Mr. Henry J. Turner on the Balterjiies of Cyprus. 193 



" Flies at the same time and has the same habits as 

 E.jurtina, but is not nearly so conmion." — G.F.W., 1918. 



This is another species of Epinephele which up till recent 

 years has been confused with a well-known and connnon 

 allied species of Central Europe. In 1909 Count Turati, 

 after receivmg many local forms of E. lycaon, made a 

 thorough investigation of their genitalia and unhesitatingly 

 separated lupiniis as a true species (" Nat. Sic," p. 56, etc., 

 pi. vii, figs. 1-9), calling it rhamnusia Frr., in error. Dr. 

 Chapman has very kindly sketched the ancillary organs 

 of the Cyprian lujnnus, and they quite agree with those 

 in the figures noted above. 



E. lupinus is, in both sexes, considerably larger than 

 E. lycaon of Central Europe, and the underside of the fore- 

 wings is of a bright rust-red, practically uninterrupted in 

 the male, but in the female the submarguial area is 

 separated from the discal by a transverse dark line. The 

 underside of the hind-wing is uniformly strongly speckled, 

 and has very obsolescent transverse lines. The males 

 have the androconial patches larger than in the males 

 of E. lycaon, behig both longer and wider and are more 

 definitely margined and conspicuous. The general ground- 

 colour is of a deeper brown, more on the black side than 

 the orange side of brown coloration. In the female the 

 bright orange colour is confined to conspicuous rings 

 around the two (apical and marginal) spots. Occasional 

 specimens have a slight fulvous flush on the disc of the fore- 

 wing, but never in any degree comparable to what occurs 

 frequently in E. lycaon, nor does this flush ever extend to 

 the hind- wings, which in both sexes are practically uniform 

 deep brown, showing now and then a faint indication of 

 a transverse line separatuig the basal and margmal areas. 

 The two black submarginal spots on the fore- wing of the 

 female are mostly large and conspicuous, the apical being 

 always the larger, but the mid-margmal spot is variable in 

 size, and in one example is only represented by a black 

 dot in a dull fulvous blotch. In nearly every example 

 the apical eye-spot is centred by a minute white dot. In 

 the male there is only one spot, the apical, which varies 

 but little in size. Only in one female is there an incipient 

 spot between the usual two on the fore-wing. 



One specimen is very small, only measuring 40 mm. 

 compared with 50 mm. the average of the lupinus in 

 expanse ; it may possibly be called the ab. janinda Esp. ; 



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