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LYC.ENIDM. 
brown, with liind-marginal orange spots, most distinct near the 
anal angles. Under side : — Light grey ; all the wings with a 
marginal row of large orange spots enclosed in a double row of 
black ones ; discoidal spots conspicuous ; fore wings with no basal 
spots, but with a central row of eyes ; hind wings with a central 
row of eyes and three basal spots. The fringes are white. 
PI. XXIII., 6. 
Time of Appeaeance. — May. 
Habitat. — The Steppes of South Russia. 
12. L. Bavius, Evers. Nouv. Mem. Mosc. (1832) 349, t. 19, 
3, 4; H.-S. 10, 11, 357-60. 
Expands 1-16 to 1‘36 in. The male has all the wings bluish 
purple, with hind-marginal black borders ; near the anal angle of 
the hind wings are three or four black spots surrounded by orange. 
The female is dark brown, with a hind-marginal row of orange 
spots on the hind wings. Under-side Fore wings with the spots 
much larger than the hind wings ; there is a hind-marginal row of 
black spots, and the central row is much curved ; the discoidal spot 
is well marked, and there are one or two basal spots. The hind 
wings have a hind-marginal row of orange spots enclosed by a 
double row of black ones ; central row wavy ; discoidal and four 
basal spots well marked. PI. XXIII., 7 (from H.-S.) 
Time of Appeaeance. ? 
Habitat. — South Russia, Asia Minor, and Syria ; a rare and 
not well-known species. 
Laeva. — Unknown. 
13. L. Orion, Pallas, Reis. t. i. p. 471 (1771). — Tdepldi, Esp. 
41, 2 {lll^).—Battus, Hub. 328-30, 801-2 (1793).— 
Jjatlms, Fab. Mant. 76 (1787). 
Expands 0-85 to 1‘12 in. The male has all the wings dark 
brown, covered with purple scales, excepting along a broad band 
parallel to the hind margins. Fore wings with a black discoidal 
spot. Hind wings with a hind-marginal row of black spots in 
light blue rings. Fringes of all the wings spotted with black 
