THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XX.] MAY, 1887. [No. 288. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS LYCjENA. 



By Richard South, F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 85.) 



LyccBua eros, O. 



The male of this species is of a pale bluish-green on the 

 upper surface, with fairly broad dark hind-marginal borders to 

 all the wings, and black spots, sometimes but faintly indicated, 

 on the margins of inferior pair. Normally there is no trace of a 

 discoidal spot on fore wings, but two examples in my collection 

 have short black lines at the external edge of discoidal cell, the 

 position usually occupied by the discoidal spot. Venation 

 blackish on hind margins of all the wings, and the same dark 

 colour is, in one or two examples, projected into the white 

 fringes. Female brown, with orange crescents on all the wings, 

 sometimes only faintly exhibited. Black discoidal spot on fore 

 wings. The under side coloration and arrangement of ocelli 

 identical with the same characters in icarus. Normally there are 

 two basal ocelli on fore wing, but in some specimens the lower, 

 and in others both, are absent. Sometimes, too, the first and last 

 eyed-spots of the central series are also absent. On the hind 

 wings the discoidal spot is often without a black centre, and the 

 white streak is always present, and, though often faint, sometimes 

 extends from the orange crescents nearly to the discoidal spot.* 



* The fifth husal ocellus, noted as occuvriog on the hind wings of some examples 

 of conjdon, icarus, and bellargus, is also to he seen in some specimens of Mjlas, 

 escheri, and eros, as well as in such other species of Lijcccna as ccgon, argus, cleoMs, 

 ENTOM, — MAY, 1887. 1^ 



