80 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



founded on specimens in high perfection, obtained by allowing the larva to undergo its change. At least 

 twelve specimens are contained in the Honourable Company's museum. In the more simple specimens the 

 underside of the wings is of an uniform grayish tint, through which the transverse strigae are distributed ; 

 but there is a marked variety, in which the portion of surface included between the strigae has a dark or 

 brownish tint, and in this the wings appear as if marked with broad brown bands edged with narrow white 

 threads. This is the character of the Papilio Alexis of Stoll, which is cited in the Encyc. Meth. as a 

 Synonym of JElianus : but in the specimens of this variety, which are contained in our collection, the cha- 

 racter of the strigae and of the submarginal dots agrees with the description above given ; I have therefore 

 considered it a mere variety, and the correctness of this conclusion remains for future examination. 



Of Lyccena Celerio about ten specimens are contained in the Honourable Company's museum in a perfect 

 state of preservation, but I did not succeed in discovering the larva. 



Of Lyccena Elpis the collection contains at least fifteen specimens ; it appears to be, on the whole, the 

 most abundant of the three nearly related species. It is first named in the Enc. Meth., and described as a 

 native of Java, but the authors were unacquainted with the female. It has not before been figured ; the 

 illustration given on our first plate is not quite satisfactory, and I shall endeavour to afford a comparative 

 view of JElianus and Celerio as now defined and described. The anal ocelli agree in all the species arranged 

 in this section ; the three strigae parallel to the posterior margin extending through both wings, and the 

 strigae on the lower surface of the hinder pair having likewise the same character, with very slight modifica- 

 tions ; and the species can only be clearly discriminated by the markings of the lower surface of the anterior 

 wings, on which the specific character will eventually be founded. 



**** Wings underneath bearing undulated or catenulated marks, consisting of single or of compound 

 parallel bands, of a more saturated tint than the ground colour, bounded by white marginal strigae : 

 posterior wings in many cases marked with prominent black dots ; anal ocelli often two in number, and 

 ■nearly of equal size. 



14. Lyc«na Boetica. Ala supra maris pallide violacece nitore in fuscum vergente limbo fusco ; 

 posticm ocellulis analibus duobus nigris altero orbiculari altero oblongo angulum analem attingente ; 

 foeminae fuscce basi discoque argenteo irroratis, ocello anali postico saturatissimo iride sericeo-albd 

 insigni : subtus cinereo-flavicantes strigis tribus albis margini postico parallelis in posticis interiore 

 latiore et vividiore ; singulce insuper strigis undulatis quinatim fasciculatis, strigd intermedia alba 

 proximis fuscis latioribus marginalibtis tenuissimis albis ; horum fasciculorum in anticis tres, duo 

 in disco siti brevissimi, tertius submarginalis completus, in posticis duo completi insigniores, duo 

 insuper abbreviati, ad basin et in disco inter medii : ocelli anales duo in tcenii rufl transversa nidu- 

 lantes exterior e orbiculari postice lunula argentei cincto, altero oblongo puncto irrorato ad mar- 

 ginem posticum. (Exp. alar. unc. 1.) 



Papilio P. R. Boeticus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 789. No. 226. The female. 

 Hesperia R. Boetica. Fab. Ent. Syst. em. torn. 3. p. L p. 280. No. 77. 

 Papilio Boeticus. Esp. Pap. tab. 27. Suppl. 3. fig. 3. a. b. p. 319— tab. 91. cont 41. 6°-. 

 3. p. 181. Hubn. Pap. tab. 74. fig. 373. 374. mas. 375. fern. Ochsenh. Pap. Eu°r. 

 torn. 1. 2. p. 99. 

 Polyommatus Boeticus. MM. Latr. et Godt., Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 653. 

 Wings above, in the male, dull violet blue on a brownish ground colour, with a narrow defined 

 brown margin, and grayish fringe ; hinder ivings, bearing in contact with the posterior margin 

 opposite to the caudal appendage, a regularly orbiculate black spot, an oval one notched at 



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