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uigra, ciliis apicalibus niveis ; snbtus omnibus fuscenti ciiiereis, 
multiocellatis, auticarum striga e maculis ocellaribus magnis atris 
post ocellum medium magnum ; posticis sine rubidius, radio medio, 
longitudinali a]bo, 25 mm.” Apparently easily distinguished from 
all other species by the brilliant violet costa of the male. Habitat, 
Persia. 
L. Eurypilus, Frr. 573. — Size of L. Icarus. Wings dark 
brown, with white fringes. Hind wings with two or three reddish 
orange lunules. Under side brownish white, slightly greenish blue 
at the bases ; all the wings with the usual ocellated spots and hind- 
marginal bands. Fore wings without basal spots. Habitat, 
Amasia. 
L. Diodorus, Brem. Lep. Ost. Sib. p. 29. — About the size of L. 
Icarus. The wings are brown, shot with violet above with indis- 
tinctly marked discoidal and central spots. Under side dark-grey. 
Fore wings with a discoidal lunule, a whitish hind-marginal band, 
a central row of irregularly arranged square spots, and one large 
basal spot. Hind wings similarly marked, but with two spots 
between the central row and the discoidal near the costa, and with 
three basal spots. All the spots are conspicuously surrounded by 
white rings. Habitat, Eastern Siberia (Sea of Baikal.) End of 
June. 
L. ranagca, H.-S. 490-3. — ^Expands 0*75 to 1 in. Some- 
what close to Lysiiaoa; the male is deep blue with very broad 
hind-marginal border, and with a black discoidal spot on the fore 
wings. Female brown, dusted with blue at the base. Under side 
slaty-grey, and bluish at the base. Fore wings with a hind-mar- 
ginal row of black spots ; internal to this three large black spots 
arranged in a triangle ; above them and beneath them two smaller 
ones. Discoidal spot very small and narrow. Hind wings with a 
faint orange band, an irregular central row, narrow discoidal and 
two basal spots, all very small. Habitat, Asia Minor. 
Var. Anisophthalma, Koll. Ms. Pers. — Has both sexes brown, 
the blue colour being absent from the male. Habitat, Persia. 
L. Dhereiiades, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1843, iii. 536; H. -8. 650-1. 
Expands 1 in. Dull grey, dusted with blue at the base. Fore 
wings with a black discoidal spot. Fringes all white. Under 
