300 LTC^KID^. 
Of the female similar in size and shape to those of the male, except that the tarsus is articu- 
lated and nngniciilated like those of the four hind legs. 
" Hind legs short, slender. 
" Labta onisciform, gibho-scutate or oblong-scutate, witb the head and feet small and scarcely 
perceptible ; the body laciniate, and the back convex and generally beautifully coloured. 
Pupa oblong, very convex, smooth, obtuse at each end, and marked with obscure spots ; in a 
few species armed with short acute tubercles." ( Wcstwood, I. c) 
As many species originally placed in the genus Lycccna have been removed 
therefrom and placed in other genera, Mr. de Niceville has modified and 
amended Westjvood's diagnosis, as given above, so as to bring it more in 
accord Mith the restricted sense in which the genus is now understood. 
Lycaena SBgon. 
PapUio (Cffoit, Schiffcrmiller, Wieu. Yerz. p. 185 [1776). 
Papilio ar[iyrotoxiis, Bergstrasser, Nomen. ii. p. 77 (1779). 
Lyccena cegon, Lang, Butt. Eiu-. p. 103, pi. xxiii. fig. 1 (1884) ; Pryer, Rliop. Nihon. 
p. 18, pi. V. fig. 2 (1886). 
Lycana micrargus, Butler, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 283 (1873). 
Lyccena pseud(egon, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1881, p. 851. 
"Expands O'OO to 1-10 inch. The male has all the wings deep blue, rather inclining to violet, 
with a narrow brownish-black hind marginal border. The hind wings have some faint brown 
spots along the hind margin. The fringes of all the wings are broadly white. The female 
is brown, with faint traces of an orange band along the hind margin of the fore wings ; the 
hind wings have a more distinct orange hind marginal band, most conspicuous towards the 
anal angle, and enclosing four or five black spots. Underside grey : in the female with a 
tinge of brown ; the hind margins of all the wings with a double row of black spots, 
enclosing an orange band ; internal to these an irregular central row of black spots, 
surrounded by white rings. The fore wings have a round discoidal spot similarly surrounded 
by white, and no basal spots ; the hind wings have four spots between the central row and 
the base, two of them nearly touching the costa. The bases of aU the wings are strongly 
tinged with blue in the male, more faintly so in the female. The outermost spots of lower 
hind marginal row are minutely studded with metallic silvery blue. The anterior tibife are 
furnished witli short spines." (Lang, 1. c.) 
Larva. " Bright yellow-green, with the dorsal stripe blackish brown edged with whitish from the 
beginning of the third to the end of the tenth segment ; it is widest on the third and fourth, 
being on them of a rather rounded lozenge form, with a whitish dot near the edge on each 
side ; a dull dark brown small plate in front of the second segment, and a broad semilunar- 
shaped blotch of the same colour a little behind, divided in the middle by a fine line of the 
green ground-colour. The dorsal stripe on the eleventh segment becomes broad and squarish, 
but resumes its linear shape on the twelfth and thirteenth. The subdorsal line is visible 
from the begiuning of the third to the end of the eleventh segment as a greenish-yeUow line 
running between two green ones darker than the ground-colour. At the bottom of the side 
