LYCi1-:NID.T2 I'OLVO.M.MATUS. 1)3 



Sp. 11. Eros. Alls jittllidr ci/aneis inimuculutis, aiit J'uscis, suhtiis c! nereis, 

 punctis numerosis ocelluribus, posticis fascia marginali Jlavd obliteratd. (Exp. 

 alar. 1 unc. 2 lin.) 

 Pa. Eros. Ochsenhcimer. — Po. Eros. Stcph. Catal. 



The male above very pale greenish-blue, with a narrow marginal black streak, 

 the posterior wings with a few blackish spots on the margin ; the cilia white : 

 beneath greatly resembling the preceding insect, brownish-gray, with the base 

 of tlie wings greenish, the ocelli nearly as in Po. Alexis, buitlie margin with 

 a faint yellowish (instead of fulvous) band. 'I'he female (according to (Jchsen- 

 heimer) is brown above, as in the common species. 

 Var. } /5. Colour of the upper surface ratlicr more intense, the inferior ocellated 

 nearly as in Po. Alexis, but destitute of a fulvous marginal fascia, in lieu of 

 which it has a series of ocelli with minute black irides, cinctured with white, 

 faintly tinted with yellowish towards the inner side. This variety is pro- 

 bably synonymous with the Pa. Labienus of the first edition of the Butterfly 

 Collector's Vade Alecum, unless var. y of the preceding insect be the kind 

 intended. 



This is probably a distinct species, and may be known by the 

 peculiarly pale silvery or greenish-blue colour of its upper sur- 

 face; but the inferior side is far too similar to that of Po. Alexis to 

 constitute a specific difference. Mr. Haworth's specimen was found, 

 I believe, in Kent; and mine, which I have characterized by the 

 var. /3, I took in July 182G, in a grassy lane near Ripley, Surry. 



Sp. 12. Argus. Alis saturate carulcis iii^ro maririiiatis, aut fitscis subtiis Iwte 

 canis, punctis ocelluribus fasciiujue fulv/i, posticis ad marginem ocellis carttleo- 

 argenteis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — !• lin.) 



Pa. Argus. Linn':. — Lewin, pi. 39. f. 5 — 7. — Po. Argus. Ste/'/i. Catal. 



Ma'o with the wings above deep blue, tinged with lilac, the hinder margin broad 

 and black, the costa white; beneath grayish-blue, the latter colour predo- 

 minating at the base : anterior wings with a central ocellus, behind which is 

 a bent series of ocelli, usually comjiosed of six ; the third, fourth, and fifth 

 from the costa being largest, and generally elongated ; the sixth frequently 

 double; the hinder margin with a double band of black spots, frequently 

 adorned with a blush of fulvous : posterior wings with three ocelli at the base 

 placed obliquely; a somewhat triangular discoidal spot, with a large black 

 central dot ; behind this a waved series of oceUi, about eight in number, fol- 

 lowed by an articulate band of orange tawny, containing several brilliant sil- 

 very blue spots on a black ground, and bordered internally with a series of black 

 crescents, and externally with whitish ; the external margin of all tlic wings 

 black: ciha white, sometimes with a few bklck dashes at the base. Female 

 above brown, the disc sometimes bright blue, with, or without, a marginal 

 tawny band, which is usually most obsolete in the anterior wings ; beneath 

 grayish, with the ocelli larger and more distinct than in the male, and a den- 

 tated white banil traversing all the wings, between the oceUi and tlie fulvous 

 band : cilia brown. 



