306 LYCAENA. Bij Dr. A. Seitz. 



head and rosy-red pyriform dorsal spots divided by a purple dorsal line and accompanied laterally by white dots; 

 stigmata white. In April and again in July, on Thymus, particularly at the flowers; im captivity it often 

 attacks other caterpillars. Pupa roundish, obtuse, smooth, clay-yellow, with darker wing-cases; on the ground. 

 The butterfhes are on the wing in May and again in August and September, frequenting very sunny 

 grassy hills and slopes, clearings in woods and broad sunny roads. They fly usually very short distances 

 and settle on grasses and the tops of herbage with the wings half open and widely separated. The 

 flight is slow, somewhat hopping, and the butterflies are not shy. While they occur more singly in 

 Central Europe, they are extremely frequent in South Europe and North Africa, where they often fly in 

 great abundance. In the extreme east of the area of distribution, in Kashmir, they are local, but very 

 common (Butlee). 



orion. L. orion Pall. (= sedi F.. telephii Esp., battus Hbn.) (79 e). Above and beneath rather similar to the 



preceding, but larger and darker, recognizable by the fringes being very distinctly spotted and the white underside 

 abundantly and heavily spotted with black , the hindwing beneath bearing a bright orange-red submarginal 

 band. Throughout Europe, West and North Asia, excepting England, the arctic countries and Japan; 



nigra, from Finland to the Mediterranean Islands and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. — ab. nigra Gerh. (79 e, 

 erroneouslj- named nigricans) occurs everywhere among ordinary specimens and is the prevalent form in 

 some districts, e. g. in the Valais; differs in the uniformly dark upperside, on which only the discocellular 

 ornaia. spot is visible — ab. ornata Stgr. (79 e, ornatus) is very blue above, such specimens being found singly 

 orithyia. in Europe and as a regular spring-form in East Asia. — orithyia Gr.-Grsh. are specimens from the Sinin 

 Mts. in North Tibet, which form a transition to ornata. the light blue marginal rings characteristic of 

 ornata being entirely or nearly absent. — Egg flattened, white. Larva light green with black head and 

 black spiracles; the first ring, a lateral stripe, the dorsal line and a row of spots on each side of the 

 dorsal line carmine; in the autumn and in the south again in June, on species of Sedum; often guard- 

 ed by ants. Pupa dirty yellow, greenish at the wing-cases, fastened either on the ground or above it on 

 plants, sometimes a number together. The butterflies in the early spring (emerging in a warm room 

 already in February according to Tumma), and in the south again in August, very local, being absent 

 from large districts, but generally not rare, particularly on chalk in stony places. In China, Corea and 

 Amurland the species is much more generally distributed than in Europe, but always confined to the 

 (rocky) localities of the food-plant. 



bavius. L. bavius Ev. (79 e). Beneath almost as in orion. but the underside distinctly pale violet-grey. 



Above the ^ is blue with weakly red anal spots on the hindwing, the $ dark brown, with red submarginal 

 futma. band, which is bright on the hindwing. In South Russia, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, and Syria. — fatma 

 Ohrrth. (79 f), from the Aures Mts. near Batna in Algeria, is above paler violet-blue and has a more 

 distinct yellowish red band on the hindwing. Transitions to this form are said to occur in the Lebanon 

 and in Syria. — This species appears likewise to be very local and is called ,,rare" in many places. The 

 different dates of capture (April, June) point to two broods. 



lanlji. L. lanty Oherih. (= lantyi Stgr.-Reh.) (79 f). This is the palest form of this group; recognizable by 



the bright sky-blue upperside and the more sparsely spotted apical area of the forewing beneath. — 

 In West China and Tibet, common at Ta-tsien-lu, rarer at Wa-ssu-kow. at 5000 — 6000 ft., in IVlay and June. 



divinti. L. divina Fixs. This largest species of the present group is above almost spotted like orio/; ; the underside 



is more sparsely spotted than in orion, but the spots of the forewing beneath are so heavy 

 that they are almost united into a band. — Corea, in June. 



moorei. L. moorei Leech (79 f). Above black-brown in botVi sexes, the fringes not distinctly spotted, being 



interrupted only beneath by the dark veins. The underside strongly spotted, so that the discal spots of 

 the hindwing appear as dark dots on the upperside. In this as well as the absence of tails the species 

 differs from Everes fischeri, which has a somewhat similar facies. — In Central China (e. g. at Chang- 

 Yang not rare), in June and July. 

 cyune. L. cyane Ev. Just as the preceding species recalls Everes fischeri, so the present one resembles 



Ev. argiades, the ^ having above almost the same delicate violet-blue colour as the latter, the forewing being 

 somewhat whitish before the outer margin. The $ is likewise whitish before the margin, but the upperside 

 is otherwise dark brown, with the base dusted with white. Underside nearly as in orion, or still more 

 similar to that of a large baton, abundantly spotted in the J on a bluish white ground and in the $ on a yellowish 

 white ground, the hindwing bearing a reddish yellow submarginal band; the base of the wings always 

 deserlicola. distinctlj- dusted with blue-green. South Russia and South Siberia to the Altai. — deserticola Elw. is a 

 desert-form from the lower districts of the Altai; only half the size, the dark spots of the underside with 

 pale borders. — ■ The butterflies have a fast flight and settle particularly on tall flowering plants, keeping 

 the wings closed (Christoph). In spring. 

 miris. L. miris Stgr. (79 f). Above both sexes black-brown, the 9 with a red submarginal band on both wings, 



which is only occasionally obsolescent on the forewing, the underside, which otherwise recalls orion, has this 



