204 LYCAENIDAL. POLYOMMATUS. 
spot on the outer margin of the hindwing just beyond the base of the tail, and two smaller spots 
interior to it. The underside is quite unique amongst the true “ blues, ” being furnished through- 
out the hindwing and largely on the forewing with short transverse brown lines margined 
with whitish, on the hindwing there is usually a conspicuous submarginal white or whitish 
band, and two black spots at the anal angle spangled with metallic silvery. The female is not 
frosted like the male, the upperside is fuscous, the base and disc of the wings metallic 
bluish, the hindwing with a marginal series of black spots anda discal macular pale band, 
f. beticus has an immense range in the old world, ard occurs in Australia ; in this respect it 
is only surpassed by Zveres argiades, Pallas, which is found in North America as well. 
767. Polyommatus beticus, Linneus. (Prater XXVII, Fic. 190 6). 
‘Papilio beticus, Lianzus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 789, n. 226 (1767) ; id., Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 
P. 522, n. 333 (1775) ; idem, id., Sp. Ins., vol. ii, p. 119, n. 529 (1781) ; idem, id., Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 69, n. 
657 (1787) ; id., Esper, Schmett., vol. i, pt. 1, pl. xxvii, figs. 3a, (1778) ; pt-2, pl. xci, fig. 3 (1784) ; id., 
Hiibner, Eur. Schmett., vol. i, figs. 373, 374, male 3 375, female (1798-1803) ; Polyommatus beticus, Godart, 
Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 653, n. 122 (1823); Lampides beticus, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M.,p. 165, n. 1 
(1869) ; id., Semper, Journ. Mus. Godef., vol. xiv, p. 158, n. 63 (1879) ; Lycena beticus, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent., 
vol. xix, p. 152, n. 45 (1876) ; Cupido beticus, Aurivillius, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Férh., vol. xxxvi, p. 44, n. #2 
(1879); id., Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent., vol. xx, p. 66 (1877) ; idem, id.,1 c, vol. xxi, p. 23, n. 90 (1878) ; id., 
Wollaston, Ann. and Mag, of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. iii, p. 223 (1879); Hesferia betica, Fabricius, Ent. 
Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 280, n. 77 (1793) ; Lycena betica, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. 1. C., p. 80, n. 14 (1828) ; id., 
Boisduval, Sp. Gén., vol. i, pl. vii, fig. 9, wale (1836) ; id., Miller, Ann. Soc. Linn., Lyons, 1861, p. 229, pl. iv, 
figs. 1-6 ; id., Guénee, Ann Soc. Ent. France, fourth series, vol. vii, p. 665, pl. xiii, figs. 9-12, Jive posterior 
segments of larva showing special organs (1867); id-, Lang, Butt. Eur., p. 99, n- 1, pl. xaii, figs. 2, male 
and female; pl. xxviii, fig. 5, pupa (1884); Lampides betica, Walker, Ent., vol. v, p. 52, n. 2 (1870) ; ide 
Newman, Britt. Butt., p. 117, fig. 39 (1874) ; Lycenabetica, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., vol. ii, p. 236, n. 138 3 
also p. 342 (1866); id., Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 8873; id., Trimen, South Afr.-Butt, vol. 
ii, p. 58, m. 147 (1887); id., Pryer, Rhop. Nihonica, p. 17, n. 50, pl. iv, fig. 22, male (1888); Cupido 
beticus, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 354, n- 114 (1871) ; Lampides beticus, Butler, Trans Linn. Soce 
Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 547, n. 6 (1877) ; Lycena beticus, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr , 1877, 
P. 215 ; Polyommatus beticus, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol i, p. 93 (1881) ; id., Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1882, p. 
31, n. 1; id., Distant, Rhop Malay, p. 214, fig. 64, neuration of forewing ; p. 230, Nn. 1, ph. xx, figs. 8, males 
1, female (1884) ; Papilio coluthea, Fuessly, Schweiz. Ins., p. 31, n 594, figs. 2, 2 (1775) ; Papilio damoétes, 
Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 526, n. 350 (1775) ; idem, id, Sp. Ins., vol. ii, p 124, n.558 (1781) ; idem, id., Mant., 
Ins. vol. ii, p. 77, mn. 707 (1787); id., Donovan, Ins. New Holl., pl. xxxi, fig. 2 (1805) ; Hesperia damoétes, 
Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p- 303, n. 148 (1793); Polyommaius damoétes, Godart, Enc. Méth., 
vol. ix, p. 680, n. 198 (1823) ; Lycena damoétes, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C., p. 81, n. 16 (1829) ; Papilio 
dametas, Esper, Gesch. eur. Schmett., pl. xxvili, figs. ra, larva; 1b, pupa; pl. xxix, figs. 1a, larva; 16, 
pupa ; pi. xxix, figs. 1a, larva 315, pupa (1806—18) ; Papilio pisorum, Fourcroy, Ent. Paris, vol. ii, p. 242, 
n. 25 (1785); Papilio archias, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. ii, pl. clxxzi, fig. C (1777) ; Lye@na archias ? Herrich- 
Schaffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit , vol. xxx, p. 73, n. 28 (1869). 
'  Hasirat: England (rarely), South Europe (excepting eastern portions), Central and 
South-West France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Madeira, Canary Isles, Teneriffe, St. 
Helena, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, almost throughout Africa, almost throughout Asia 
(except the northern portions and Amurland), China, Japan, Ceylon, Nias Island, Sumatra, Java, 
Batchian, Waigiou, Bantam, Celebes, Ceram, Aru, Duke of York Island, Australia, Sandwich 
Islands, Hawaiian Islands, 
EXPANSE: @, 2,°9 to 1°6 inches (Indian specimens). 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale violaceous [thickly overlaid with 
long hair-like scales, giving the wings a frosted appearance]. Forewing with the costal 
margin narrowly and the outer margin more broadly pale fuscous. Hindwing with the costal 
and posterior margins pale fuscous, a Iarge black marginal spot between the second and 
first median nervules, and two contiguous smaller black spots at the anal angle ; [faz black, 
outwardly fringed to near the tip and the extreme tip white.] UNpDERSIDER, doth wings pale 
brownish-ochraceous, with the following linear brownish fasciz margined with greyish :—/ore- 
wing with two crossing the middle and two near the end of the cell, two (considerably frac- 
tured), crossing the wing between the end of the cell and the outer margin, commencing near 
