SCOLITANTIDES. Ill 



N. a/con measures rather less than an inch and a half in 

 expanse. The male is purplish-blue, with a moderately broad 

 black border on the hind-margins, and a discoidal spot on the 

 fore-wings. The female is blue, with the costa and hind-margin 

 of all the wings very broadly brown ; the fore-wings have a 

 discoidal lunule, and an obscure curved row of black spots. 

 The under side is brownish-ashy, with discoidal spots, an outer 

 row of eyes, and some basal spots on the hind-wings. There 

 is also a sub-marginal row of eyes ; all the eyes being rather 

 small, and uniform in size. The hind-wings are slightly bluish 

 towards the base. The transformations are unknown. 



Having now completed the survey of the British "Blues," 

 I will add a short notice of some of the more important 

 European and exotic genera which are still frequently grouped 

 with them under the magazine genus Polyommatus^ or Lyccena. 



GENUS SCOLITANTIDES. 

 Scolitantides^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 68 (1816). 

 This little group is considered by Dr. Scudder to be con- 

 generic with Plebeius ; but the wings are rather longer and less 

 acute, and there are no metallic spots in the sub-marginal 

 markings of the hind-wings beneath. It includes a few Euro- 

 pean and East Indian species. 



SCOLITANTIDES ORION. 



Papilio orion, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 471 (1771). 



Papilio ielephii^ Esper, Schmett. i. (i) p. 363, pi. 41, fig, 2 



(1778?); i. (2) p. 6, pi. 94, fig. (1790)- 

 Papilio bathiSj Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 328-330 (1803 ?); 



figs. 801, 802 (1827?). 

 Polyommatus orion, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 51 



(.879). 



