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POLYOMMATUS MARSYAS. 
PLATE XXVI. Figs. 1 and 2, Male. 
Pap. Marsyas, Linn. Fabr. Herlst. Pap. PI. 296, fig. 1,2} 
Cramer, PI. 332, fig. A, B. — Polyoiumatus Marsyas, Godart. 
N ot withstanding tlie numerous groups which have 
been recently withdrawn from this genus, it stiil 
includes a great variety of modifications of form 
which would amply justify further subdivision. Even 
the few examples which have been selected for illus- 
tration might afford the types of more than one 
group ; but, for the reasons already mentioned, we 
prefer presenting them according to Latreille’s ar- 
rangement. Most of these insects are beneath the 
middle size, they are usually adorned with very 
beautiful colours on the surface, and ornamented 
with ocelliform spots beneath, a circumstance which 
has suggested the name. They are distinguished 
from the immediately preceding genera by having 
the palpi of ordinary length, or rather short, and 
all the legs complete, or adapted for walking, in 
both sexes. The group to which the first species 
represented belongs, has the costa of the upper wings 
more or less arched, particularly towards the base, 
and the hinder margin of the same wings is very 
slightly concave, especially in the male. The hinder 
