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LYCMNIDM. 
Seas. Three of these species may he said to occur in Europe ; 
the fourth is exclusively North- African. 
1. T. Ballus, Fab. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 80 (1787) ; Hiib. Eur. 
Schmett. i. f. 360-61 (1798). 
Expands 1 to 1*25 in. The male is brown. The hind wings 
have one or two indistinct orange spots at the anal angle. The 
female has the fore wings bright orange, with broad dark brown 
hind marginal and costal borders ; the hind wings are dark brown, 
with large orange hind-marginal blotches. The under sides of 
both sexes are similar. The fore wings are orange, with a coppery 
tinge, with the costa and apex brown ; they are covered with 
numerous black spots, which are disposed in three rows. The 
hind wings are green, with a bronzy lustre, and thinly covered 
with white spots ; hind margins reddish brown. Head and pro- 
thorax shiny green, the rest of the body black ; clubs of antemige 
long and black, their shafts ringed with white. PI. XVIII., 5. 
Time of xIppeaeance. — March. 
Habitat. — The South of France, Spain, and North Africa, on 
the shores of the Mediterranean. 
Lakva. — “ Yellowish white, with a row-of reddish dorsal spots, 
bordered with brownish red, and bisected by a blue line ; oblique 
streaks and lateral line violet-red. Head brown ; first and second 
segments washed with reddish. On Lotus Hisjndus ” (Kirby, from 
Guenee.) 
2. T. Nogelii {rcctc Nouelli), H.-S. 529-32; Frr. 574, 1, 2. 
Expands 1 to 1'12 in. The male has all the wings dark 
brown, nearly black; the marginal fringes are white. The under 
side is grey. The fore wings have an orange discoidal spot ; along 
the hind margin is a row of orange spots, and internal to this a 
row of larger ones bordered with black. Hind wings grey, with 
three rows of orauge spots, bordered with black. The female has 
the wings dark brown ; the fore wings have a bright orange patch 
in the centre. The hind wings have an orange patch on the hind 
margin, near the anal angle. The under side resembles that of 
