THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Vol. XX.] MAECH, 1887. [No. 286. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS LYC.ENA. 



By Richard South, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 8.) 



In my last note the variation of Lyccuna conjdon in England 

 was discussed ; reference will now be made to some specimens 

 from the continent of Europe, and remarkable forms from 

 Asia Minor. 



I have before me short series of the species from Thuringia 

 and Magdeburg in Saxony, the Swiss Alps and the Pyrenees. 

 All are of the normal type on the upper surface, except the 

 Magdeburg males. These last are of a paler blue than usual, 

 and have exceedingly broad blackish hind-marginal borders to 

 all the wings ; the costa is also broadly streaked with blackish. 

 Variation in the character of under-side ornamentation, on the 

 same lines as noticed in English specimens, is exhibited by a few 

 examples in the series from the Pyrenees. Thus a male of the 

 obsolete type would fit in well between the Eastbourne specimens, 

 figured, PI. I., figs. 1, 2; and a female with confluent spots is 

 very similar to the male represented, PI. I., fig. 0. In this series 

 are also some fine examples of the var. syngraplia, Kef., which 

 would be fairly well depicted by fig. 9, PL I., if to this figure were 

 added black discoidal spots and a dash of colour along the costa 

 of fore wings, similar in tint to tliat of tlie hind-marginal 

 borders. 



As previously adverted to, male corydon, from widely separated 

 localities in England, differ somewhat in the tone of their blue 



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