LYC^NID.E. 
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F. ; spots of cliscal series in both wings, and spots iu basal area of 
hind-wing, irregularly placed but separate and sub-quadrate. 
L. Thcspis (Linn.) [tailed], Boivkcri, Trim, [tailed]. 
164. (46.) Lycaena Thespis, (Linnaeus). 
Plate VIIL ff. 2 ( ), 2a ( ? ). 
Papilio Tliespis, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 318, n. 136 (1764); and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 791, n. 236 (1767). 
$ Papilio Pitlio, Linn., opp. cit., p. 337, n. 255 ; p. 795, n. 266. 
^ $ Polyommatus T/iespis, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 682, n. 207 (1819). 
(J 9 Lyccena Thespis, Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 246, n. 147 (1866). 
Exp. aL, ($) II — ii| lin. ; (?) I in. — i iu. I lin. 
$ Bright shining -Uue, ivith a narroio, blackish, hind-marginal line ; 
cilia broad, tvhite, sharply and regularly intersected ivith black at ends of 
nervules. Fore-iuing : a faint line closing cell. Hind-wing : two faint- 
blackish hind-marginal spots, one on either side of first median nervule. 
Under side. — Whitish, much intersected and cliequered with quadrate 
blackish-grey or ochrey-grey spots. Fore-iving : costa and hind-margin 
more or less tinted with ochrey-grey ; a transverse blackish-grey spot 
in cell, another (surmounted by two smaller spots) closing it ; a very 
irregular, interrupted transverse row of spots beyond middle, only 
separated in parts by white spots from a regular row^ of spots (parallel 
to hind-margin) beyond it ; a row of minute white lunules edging the 
latter combined with the ochrey tint to form a pale hind-marginal 
border, marked with a row of very indistinct dark dots ; inner margin 
dull-grey; from base a narrow blackish streak, inferiorly bounding 
subcostal nervure, terminating abruptly a little before spot in cell. 
Hind-wing : three irregular transverse rows of ochrey-grey quadrate 
spots, more or less confluent on inner margin ; hind-marginal border 
as in fore-wing, but more tinted with ochreous superiorly ; two lowest 
hind-marginal spots faintly silvery-centred, the rest of the series less 
distinct. 
$ Blackish, shot luith blue from bases over discs. Fore-wing : inner 
transverse roio of under side distinct, black, separated from hind- marginal 
blackish by conspicuous pure-iohite sp)ots ; terminal disco-cellular spot 
large, with a whitish dot on each side ; a row of minute indistinct 
bluish dots near hind-margin. Hind-wing : two submarginal rows of 
bluish lunules, the inner row more or less confused with discal blue, 
the outer forming three incomplete rings near anal angle ; black spots 
barely distinguishable from hind-marginal blackish edging. Under 
SIDE. — As in ^ ; but white ground much brighter and clearer, 
especially on hind-margins. Hind-ioing : transverse rows separately 
traceable to inner-margin ; metallic centres of two lowest hind-mar- 
ginal spots more brilliant. 
