56 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



genera far removed from our European species ; and the 

 genera under which they will probably be classed are here 

 indicated, but without characters being given. 



GENUS PSEUDOLYC/ENA. 



Pseud olyccena, Wallengren, Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 

 Stockh. xv. p. 89 (1858). 



I. PSEUDOLYCVENA MARSYAS. 

 (Plate X LI I. Figs. I, 2.) 



Papilio tnarsyas, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 482, no. 



149 (1758); id. Mus. Ludov. Ulrica?, p. 315(1764); 



Clerck, Icones, pi. 41, fig. i (1764); Cramer, Pap. 



Exot. iv. pi. 332, fig. A, B (1780). 

 Polyoinmatus marsyas, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 620, no. n 



Thecla warsyas, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 285, pi. 97 



(1888).' 



The present species, which is very common in Tropical 

 America, is one of the largest species of Lycanidct, found in 

 the New World, expanding about two inches and a half, or 

 even more. It is greenish-blue on the upper side, changing in 

 certain lights into violet, with the cos La of the fore-wings 

 narrowly, and the apical region broadly, black. Beneath, the 

 colour is glossy lilac, with seven or eight black spots in while 

 rings above and beyond the discoidal cell in each wing ; the 

 hind-wings have two black lines edged with white beyond the 

 spots, the innermost incomplete above ; towards the anal 



curious aberrations of structure and habits ; in one species the front legs 

 are perfectly developed in both sexes, while another species has been 

 taken at light, 



