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Stigmata, which mark in the females is indicated by a white patch 

 in a small wave towards the apex of the second costal nervure : the 

 abdomen of the male is furnished at its tip with a curved appendage. 



Sp. 1. Virgo. Viridi-aut cwruleo-wnea, sericea, ore ventreque nigrisy abdominis 

 apice subtus luteo ; alls angustioribus. (Long. corp. 21 — 22 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 28—32 lin.) 



Le. Virgo. Linne. — Ca. Virgo. Steph. Catal. 308. No. 3423. — Li. splendeo. 

 Harris, Exp. pi. xxx.f. 4< $, 5 9. 



Above of a rich silky-green or brassy-blue, occasionally coppery ; mouth and 

 under parts deep black ; legs black ; abdomen at its apex beneath luteous, 

 and sometimes with a faint line of that hue on each side beneath ; anal 

 appendages black, the lower ones luteous at the base beneath. Wings 

 variable. 



Var. a. Male : wings hyaline, with a broad central transverse bluish-green, or 

 brownish fascia. 



Var. ^. Male : wings deep blue-black, the base hyaline, and apex slightly 

 fuscescent. 



Var. y. Male and female : wings entirely brownish. 



Var. S. Female : wings greenish, with a minute whitish stigma, or nearly 

 immaculate. 



Var. e. Female : anterior wings greenish-hyaline, posterior fuscescent ; all with 

 a white stigma. 



The clypeus has sometimes a minute yellow dot ; and in some females a round 

 spot of the same is found on the front, near each eye. 



A common species throughout the metropolitan district, during 

 the early summer months. 



Sp. 2. Ludoviciana. Viridi-aut cceruleo-wnea, sericea, ore ahdominisque apice 

 subtus luteis, alis subattenuatis. (Long. corp. 22 — 23 lin.; Exp. Alar. 29 — 32 

 lin.) 



Ca. Ludoviciana. Leach MSS. — Steph. Catal. 308. No. 3424. 



Above bright silky-green, brassy-blue or coppery ; mouth more or less clear 

 luteous, or yellowish ; under parts black, except the apex of the abdomen, 

 which is luteous ; legs black ; anal appendages the same, with the base of 

 the lower ones yellowish. Wings broadish and long, variable in colour. 



Var. a. Male: wings wholly of a rich deep blue-black. 



Var. p. Male : wings deep blue-black, with the apex hyaline. 



Var. y. Male and female with the wings wholly fuscescent; in the latter sex 

 with distinct white stigmata. 



Also a common species throughout the metropolitan district : found 

 also in the New Forest and in Devonshire. 



