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CLXXXV. Genus LYC^NA. Fab. Lat. 



(418) 1. * Lyc^na Dorcas. Dorcas Lycasna. 



L. ( Dorcas) alls supra fusco-ferrugineis nigra punctatis et maculatis; suhtus fulvis ; primoribus punctis lunulisque nigris; 



secundariis subtus nigro obsolete punctatis ; apice lunulis obsoletis aurantiis. 

 Dorcas Lycaena, wings above brown-ferruginous dotted and spotted with black ; beneath tawny ; primaries with black spots 



and crescents ; secondaries obsoletely dotted with black ; marked at the apex with obsolete orange crescents. 



PLATE IV, FIG. 1. 

 Expansion of the wings 1 inch. 



Taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black above, white underneath. Antenna; black, annulated with white; knob tipped with 

 orange : wings brown with a reddish tint, underneath tawny : primaries with an angular band formed 

 of faint black spots ; behind these nearer the costa is a black bar, above which are two more spots ; 

 between the band and the posterior margin are three more black spots arranged transversely, and 

 above the base are three spots forming a triangle : the secondaries have a slight sinus near the anal 

 angle, the fringe of which projects so as to assume the appearance of a short tail ; cross the disk 

 runs an angular band formed of faint black spots, above which is a crescent of the same colour; at 

 the anal angle is an orange coloured angular bar, or abbreviated band ; underneath, these wings 

 have several indistinct black dots, the three external ones of which form an obtuse angle with the 

 four internal ones. 



This species seems the American representative of L. Phlceas, but its colour is much less vivid. 



CLXXXVI. Genus POLYOMMATUS. Lat. 



(419) 1. * Polyommatus Lucia. Lucia Polyommatus. 



P. (Lucia) alis supra argenteo-cceruleis margine tenuissime nigro ; primoribus subtus cinerascentibus, ocellis quatuor marginalibus 



indistinctis ; fascia maculari, lunulaque disci, nigris, albido cinetis ; secundariis subtus fusco-cinereis, albido nigroque 



maculatis ; ocellis in margine quinque. 

 Lucia Polyommatus, wings -above silvery-blue, with a very slender black margin ; primaries underneath cinerascent with 



four indistinct eyelets in the margin ; with a macular band and crescent in the disk black edged with white ; 



secondaries underneath brownish ash-colour, spotted with black and white ; with five eyelets in the margin. 



PLATE III, FIG. 8, 9. 

 Expansion of the wings 1 inch. 



One specimen taken with the preceding. 



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