LYC.i^'.SA. 
known in this country for so many years.* Yet as this alteration 
in nomenclature has been adopted not only by Staudinger, hut by 
entomologists generally, and applies equally to other species, there 
is nothing left but submission. 
VAKIETIES. 
a. Cinnus, Hilb. 830-1. An aberration, figured by Hiibner, 
in which the spots on the under side of the hind wings are not 
ocellated. 
b. Ceronus, Esp. 90, 2 (1784) ; Hiib. 297. — ? Thetis, Eott. 
Naturf. vi. 24. A very beautiful variety of the female, in which 
the ground colour, instead of being brown, is blue, as in the male. 
Hiibner considered as belonging to the male Ceronus those specimens 
of that sex which have a row of black dots on the hind wings. 
Ceronus seems to occur throughout Europe, but most commonly in 
the south. PL XXVI., 5. 
30. L. Corydon, Poda. Mus. Grsec. p. 77 (1761); Esp. 33-4, 
79, 1; Hiib. 286-8; 0. i. 2, 28; Err. 223.— T/p%s, 
Esp. 51, 4. 
Expands 1*25 to 1‘50 in. Fringes of all the wings black and 
white. The male has the wings pale silvery blue. Fore wings with 
a broad black hind-marginal border ; that of the hind wings 
narrower, but accompanied by a row of black dots. The female is 
brown, with a black discoidal spot on the fore wings ; all the wings 
with the usual hind-marginal orange band, which is pale in colour. 
Under side : — I am unable to see any difference between this 
species and the last as regards the arrangement of the spots. The 
male, however, is much lighter than the male of Bellargus in the 
ground colour, and the spots are smaller, and more apt to be 
replaced by white ones. I know of no character in the design or 
colouring of the wings by which the female of this species may, 
with any certainty, be distinguished from that of the last. PL 
XXVI., 6. 
* The reader will, perhai^s, be reminded of Crabbe’s allusion to “ Adonis 
blue,” in the poem of the ‘ Borough,’ published in 1810. 
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