
186 THE INSECT WORLD. 
Polyommatus (Lycena) gordius (Fig. 154), neither of which occurs 
in this country. 




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ig. 153.—Polyommatus (Lycena) virgaurez. 
In the meadows, the gardens, and the lucerne and clover fields, 
are found the charming Blue butterflies, the wings on the upper 

















































































































































Fig. 154.- Polyommatus (Lyczena) gordius. 
side, in the majority of instances, biue in the case of the males, 
brown in the females. 
They comprise the genus Lycena, or, as it is frequently called, 
Polyommatus,* though that name is now generally given to the 
preceding. We will content ourselves here by giving drawings of 
* It may not be out of place to remark that although both these generic names 
are applied, sometimes to the one, sometimes to the other of these genera, the genus 
named in the text Polyommatus and that called Lycena are never considered identical. 
When either name is applied to the one, it is not at the same time applied to 
the other.—Eb. 

