LUCIINAE 
in 
LUCIA 
Subfamily LUCIINAE. 
biAGO. Of small size. ForeAving Avitli eleven veins: 
absent: vein G arising from vein 7 beyond end of ceil. 
vein 11 not anastomosed with vein 12: vein S 
Hindwing variable. Eyes smooth. 
Raxge. Confined to Tasmania and the southern half of eastern Australia. 
subfamily are all of somewhat similar colours, 
m ' I ” Alls rahan Lyeaemils in vein 0 of forewing arising from vein 7 beyond the 
cell. otheiiMse they are not closely related. Lucia has the delicate build and weak flight of the smaller 
kicaemnac rseudalmenus is distinctly and Parahua more remotely related to the T/mclnL Wo 
mggebt that the species of all throe genera may be regarded as ancestral forms of probably southern 
iXrd S'mhe -w’^'^^ point, and including 
iMtliii it thiee othenuse divergent genera, is that the elimination of these three aberrant genera is inn 
?tTmpt«l^'^^‘'*‘^ Siitrsfaetory subdivision of the remaining genera of the Australian Lycaenidae can be 
Key to the Genera of LUCIINAE. 
A. Hindwing witli terinen evenly rounded 
B. Hindwing with tennen produced to a tooth* at vein la *.'*'*.' 
C. HindAving AA'ith an anal lobe, and with a tail to vein 2 
Lucia. 
Paralucia. 
Pseudalmeniis. 
Genus LUCIA SAA’ainson. 
Zoological Illustrations^ Second Series, ii, pi. 135, 1832. 
Forewing with vein 12 reaching costa about end of cell: vein 11 free from vein 12: vein 10 from 
‘ reaching costa just before apex: vein (j from vein 7 well beyond 
end of cell. Hmdwing with tennen evenly rounded. Eyes smooth. 
Type. Lucia lucanus Fabric 
LUCIUS. 
The one species of tins genus has a very low and weak flight, suggestive of that of the butterflies 
ot the genus Neolucia of the Lycaeninae. 
161. Lucia lucanus Fabrieius. Fig.(^6](2^ 248. 
Entomologia Systematica, iii, p. 322, 1793. 
Aboae. Foi’CAving dull broAvn; a broad central area, including the greater portion of cell and 
^aching dorsum, coppery orange: a narroAV bar at end of cell, broAvn: cilia Avhite, at veins broAvn. 
iiKiAAing dull broAvn: sometimes a A"ei’y faint central suffusion, cojApery: cilia Avhite, at A'eins broAvn. 
Beneath Forewing pale brown suifused Avhitish: a central area, pale orange: tAvo bars across cell, 
a bar at end of cell, and a dot in area la beloAV middle of cell, broAvn edged Avhitish: a series of small 
thscal spots from costa to area 2, broAvn edged Avliitisb: a series of faint minute subterminal s])ots, 
pale broAvn. HindAA’iiig broAvn suifused Avhitish: a curved series of small irregular diseal spots, broAvn: 
a basal and a subtenninal series of faint minute spots, pale broAvn. 
2; Above. Foiwing dull broAvn: an ill-defined variable central patch, dull coppery orange: a spot 
in cell and a bar at end of cell, dark biwn: cilia Avbitc, at veins broAvn. HindAving dull broAvn* 
ciha Avhite, at veins broAvn. 
Beneath as in male: broAvn subterminal siDots larger and clearer. 
Log. Mackay. Rockhampton 11 12. Eidsvold 3. Brisbane 1 6 7 8 12. Richmond 11 . 1 2.^q j\Ianning 
Sydney 1 2 10.^ IllaAvarra 4 8. Blue Mts. 3. Melbourne 11 12 . Gisborne 2 3 . Castlemaine 2 
o 1 10 11 12. Birehii^. Kerang. Murtoa. Dimboola. 3739 o. Oo^A= 
figure of lucanuSj if it be really draAAui from this species, is a A^ery j^oor one, hence there 
IS still some little uncertainty as to its identification. SAvainson, Avhen defining the genus, figured this 
species tinder the name of limbariat adding the name lucanus as a doubtful synonym. 
The butterfly is irregular in its ai:)pearance: in some seasons only single examples are to be met Avith, 
but at other limes it is very abundant. 
