hi. FAM. LYCENID^E. 
I. 
GENUS 
GERYDUS (Miletus) 
2. 
>1 
NEOPITHECOPS 
3* 
>> 
MEGISBA 
4- 
)> 
CH1LADES 
5- 
V 
ZIZERA 
6. 
j) 
JAMIDES 
7- 
)5 
LAMPIDES 
8. 
1 ) 
EVERES 
9- 
NACADUBA 
IO. 
>> 
CATOCHRYSOPS 
ii. 
7) 
POLYOMMATUS 
12. 
>J 
ARHOPALA 
l 3 - 
>> 
IRAOTA 
14- 
)) 
CURETIS 
l 5 - 
>> 
ILERDA 
16. 
)> 
PRATAPA 
i7* 
>1 
SPINDASIS 
18. 
)) 
TAJURIA 
19. 
>5 
DEUDORIX 
20. 
)> 
LEHERA 
21. 
>) 
RAPALA 
This very large Family of generally small-sized and often brilliant butterflies is univer¬ 
sally distributed, but many of the genera are restricted in their range. Gerydus and Deudorix 
are common to the Eastern tropics ; Spindasis is the Oriental equivalent of the Ethiopian genus 
Aphnceus; Curetis is Oriental and Australian. Her da is peculiar to the Oriental Region. 
Polyommatus is of almost world-wide range. 
The forelegs of the Lyccenidce are fairly well developed, and are used for walking. In 
the males the tarsus consists of but one joint, with a single claw at the tip. The pupae in this 
Family are affixed by the tip of the abdomen, in most genera with a girdle round the middle, but 
this is absent in some species. The larvae are usually slug-shape or limaciform, the prolegs very 
small and scarcely showing when the larva travels ; the head is generally small and often retractile 
within the second segment. 
