POLYOMilATUS (LYCTENa) ADONIS. Ill 



point of figure and marking as identical, but goes on 

 to say that Adonis " est d'un vert tres pale un peu 

 jaimatre," and calls its " tubercles" not black but 

 " bruns ; " while Gorydon " se distinguera toujours 

 assez facilement au premier coup d'ceil par sa couleur 

 d'un vert fonce, et par la petitesse de ses stigmates ; " 

 yet this is directly contrary to what we saw in our 

 examples, viz. the deep green in Adonis, and the yel- 

 lowish-green in Gorydon, and the spiracles of the same 

 size and form in both. (J. H., 11, 8, 74; E.M.M. 

 XI, 113.) 



PoLYOMMATUS (LyC^JNA) ALEXIS. 



Plate XV, fig. 2. 



On the 7th of September, 1880, near the shore, I 

 dug up a small plant of Lotus cornicul at/as, and potted 

 it the same evening. The next day I observed a 

 couple of empty egg-shells of a Lyccena on the plant, 

 one appearing quite fresh as though the young larva 

 had only just left it. The hole at the top by which 

 the larva had made its exit seemed wet and darkish 

 green. The exterior of the shell was very rough with 

 projections, and precisely similar to the egg of JEgon, 

 and of the same round-flattened shape, its colour of a 

 very faint greenish-ivhite. 



Two days later, on the 9th, I detected the little 

 larva on an adjoining leaf on the upper surface, a few 

 grains of black " frass " having guided my eye to 

 detect its presence. The larva matched well with the 

 dull bluish-green leaf, it was of a sausage-like form, 

 and a strong lens enabled me to discern two rows of 

 minute black dots down the back. Its mode of 

 feeding on the cuticle of the leaf caused little pale 

 transparent blotches to appear, and I could see from 

 these indications that it had been on other leaflets 

 adjoining. 



