ZERITIS. LUCIA. 



501 



6. Zen. PiERUs Cramer, Pap. pi. 243. f. E. F. (rapilio V.). 



Papilio Nycetus Cramer, Pap. pi. 3S(). f. F. G. (var.). 

 Hesperia Evailrus Fabricius, Ent. iiyst. in. pt. 1. p. 343. ; 

 Godarl, Enc. M. ix. p. 671. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



7. Zer. Zeu.\o Linnceus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 7S9. (Papilio Z.); Fabricius, 



Maiit. Ins. II. p. 82. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 672. 

 Cape of Good Hope. (Mus. Linn.) 



8. Zer. Neriene Boinduval, Sp. yen. Lep. pi. 22. f. 6. 



Guinea ? 



9. Zer. Thyra Linnrem, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 789. (Papilio T.) ; Fabr. 



Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 314. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 

 G63. ; Hiibner, Samnil. cxot. Sclim. Band i. pi. — . ; 

 Doubl. Westw. &i Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 76. f. 9. 

 Var. Hesperia Suetonius Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. 

 p. 320. 

 Western and Southern Africa. B. M. 



10. Zer..' Lara Linnaus, St/sl. Nat. ii. p. 791. (Papilio L.) ; Fabr. 

 Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 315. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 

 675. 



Papilio lolaus Cramer, Pap. t. 270, f. F, G. 

 Papilio Gorgias Stall, Suppl. Cramer, Pap. t. 33. f. 5. 

 5 D. 

 South Africa. B. M. 



11. Zer. Sypuax Lncas, Emptor. A/gerie, Lep. pi. 1. f. 8, 9- '""i. '"■ 

 p. 362. (Cigaritis S.). 

 Algeria. 



12. Zer. Masinissa Lucas, Expl. Alyer. An. Art. t. 3. p. 364. n. .50. 

 (Cigaritis M.), Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2d ser. 1850, 

 t. viii. p. 99. pi. 2. f. 11. 2 a. 2 b. 

 Algeria. 



13. Zeb. Zohra Donzel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1847, p. 528. pi. 8. f. 

 5, 6. (Cigaritis Z.). 

 Algeria, Barbary. 



14. Zer. .'' Acamas King S; Ehrenbcrg, Symbohe Pliys. pi. 40. f. 7 — 9. 

 (Thecla A.). 

 Syria, Arabia Felix. 



Genus XVI. LUCIA. 

 Lucia p. Swainson. 



General appearance of the small brown-coloured tailless species of Lycajna, of dull colours, and with the ocelli on the 



under side of the wings ill-defined. 

 Head thickly hairy in front. 



Eyes very convex, naked. 



Antennce short, rather thick ; gradually thickened into a long terminal club, obtuse at the tip ; intermediate joints 

 short, not ringed with white. 



Labial Palpi rather elongate, clothed beneath with long hairy scales, amongst which are a very few bristles ; 

 terminal joint, short, slender. 



Fore Wings entire. Apical margin very convex. Postcostal vein with three branches ; the third arising half- 

 way between the cell and the tip of the wing. Middle and lower disco-cellular veins very slender, the latter 

 uniting with the third branch of the median vein at a short distance beyond its origin. 



Hind Wtmjs rounded, entire, or slightly scalloped. The disco-cellular veins very slender; the upper one arising 

 just beyond the fork of the postcostal vein, and the lower one uniting with the third branch of the median 

 close to its origin. 



Legs short, moderately spined on the under side of the tarsi ; fore tibiaj not terminated by a curved horny point. 



Lucia was proposed by Mr. Swainson as one of his five subgenera of the genus Polyomniatus * ; but, although he only assigned three 

 species to the group, two of them differed from the type in the formation of their antenna;, agreeing, in fact, not only in this but otlier 



* The five subgenera of which Mr. Swainson conceived the genus Polyomniatus to consist are : 1. our Chrysophanus (or the Coppers, Lyca?na Su-ninson) ; 

 2. our Lyca;na (or the Blues, Polyomniatus proper Swainson) ; 3. Erina Swainson, Hesperia Erinus Fabr., Lyciena ignita Leach, and a few other Australian 

 species which we have not regarded as distinct from Lycicna ; t. Lucia Swainson ; and 5. Nais Swainson (our Zeritis). These groujis are arranged in a circle, 

 in accordance with Mr. Swainson's ordinary fanciful notions of analogy ; and hence the fact of two of the Luciie having one kind of antenn.-c, whilst the type 

 has the same organs differently constructed, is regarded as a proof of the soundness of the group termed Lucia. If, however, Agricola, Erinus, ignita, &c., 

 are to be separated from Lycaina, it will be necessary to establish a much greater number of groups of equal rank with those which Mr. Swainson has given. 



