32 Psyche [March-June 
Pseudolucia n.g. 
(figs. CHI, COL, pi. 5) 
Type: Lyccena chilensis Blanchard 1852. 
Two species known: 
chilensis Blanchard ( Lyccena , 1852, in Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool. 
7:37-38, “Coquimbo, Chile,” pi. 3, figs. 4a 3 , b; Scolitantides 
chilensis , Butler, 1881, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881:467; ? Lyccena 
endymion 1 2 Blanchard, 1852 ibid/.Z 7 “Coquimbo, Chile,” pi. 3, 
fig. 3a 3 , b; Polyommatus atahualpa Wallengren, 1860, Wien, 
ent. Monatschr. 4:37, “Valparaiso, Chile”). 
collina Philippi ( Lyccena , 1860, Linn. Ent. 14:2 70-271 “San- 
tiago, Chile”; Scolitantides 2 collina , Butler, 1881 l.c.; Lyccena 
lyrnessa Hewitson, 1874, Ent. Month. Mag. 11:107 “Chile”). 
Generic Description 
iEdeagus thick-set, with strong fat tabs and alulae, the latter 
very homogeneous with the subzonal sheath, sepaloid, arched 
and raised (as in several suprazonally short palaearctic genera 
e.g. Agrodicetus) , the zone dipping medially (ventrally slightly 
more so than dorsally) and coinciding with the beginning of the 
vesical opening on the dorsal side. Suprazonal portion, as meas- 
ured from that medial point ventrally, extremely short, about 
one third the length of the subzonal one (and still shorter if 
measured from the apices of the “shrugged” alulae), thus shorter 
than in any other species restricted to the New World. The 
short shield of the (ventral) suprazonal sheath deltoid in ven- 
tral aspect, acuminate in lateral view and quite straight i.e. lack- 
ing the slight excurvation noticeable in Hemiargus , Cyclargus 
etc.; exceeding in length the plain unarmed vesical tip of the 
penis (which seems sunken between the alulae). Subzonal 
sheath thickly lining the penis, curiously shagreened ventrally. 
Furca strongly developed, its tips connected with the sagum. 
The latter in shape and position of the Echinargus isola type, 
but considerably smaller (in relation to the aedeagus), its two 
lobes reaching from the level of the alulae (to which they are 
1 Rechristened “ sibylla ” by Kirby (1871, Cat. Diurn. Lepid.: 377) who wrongly 
thought Blanchard’s name clashed with Papilio endymion [ Schiff ] = Meleageria 
meleager Esper. 
2 The genus Scolitantides Hiibner, of which orion Pallas is the type, belongs to 
the Glaucopsychince. By an amusing coincidence Butler placed almost correctly 
in that genus the species plumbea described ibid. 
