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whiter, the bands are more intensely coloured, and their edges more regularly defined. In the 

 upper surface this sex greatly resembles L. Rosinum : the borders of the wings throughout 

 are brown, bearing in the hinder wings a series of ocellate spots ; the surfaces of both pairs are 

 covered with transverse patches, and the blue tint, which is purely azure, is confined to 

 the base. 



Our Collection contains two males and one female of this species in high perfection. In the female the 

 radiated band in the hinder wings is less distinct, but the marks generally are more pronounced. In the 

 upper surface this species is with difficulty distinguished from L. Rosimon. The comparison of two female 

 specimens contained in Mr. Haworth's collection, and of one preserved in the Banksian cabinet, has enabled me 

 to illustrate, in some measure, by an intricate description this hitherto imperfectly known species. In our 

 specimens the transverse bands are more interrupted than they appear in Donovan's figure. Several other 

 species, enumerated by systematic writers, belong to this small group, which is also found at the Cape of 

 Good Hope and in Brazil : the Papilio Lingeus of Cramer is from the former, and Mr. Haworth has one or 

 more species from the latter country. 



8. Lyc^ena Theophrastus. Ala supra maris caerulescenti-violacecB limbo Jtesco ; fceminaa singulm 



bast coerulescentes, anticm disco atro maculato, posticcB serie macularum albarum ocellorumque 

 margini postico paralleld : subtus albae strigis plurimis rmtcularibus atris ; posticce insuper ocdlis 

 quinqiK macularibus aureis, penultimo puncto nigro freto, anali didymo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 

 lin. foeminffi.) 



Hesperia R. Theophrastus. Fab. Ent. Syst. em. tom. 3. pars. 1. p. 281. No. 82. (The 

 female.) 



Polyommatus Theophrastus. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 658. 



Fabricius has described the female only, but in the Encyclopedic we have a delineation of the male also. 

 I have not examined the latter sex. The museum at the India-House contains a single female specimen, 

 derived from Dr. Russel, whose brother Claude Russell presented the result of his Entomological researches 

 to the Honourable Company ; it was probably from the coast of the Mediterranean. I have not found it in 

 Java. Mr. Haworth possesses two female specimens. In its upper surface it greatly resembles L. Rosimon 

 and Plinius; the disk of the fore wings is strikingly marked with quadrangular black spots, the hinder 

 wings bear a continued series of white spots, and beyond that, a series of brown ocelli, parallel with the 

 hinder margin. This species is most clearly distinguished from the others belonging to this group, by a 

 series of ocellate spots, covered with aureous irrorations, along the posterior border of the hinder wings 

 underneath, of which the anal one is reniform or double, and the adjoining ocellus marked with a pronounced 

 black dot. 



*** Three continued strigce parallel with the posterior margin passing uniformly through all the wings 

 underneath ; hinder wings further marked with six, rarely seven, successive parallel strigce, and 

 with three anal ocelli, the posterior one large and regularly orbicular, the second transverse and reni- 

 form, the third at the extreme anal angle, small and obscure ; the large ocellus bordered internally 

 with an orange or rufous lunule, and externally with a silvery streak, the other ocelli united at 

 their inner edge by irrorations and a rufous band. 



9. Lycjena -^lianus. Alee supra lactece limbo postico fusco : subtus canescenti-fusca albo strigosas ; 



strigis tribus continuis ad marginem posticum ; anticce insuper strigis quatuor in disco 



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