LYC^ENA 



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is deep blue, with a rather broad black band inside the 

 fringe. The upper surface of the female (Fig. 208) is dark 

 sepia-brown, sometimes tinged with blue, and with a more 

 or less developed line of spots fringed with red along the 

 hind-margins. If the blue tinge is absent, the female very 

 closely resembles L. astrarche on the upper surface. The 

 under-surface (Fig. 206) is bluish-grey in the male, brown- 

 ish-grey in the female. In each case there is a band of red 



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Male. 



LYC^NA ^EGON. 



spots parallel to the hind-margin of all the wings. There 

 is a line of black spots outside the red and of black 

 arches beyond it. Each fore-wing contains besides seven 

 white-margined black spots, and each hind-wing about 

 a dozen such spots. Some, or all of the black spots 

 forming the series near the hind-margin of the hind- 

 wings have a bright silvery-green metallic centre, whence 

 the common name. 



