r.YC.EKID.E. 8s 



that Mr. J. F. Stephens was correct, and that the supposed 

 Dorylas were merely specimens of one of the varieties of 

 Adotiii already enumerated. The genuine T)nr//laf! is a native 

 of Central and Southern Europe, and not at all likely to occur 

 here.] 



5. P. Corydon, Scop. — Expanse, U inch. Male shining 

 pale blue, female brown ; cilia chequered ; under side with 

 rather large ocellated spots. 



Male, glossy pale silveiy blue ; costal margin of fore wings 

 narrowly white ; apes, hind margin, and ends of the nervures 

 blackish-brown. Hind wings with a row of whitish-margined 

 black spots close to the blackish hind margin. Cilia pure 

 white, interrupted by distinct blackish dashes. Female dark 

 brown, with faiut indications of pale-ringed darker spots 

 along the hind margin of the fore wings, and a row of orange 

 and black spots, edged with bluish and whitish, on the hind 

 margin of the hind wings ; cilia whitish, or slightly creamy 

 with broad brown dashes. On both fore and hind wings is 

 an indistinct central black spot, sometimes faintly ringed with 

 white, at others greatly obscured by the ground colour. 



Under side of* the male — fore wings greyish- white, with 

 numerous black spots, and a marginal row of white spots 

 with black centres and edges. Hind wings faintly brownish- 

 grey, bluish at the base, with numerous white-ringed black 

 spots, those forming the marginal band edged inside with 

 orange and black. Female golden brown, with the spots 

 similar, but much more conspicuous and larger, those of 

 the fore wings being also ringed with white. Those males 

 which are of a greyer colour on the under side show white 

 rings more or less faintly. 



The male is variable in the colour of the upper side (arising 

 apparently from the greater or less abundance of the long silky 

 white hairs with which the surface between the nervures is pro- 

 fusely clothed), and also in the breadth and depth of colour of 

 the dark brown hind margin, which also is frequently dappled 



