LYC^NA. 



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This appears to be a rather local species. It occurs commonly at Ichang 

 and Chang-yang, Central China, in May and June, but in Western China 

 my collectors only met with it at Moupin, from which place the type was 

 received by M. Oberthiir. 



Lycaena pryeri. 



Lyccena pryeri, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 126 (1873) ; Pryer, Rbop. Nihon. p. 18, 

 pi. V. fig. 16 (1886). 



" Male. Upperside bright violet-blue, costa, tip, and hind margin broadly dark brown ; inner 

 margin of hind wing white. A dark brown streak closes the discoidal cell of foro wing. 

 Fringes white. Female similar to the male, but only blue at base and along inner margin 

 of fore wing, the disc being white. The discal portion of hind wing is also whitish, the 

 base being dusky. A blue streak closes the cell of hind wing in this sex ; in the male this 

 streak is hardly perceptible. In both sexes the veins of the wings are very distinct ; in the 

 female they are edged with bluish scales on the discal portion of the wing. 



" Underside white, with two marginal rows of black spots on each wing ; those of inner row of 

 upper wing being the largest, and seven in number. The outer row is composed of about 

 twelve spots. A fine black line occupies the extreme hind margin of both wings, Discoidal 

 cell closed by a brown streak, most distinct on fore wing. Exp., (S 22 lin., $ 24 lin. 



" Hab. Japan." (Murray, I. c.) 



Pryer says this species occurs at Yokohama and in Yesso in May and June. 

 The only specimens that I met with were captured near the summit of 

 Ibuki Yama (Lake Biwa) at about 5000 feet above the sea, in July. 

 Staudinger records L. pryeri from various parts of Amurland, and states that 

 the specimens do not differ from those from Japan. Dorries met with the full- 

 fed larva in June on Syringa amurensis. 



Lycaena euphemus. 



Papilio euphemus, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 257-259 (1798-1803). 

 Polyommatus euphemus, Duponchel, Lep. Fr. Suppl. i. p. 336, pi. 1. figs. 4-6 (1832). 

 Lyccena euphemus, Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 133, pi. xxxii. fig. 4 (1884) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 



p. 198, pi. V. figs. 4 a, 4 5 (1886). 

 Lyccena kazamoto, Druce, Cistula Entom. i. p. 361 (1875). 



Lyccena euphemus, var. euphemia, Staudinger, Rom. sur Ldp. iii. pp. 142-288, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 6 (1887). 



<* Expands 1-25 to 1-35 inch. Fringes of all the wings white. Wings blue in both sexes, with a 

 dark brownish-black hind marginal border, broader in the female than in the male ; all the 

 wings have a narrow black discoidal spot and a central row of round black spots. Under- 

 side brownish grej', with the spots arranged as on the upperside, but in addition to these all 

 the wings have a hind marginal row of black spots, and the hind wings, which are very 

 slightly blue at the base, have two basal spots." {Lanr/, ?. c.) 



