LYC^NA. 115 



remarkable for possessing two, or more often three, small pro 1 

 jecting tufts of scales on the hind-margin of the hind-wings. 



GENUS LYC^NA. 

 Lycana> Fabricius in Illiger, Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 285 (1807) ; 



Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 129 (1815); Curtis, Brit. 



Ent. i. pi. 12 (1824); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. 



p. 79 (1828). 

 PolyommatuS) pt. Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xiv. p. 116 



(1805). 



Chrysophanus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 72 (1816); West- 

 wood, G'jn. Diurn. Lepid. p. 497 (1852) ; Schatz & 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 274 (1892). 

 I have already, in my remarks on the genus Folyommatus^ 

 explained my reasons for regarding L. phl&as as the type of 

 Lyccena. 



The present genus differs from those which we have already 

 noticed, in which the sub-costal nervure is four-branched, by the 

 absence of the upper disco-cellular nervule on the fore-wings, 

 and by the brilliant coppery-red colour of most of the species. 

 They are widely distributed in Europe and Asia, and in addi- 

 tion to their bright coppery colour, many are flushed with 

 purple. Others are slightly tailed ; but these peculiarities are 

 but slightly indicated in any of our British species, all of which, 

 with one exception, are now excessively rare, if not actually 

 extinct in Britain. 



I. THE SCARCE COPPER. LYC^ENA VIRGAURE^E. 



(Plate L. Figs.^ 5.) 



Papilio virgaurece, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 484, no. 

 181 (1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 285 (1766) ; Esper, 

 Schmett. i. (i) p. 287, pi. 22, figs. 2a, (1777) ; Hiibner, 

 Europ. Schmett. i. figs. 359-361 (1803?), figs. 884-887 

 (1827?). 



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