LYCMNA. 
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VAEIETY. 
Bella, H.-S. 227-8, i. 127. Has the wings of a lighter 
blue than the type ; the hind wings have a more conspicuous row 
of hind-marginal black spots. 
Habitat. — Turkey (?), Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia. 
L. Argus, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 483 ; Esp. 20, 3 ; Hiib. 
316-8; Och. i. 2, 52; Err. 169. 
Expands 1 to I'lO in. The male is dark blue, nearly the 
same colour as L. JEgon, which it altogether greatly resembles ; 
the hind-marginal border, however, is narrower and more defined, 
the hind-marginal spots of the hind wings are more distinct, and 
the white marginal fringes are very narrow — not broad, as in 
AEgon. The female on the upper surface almost entirely resembles 
the female of L. JEgon, but the orange hind-marginal spots are 
rather more distinct. Under side : — Ground colour uniform 
brownish grey in both sexes ; the central row of spots on the fore 
wings is more even, the last spot but one from the inner margin 
being more in a line with the rest, and not, as it were, thrust 
inwards, as in L. ^gon ; the silvery spots on the hind margin are 
much more distinct than in JEgon. The anterior tibi® are not 
provided with spines. PI. XXIII., 2. 
Times of Appearance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — The greater part of Europe (not, however, in 
Great Britain) ; Asia Minor, and Armenia. It is a more local 
insect than the last, though it is found in the same kind of 
localities. 
Larva. — According to Guenee, dark green, with a red dorsal 
line, and an oblique reddish streak on each segment, bordered with 
whitish. Feeds on Genista, Melilotus, &c. PI. XXIX. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Argyronomon (female ah.), Berg. Nom. ii. p. 76. This is 
merely an aberration of the female in which the wings are suffused 
with blue. 
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