LEPIDOPTERA. l8l 



Polyommatus* though that name is now generally given to the 



ig- T S3- Polyommatus (Lycena) virgaureae. 



preceding. We will content ourselves here by giving drawings of a 

 few species of the genus, namely, the Lyccena (Polyommatus] Corydon, 



Fig. 154. Polyommatus (Lycaena) gordius. 



or Blue Argus (Fig. 155), which is not uncommon wherever there 

 is chalk, in May and August; the Lyc&na (Polyommatus) battus, or 



* It may not be out of place to remark that although both these generic names 

 are applied, sometimes to the one, sometimes to the other of these genera, the 



