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full growth. Mr. L. B. Prout tells me that they are especially 

 fond of the blossoms of Ononis spinosa (Rest-harrow). It 

 also feeds ou Mcdiccujo, Trifolium, and probably Adragahi^. 

 September to April, and again at the end of June and in 

 July. Very small specimens of the butterfly, which have 

 been taken near Bristol and elsewhere late in the autumn, 

 are probably produced from autumn larvae which have been 

 induced by exceptionally warm weather to feed up and 

 change before the winter, thus furnishing a partial third 

 brood. 



Pupa rounded ; dull green, tinged in front with brown. 

 (Newman.) 



Most abundant ou chalky hillsides and sea sandhills, in 

 the south of England, but also in meadows, pastures and 

 roadsides, scarce in some parts of the Midland counties, but 

 distributed over the whole of the three kingdoms, except the 

 islands of the Orkney and Shetland groups, and usually 

 common. It is one of the brightest and most attractive of 

 our common insects. 



Found almost all over Europe, a large portion of Asia, 

 and the north of Africa. 



k P. Adonis, Ililb., Schiff.; bellargus, Stmul. Cat. — 

 Expanse, 1} to H inch. Male rich bright blue; female 

 brown ; cilia chequered, spots on the under side not large, fore 

 wings rather short and broad. 



Male of a most exquisite bright blue, with a mauve tinge. 

 Costal margin of the fore wings whitish ; apex and hind 

 margin edged with a black line ; nervures black at their tips. 

 Hind wings usually having a row of faint black dots along 

 the hind margin. Cilia of all the wings pure white, with 

 distinct, regular, blackish dashes extending to the outer edge. 

 Female blackish-brown, generally with a superficial bluish 

 gloss. Fore wings having a central black spot, and a row of 

 faint orange spots along the hind margin. Hind wings with 

 a well-marked row of orange and black spots, edged with 



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