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LUCIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
agricola. 
hobartensis. 
mathewi. 
sulpitius. 
serpentata. 
occur beside the large form shown in our figure also specimens in India as they are just the same also some¬ 
times taken in Southern Europe. The part of the Indo-Australian fauna where the species is found is 
Southern, not palearctic Afghanistan, as well as Beloochistan, parts of Cashmir and in the Himalaya from 
Kumaon to Simla. 
Note: The late Mr. Fruhstorfer had some more Lycaena figured in the tables by names unknown to us. But 
as we do not know whether they are Indo-Australian and there are neither the originals nor the exact statements of the 
habitats at our disposal, they may for the present remain unmentioned here. 
Group of the Polyommatini (Small Coppers). 
This division serving more for the perspicuity than systematic purposes, has been shortly characterized 
in Vol. 1, p. 275 and 276. The recently more familiar name Chrysophanini is to be preferred since the ,,Coppers“ 
having formerly been called ,,Polyommatus“ have of late been denominated Chrysophanus , Heodes or still 
otherwise, whereas the name of the genus Polyommatus is applied to the baeticus L. which are to be reckoned 
among the Lycaenids in a restricted sense. We keep it up here out of regard for Vol. I. 
Note: As the elaboration of the Indo-Australian Lycaenids had been taken up by H. Fruhstorfer who, however, 
came to an untimely death during this work, the rotation begun by Fruhstorfer will be maintained on the whole. The deceased 
could not be induced to follow the editor’s suggestion to keep up the rotation mostly chosen in the other divisions (Theclini — 
Clirysophanini — Lycaenini), but he began with the Lycaenini and wished to deal last with the Theda contrary to Vol. I 
and V. In order to avoid a confusion, I continue now the work in the way it was begun, whereby also the rotation of the 
tables remains serviceable. 
29. Genus: Imcia Swsn. 
This genus, being composed of the subdivions of Lucia Sums., Neolucia Waterh. and Paralucia Waterh. 
(separated owing to the different branching off of the upper discoidal) to a certain extent represents our Chryso¬ 
phanus on the Australian Continent and in Tasmania. Waterhouse very conspicuously places some brown 
species to the genus Una which is only possible if this genus is conceived quite differently than was done 
by the older authors. —- The type for the genus is the bibulus from the Cape (Vol. XIII, t. 65 g) being 
comparable with the Australian agricola, and later on numerous forms were added to it as congeneric forms 
which, however, differ rather much from this type. — In general there is here also shown again a strange 
congruence of the Australian lepidoptera on the one hand with those from the Cape (agricola-bibulus), on the 
other hand with the palearctic and nearctic ones, as in the genus Chrysophanus (salustius-phlaeas). 
L. agricola Ww. (153 h). I already took this neat, very lively lepidopteron on the 1st of October, 
the first really warm spring-day near the town of Sydney. Upper surface dark sepia-brown, shaded with black 
before the margin; the fringes are black speckled with white. The under surface especially in the hindwing 
is conspicuously marked; right across the disc of the hindwing there is a whitish band bordered with dark; 
the V-spots behind it are blackish. Beneath particularly the fringes of the forewings are conspicuously speckled 
black with white. The imagines are very alert and rest, with their wings opened, on sunlit bushes. Another 
generation is said to have been observed, unless this be a mistake for — - hobartensis Misk. flying in Tasmania 
and at greater altitudes in Australia in midsummer (February), for instance on Mt. Kosciusko (5000 ft.) and 
Mt. Erica (4500 ft.). Above this form is almost exactly like agricola, but beneath the white margin of the 
hindwing is darker; the white discal spot of the hindwing is neither so distinctly prominent, but otherwise the 
dark marking is more distinct. Rarer than the typical form and local, whereas agricola flies to the east, south 
and west of the continent near the coast. 
L. mathewi Misk. is unknown to me and I am not certain whether it belongs to this genus, though 
Waterhouse places it after agricola. Size of agricola. Above lighter brown, with a more distinctly defined 
dark marginal band. Fringes above only faintly speckled. Beneath the dark marking is duller, sometimes 
quite extinct, the V-spots black, bordered with yellow or orange, sometimes indistinct. New South Wales. 
L. sulpitius Misk. (= serpentata Snip, nec H.-Schaff.) in the shape resembles more a Zizera or Naca- 
duba ; the hindwing feebly projects before the anal angle, but it has not a regular tail. Fringes only on the hind¬ 
wing feebly speckled. Above blackish-brown with an entirely dark blue reflection. Beneath there are fine, 
transverse, in some places coherent, small light comma-like spots which are somewhat broader in specimens 
from North Queensland than in those from Brisbane. North-Eastern Australia. 
L. serpentata H.-Schaff. (= molybdena Quest., fasciola Tepp.) is also like a Nacaduba ; recognizable 
by the broad bright blue basal halves of the wings above, whereas those of sulpitius only exhibit a very dark 
blue reflection. Beneath earth-coloured brown, the spots very slightly darker; margin white, discal area of hind¬ 
wing covered with white, the anal spots generally not distinct. In the west, east and south of the Australian 
Continent, in some places not rare. 
Note: Probably by a mistake an African lepidopteron was inserted in this genus, which is reported to have been 
taken in Australia, Cupido palemon Cr. (= thespis Hbst. nec L.). This lepidopteron which we figure in Vol. XIII, t. 73 a accor¬ 
ding to specimens from Lake Nyassa, has tailed hindwings and belongs here neither geographically nor systematically, 
although the hindwing beneath exhibits a marking somewhat similar to the preceding species. 
