POLYOMMATUS (LYCiENA) COEYDON. 191 



PoLYOMMATUS (LYO^NA) CoEYDON. 



Plate XIV, fig. 3. 



All that I know of this species is given in the 

 account of Adonis, see ante, p. 109, and I can only 

 repeat here that both Mr. Buckler and myself took 

 the utmost pains to examine and describe the larvae of 

 Adonis and the single one of Corydon there mentioned. 



POLYOMMATUS (LyC^Na) ALEXIS. 



Plate XV, fig. 2. 



(See ante, p. 111.) 



On 29th April, 1865, I found a nearly full-grown 

 larva on Lotus corniculatus, and sent it to Mr. Buckler, 

 and on 27th July of the same year Mr. H. Doubleday 

 sent me several larvae on Ononis arvensis, from which 

 I bred the butterflies August 15th to 19th. On 

 August 25th, 1875, I watched a number of the butter- 

 flies laying their eggs on Lotus corniculatus, the axil 

 of a leaf being the spot generally selected, and some of 

 these eggs I secured ; the larvae began to appear 

 August 30th and fed away through the next month, 

 and I have a note that on February 5th, 1876, I had 

 one larva more than half grown, but this afterwards 

 died, its companions apparently having died previously 

 to the date of that note. On June 10th 3 1885, I 

 caught a ? butterfly, and enclosed her in leno over a 

 plant of Lotus corniculatus, and on the 12th, finding 

 she had laid a few eggs, I let her go again. The 

 larvae were hatched June 23rd, and were all kept on 

 their food-plant out-of-doors ; three or four of them 

 outstripped the rest in growth, and moulted at the 

 beginning of July, and again on July 12th. I could 

 not be certain of the dates of further moults, but there 

 was one about July 20th ; these larvae became full fed 



