108 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES ’ 
row of fulvous markings on the hind wings is very distinct, the marks at the anal angle being duplicated. In 
the centre of the hind wings is a triangular white spot, generally with a black dot in the centre, preceded, towards 
the base, by four ocelli, placed obliquely,and between the middle ocelli of the row beyond the centre of the wing 
and the orange spots is a white patch, there is also a slender black marginal line, and the fringe is white. 
The female differs in having the upper side of the wings brown, the disc more or less suffised with 
blue ; there is also a submarginal row of fulvous spots, which are sometimes obsolete in the fore wings, in 
the hind wings they are preceded by black lunules and succeeded by black sub-ocellated spots. On the under- 
side the ground colour of the wings is browner than in the males, and the ocelli larger and more distinct. The 
base in these wings is also less strongly tinged with green. The fringe in this sex is rather darker than in the 
male, especially at the base, but not spotted, by which it is at once known from the female of P. Adonis. 
Varieties occur in this as in the preceding species, in which the number and size of the ocelli beneath, and markings 
on the upper side, are more or less obliterated. I possess indeed some specimens in which the opposite sides are 
not alike in these respects. 
One of these varieties, which Mr. Haworth thought might be a hybrid between Adonis and Alexis, has the 
two spots towards the base of the fore wings, on the under side, obsolete, and the upper side of the wings of the 
female more strongly saturated with blue. These form the species P. Hyacinthus of Lewin and Haworth. 
Others again, of very small size (not expanding more than 104 lines), have the upper side of the wings 
of a very pale lilac-blue, and the spots on the under side very small and pale, the inferior spot at the base 
of the fore wings obsolete, only five spots in the curved row beyond the middle of the discoidal cell, and the 
fulvous lunules almost obsolete, the two basal spots on the costa of the hind wings large and black. | have made 
this description from Mr. Kirby’s original specimen on which the Polyommatus Labienus was proposed. 
Potyommatus Turstytis of Jermyn is formed upon large female specimens of this species, in which the blue 
of the upper surface of the win: 
gs is much more extended than in ordinary individuals ; “the anterior wings 
beneath with a large kidney-shaped blackish spot cinctured obscurely with white, the concave side turned towards 
the interior margin; the posterior wings with the spot next the costal] margin kidney-shaped ; the concave 
side turned towards the disc ; the number of ocelli in all the wings varies considerably, and the kidney-shaped 
spot is sometimes interrupted.” 
Potyommatvs Lacon of Jermyn is another variety, in which the disc of the wings beneath is only marked 
with a triangular spot ; the hind margin of the anterior with a few indistinct dusky marks, and of the posterior 
with a fulvous band terminated internally with a series of black wedge-shaped spots, and externally with black 
dots on a white ground.” 
Mr. Stephens also adds that some specimens even differ in form from the rest, some of the females having the 
anterior wings very much rounded at the tip ; whilst in others they are somewhat acute. In some females also 
the disc of the wings on the upper side is entirely brown, whilst in others it is nearly as blue as in the males, 
with a black discoidal spot. 
As some of the preceding varieties appear to be constant in certain localities, Mr, Stephens informs me that 
he has but little doubt that they in fact constitute distinct species; such is particularly the case with certain 
individuals of the males, which have the wings very transparent, and of a more silvery blue ; and the females 
very blue, with very distinct red lunules adjoining the black submarginal and distinct ocelli. 
