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upper surfaces, but on the Continent the species varies in this 

 respect to a considerable extent. In Andalusia, for instance, a 

 form of the male occurs which is much larger than the type, and 

 of a whitish colour, shaded with pale grey in certain lights ; the 

 bases of all the wings and the thorax have slight traces of the 

 normal blue colour; the dark hind-marginal borders are generally 

 faint, but the ocelli on tlie posterior wings are clear and distinct. 

 The black chequers are not very conspicuous in the fringes of 

 the fore wings, and still less so, or even absent altogether, in the 

 fringes of the hind wings. Under sides whitish, with a slight 

 tinge of brown on the inferior wings, and the markings have a 

 faded appearance. The female is pale brown, with black discoidal 

 spots set in pale rings ; ocelli and orange crescents on the hind 

 margins of all the wings, and some dashes of the male colour 

 internal to the crescents on inferior wings. Under side rather 

 paler than that of normal female, but all the markings clearly 

 defined. 



The local form described above is known as albicans, H.-S., 

 and between it and the type are two other pale varieties, viz., 

 oppenina, L., found in Italy, and liispana, H.-S., occurring in 

 Northern and Central Spain. Superficially, albicans appears to 

 be a distinct species, but independent of the existence of forms 

 connecting it with cori/don, we have only to regard the character 

 of the under -side ornamentation when its identity stands 

 revealed. 



On mountains in Asia Minor a form of Lyccena is found, 

 which in every respect but one is, as far as we can judge from its 

 uj)per and under surfaces, a variety of corydon. I refer to 

 corydon'ms, H.-S. This insect is deep blue, or, according to 

 Staudinger, violet-blue in colour. Caucasica, Ld., a variety of 

 corydon, found in Armenia, is more like bellargus in colour, but 

 has the characteristic markings of corydon on both surfaces, and 

 corresponds with L. bellargus var. polona, Z., which occurs on 

 mountains in Asia Minor, and is of the typical colour, but has 

 the hind margins shaded, as in corydon. I possess a male 

 specimen sent me as corydon'ms, from Asia Minor, which does 

 not agree, as regards colour, with the description of corydon'ms 

 or yet with caucas'ica. In some lights this insect appears to have 

 faint traces of bellargus colour, but its tint is perhaps best 

 described as pale grey with a blue tinge, though this does not 



