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LYC.ENIDM. 
Time of Appeakance. — July. 
Habitat. — Turkey and Asia Minor. 
Obs. — Some entomologists are of opinion that the forms 
Admetus, Bipartii, Dolus, Menaclas, and the Asiatic Hopferi, are all 
local races or varieties of the same species. It must be admitted 
that the definition of a true species is a very great difficulty at the 
present time, when zoologists are so divided in their opinions on 
this subject. In the case of the group of insects now under notice 
I have strictly followed Staudinger’s division of the different forms. 
36. L. Damon, S. v. p. 182 (1776); Hiib. 275-7; 0. i. 2, 19.— 
Biton, Esp. 33, 5, 62, 4. 
Expands I’O to 1'50 in. Fringes of all the wings white. The 
male has the wings pale blue, somewhat brighter than in Corydon. 
The fore wings have a rather broad dark brown hind-marginal 
band, somewhat indistinctly defined on its inner side ; the hind 
wings have a similar band, but narrower and more defined ; the 
nervures of all the wings liecome broad and dark as they ajiproach 
the hind margin. The wings have not the thick patch of brown 
scales seen in the two preceding species. The female is uniformly 
brown. Under side brownish grey, greenish blue at the base. 
Fore wings with an elongated discoidal spot, and a central row of 
black spots in white rings. Hind wings with two small black spots 
in white rings near the costa, and four similar ones forming a 
central row ; a very sharply defined white streak runs straight 
across the wing, nearly from the base to the hind margin. 
PI. XXX., 6. 
Times of Appearance. — -June to August. 
Habitat. — West Central and Southern Germany, Switzerland, 
the Soutl] of France, Nortli Italy, Dalmatia, and the East of 
Eussia. In Western Asia it assumes various varietal forms, which 
will be found enumerated under the extra-European Lyccmidce. It 
is a somewhat local species, but common where it occurs, 
frequenting open sunny places, generally on a chalky soil, in 
saiiitfoin fields. 
Larva. — Green, with a darker dorsal stripe, and two pale 
