by William Swainson

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by William Swainson Zoological Illustrations Series II… (1829)

As we cannot satisfactorily determine whether the types here figured of Lucia and Erina are described in books, we have been compelled to regard them as unnamed. This, and the two other species we possess, are all from Australia. On bringing the genus Polyommatus to analogical tests, the only demonstration of a natural group, we find the sub-genera representing the families of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, in the following manner:—1. Typical, Polyommatus, Papilionidæ.—2. Sub-Typical, Lycæna, Nymphalidæ.—3. Aberrant, Naïs-Hesperidæ, Lucia-Erycidinæ, and Erina-Satyridæ.
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