central Asia (Altai). — A form very similar to true fcaton, but beneath 

 without the reddish yeUow anal spots occurs singly everywhere among ordinary baton, being especially 

 plentiful in the south of Europe; this is ab. panoptes Hbn. (= argus minutus Esp.) (79 e). — A panopies. 

 similar form is found in Spain and North Africa, the reddish yellow submarginal band being absent from 

 the hindwing beneath, the underside of the hindwing purer in tint, more pale dust-grey, with the ocelli 

 distinct but very thin; the upperside very uniform in colour: abencerragus Pier. (79 d). — On the southern aben- 

 slopes of the Atlas, on very arid, almost desert-like slopes, I caught in the spring frequently a very small ""^ ''^^^' 

 dwarf-form which is hardly half the size of the common abencerragus of North Algeria, and which I call 

 famelica form. nov. (79 e). — In Anterior Asia the i^S ti^ve a brighter colour, which has often a silvery famelica. 

 white sheen; this is clara Christ. — vicrama Moore, from Afghanistan, has no distinct discocellular spot l[^^y'^'^^^ 

 on the upperside of the forewing, there being also no dark marginal dots on the hindwing above. — 

 cashmirensis Moore, form Kashmir, has a distinct black discocellular spot on the forewing like the European cashmi- 

 forms; on the upperside, moreover, the forewing bears whitish marginal lunules and dark veins and the hindwing 

 daj-k marginal dots. — Larva laterally strongly carinate, the segments somewhat swollen, light green with blackish 



