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no ' male-mark ' on the upperside of the forewing, but it has the 

 abdomen of a male stuck on with the claspers exposed. The forewing 

 on the upperside has the yellow patch very broad, narrowing slightly 

 to the first median nervule, with a quadrate yellow patch below that • 

 vein [z.e., exactly as in Moore's figure of L. moiroides in Lep. Ind., 

 pi. xcvi, fig. 3, female]. Underside, hindwing has the outer-discal line 

 sinuous below the costa and zigzag towards' the abdominal margin 

 [i.e.^ ?i& in L. menava]. X. m€ero?(i^5 is a male, the forewing on the 

 upperside with a broad 'male-mark'; the yellow patch small and 

 obsolescent ; the subapical small ocellus beyond the usual large ocellus 

 very minute. Underside, hindwing exactly as in L. mcerula.'" From 

 this note it is evident that Felder described L. mcerula from 

 a female, not a male as stated by him. The species should, I think, 

 be sunk as a synonym of L. menava ; both species were described in the 

 the same year (1865), but Mr. Moore figured his type male, which 

 Felder did not do. L. mmroides should, I think, also be sunk as a 

 synonym of L. menava ; the male is evidently the same as that species 

 according to Mr. Hampson's and my examination of the type ; and 

 the female, which Felder figured, appears to be its true opposite sex. 

 There only remains Mr. Moore's figure in Lep. Ind. of what he calls 

 L. mcBToides, female, to deal with. It is obvious, I think, that it is only 

 L. menava. No good character is given by which to separate it ; 

 the discal patch on the upperside of the forewing is larger than in his 

 figure of L, menava^ female, and it has two instead of four ocelli on 

 the hindwing, but these features are obviously inconstant in this group 

 of the genus. All this confusion would have been avoided if 

 Mr. Moore had only examined the types of Felder's two species before 

 he sat dovra to write about them. 



An interesting little monograph might be written on the genus 

 Lasiommata if all the species in it from the various localities where 

 the genus is found were got together and critically compared. As far 

 as I am able to gather from books and the scanty material available, 

 all the species except L. laurion have a " male-mark." Two species 

 of the present group occur in Europe, L. mcera, Linnasus, and L. hiera, 

 Fabricius, both of which have male secondary sexual characters."^ 



* Inadvertently in Butt. India, vol. i, p. 180, footnote, in describing " A?necera '' mcera 

 it is stated that that species " lacks the usual sexual streak," which is incorrect. 

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