LYCMNA. 
101 
angle. Female brown, shot with violet-blue at the base of the 
wings ; fore wings with two parallel rows of dark spots ; hind 
wings with faint dark markings, and some wdiitish lines or streaks 
along the hind margin. Under side : — White, slightly shaded with 
grey. Parallel to the hind margins of all the wings is a row of 
well-defined black spots, those on the hind wings near the anal 
angle being spotted with silver. Internal to this is a narrow dark 
band continued for the entire breadth of fore and hind wings. 
Inside this band the basal areas of the wings are more shaded with 
grey, and marked with numerous well-defined dark brown or black 
spots. PI. XXII., 4. 
Times of Appeaeance. — July and August. 
Habitat. — Turkey, Western Asia, and Persia. It is very 
closely allied to the African L. Theophrastus, F. 
4. L. Argiades, Pall. Eeis. i. p. 472 (1771). — Tiresias, Rott. 
Naturf. vi. 23 (1775); Esp. 34, 1, 2. — Amuntas, S. V. 
(1776); Htib. 322-4. 
Expands 0'80 to 1-12. in. Hind wings with a short tail. 
The male has all the wings violet-blue, with a narrow brown hind- 
marginal border ; the fore wings are without spots ; the hind wings 
have two or three small brown spots along the hind margin, near 
the anal angle. The female is brown, slightly tinged with violet- 
blue at the bases ; the hind wings, besides having two or three 
black spots near the anal angle, show faint traces of an orange 
band. The fringes in both sexes are white. Under side: — Greyish 
white, tinged with blue at the base ; all the wings have a faint 
hind-marginal orange band. The fore wings have a narrow linear 
discoidal spot, and a row of seven black spots parallel to the hind 
margin. The hind wings have a row of black spots enclosed by 
the orange band, and an irregular row running across the central 
area of the wings, besides two placed near the base. PI. XXII., 5. 
Times of Appeaeance.- — From May to the end of August. 
Habitat. — Central and Southern Europe (except Britain and 
Spain), North-'Western Asia, the South of Siberia, and the Am in-. 
It frequents meadows, and is generally a common insect. There 
