312 LYCEXID.E. 
" 2 • -^Ise supra fuscae, ciliis albis ; corpus ciuereo-fuscum ; subtus velut mari. 
"Alar. exp. unc. I5." {Butler, I. c.) 
L. lycormas differs from L. cyllarus, Eott., in the paler brown colour, 
broader black margins, and broad white fi-inges of the upper surface ; on 
the under surface the ground-colour is whiter and the secondaries are less 
suffused with bluish ; the spots are smaller on all the wings and are arranged 
in more uniformly curved series. 
Fryer remarks that he has only seen this species fi-om Yesso, where it was 
abundant, and he adds that some male specimens are almost as dark as the 
females. I believe that L. lycormas occurs also in the mountain districts 
of Central Japan. 
The specimens obtained by Christoph at Raddefka, Ammiand, in June 
and July, are deeper blue in coloration than the majority of Japanese 
specimens ; but as examples almost exactly identical occur in Japan, it is 
perhaps hardly necessary to retain the varietal name of scylla for the Amurland 
form as proposed as Dr. Staudinger. 
Occurs in Japan and Ammiand. 
Lycaena coeligena. 
Lyceena cccUgena, Obeithiir, Etud. d'Eiitom. ii. p. 21, pi. i. figs. Za,b (1876). 
" Je ne connais de cette espece que le male. Sa taille est celle de notre L. anon. II est en 
dessus d'ua bleu tres briUant et chatoyant. Ses ailes superioures sont assez largement 
teiutees de noir a I'apex. Cette teinte noire commence par longer le bord anterieur des 
ailes, puis elle s'epaissit au sommet, et enfin se termine par un mince lisere noir qui se 
prolonge aux ailes iuterieures qu'il borde jusqu'a Tangle anal; la frange est blanche. 
"En dessous, la Li/ecena coeligena est dun gris jaunatre; aux ailes superieures, un croissant noir 
entourd de blanc ferme la cellule discoidale, et de gros points noirs entoures aussi de blanc 
precedent, pres du bord exterieur, una rangee de petits croissants plus ou moins apparents 
et continuant la serie bien plus regulierement marquee de croissants semblables qui suit tout 
le bord externa de I'aile iuferieure. Cette aile iuferieure porte aussi un croissant lisere 
largement de blanc, fermaut la cellule discoidale, et une couronne de points noirs cercle's 
de blanc. 
" Les anteimes sont annelees de blanc et de noir." (Oberthur, I. c.) 
M. Obcrthiir described the male only ; the follo^^^ng is a description of 
the female : — 
Female. Larger than the male. Ground-colour rather darker ; outer fourth of primaries and 
the costa of secondaries black ; a marginal series of large black spots on secondaries. 
Under surface as in male. 
Expanse, J 40-46 millim., 2 45-48 millim. 
