LYCAiNA. 
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zoological region of the world ; it is universally distributed 
tliroughout Europe, which contains forty-eight species at least. 
The Larvae have the onisciform shape common to the 
LYc^Ninai] ; they feed on a variety of low plants, generally 
preferring Leguminosce and Fapilionacece. 
1. L. Boetica, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 789 ; Esp. 27, 3 a, b, 91, 3 ; 
Hiib. 373-5, 
Expands I'lO to 1'33 in. The male has all the wings violet- 
blue ; in the female they are brown and bine only towards the base. 
The fore wings have the hind margins narrowly brownish 
black. The hind wings have faint traces of a hind-marginal 
orange band, and near the anal angle are one or two black spots ; 
attached to the hind margin is a slender tail. Under side : — Brown- 
ish grey, with numerous white streaks, and white bands running 
parallel to the hind margin. At the anal angle of the hind wings are 
two light orange spots, and below these two black ones, spotted at 
their lower part with metallic silvery green. PI. XXII., 2. 
Times of Appearance. — August, September, and October. 
Habitat. — The South of Europe (excepting the Eastern 
portion). Central and South-West France. It is rare in Switzer- 
land, Germany, and Belgium ; and is very occasionally taken in 
England on the South Coast, the first recorded capture being at 
Brighton in 1859 ; since that time it has been taken several times 
in this country. It also occurs in Western Asia and Persia, and 
in the more temperate parts of Africa (North and South), being 
found plentifully at the Cape. 
Larva. — Green or olive, or sometimes reddish brown, with a 
dark dorsal stripe. The spiracles are yellow, and below there is a 
white lateral stripe ; above the spiracles on each segment is an 
oblique line, paler than the ground colour. 
Pupa. — Pieddish yellow, dotted with brown, and with black 
spiracles. PI. XXVIII., 5. 
The Larva feeds in the pods of the common pea, also on 
ColiUea arbor escens, and on various leguminous plants, devouring 
the seeds. The eggs are laid in the autumn on the twigs of the 
