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THE INSECT WOELD. 



Polyommatus (Lyccena) gordius (Fig. 154), neither of which occurs 

 in this country. 



Fig. 153. Polyommatus (Lycgeua) virgaurese. 



In the meadows, the gardens, and the lucerne and clover fields, 

 are found the charming Blue butterflies, the wings on the upper 



Fig. 154.- Polyommatus (Lyeaena) gordius. 



side, in the majority of instances, blue in the case of the males, 

 brown in the females. 



They comprise the genus Lyccena, or, as it is frequently called, 

 Polyommatus* though that name is now generally given to the 

 preceding. We will content ourselves here by giving drawings of 



* 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 genus 

 named in the text Polyommatus and that called Lyccena are never considered identical. 

 When either name is applied to the one, it is not at the same time applied to 

 the other. ED. 



