( cxlvim: ) 
are about half as large as the ordinary blue pattern, rather 
more if anything; they are goblet-shaped, with a longish 
strong attachment peduncle tapering into the scale exactly 
as in a goblet; in sculpture they are ribbed, not reticulated 
as is usual with these scales, and are blue in colour; there can 
however be no doubt as to their being ‘“ blasenschuppen ” 
from their shape, their stem, and the position they occupy. 
Polyommatus galathea would appear from its general scaling 
to be very closely allied to icarus, but the “‘ blasenschuppen ”’ 
are more nearly related to the Lycaena (arion) group, the scales 
in each part of the wing are very similar to icarus; the thick 
hair-like scales are also present in fair numbers. The “ blasen- 
schuppen ” are however different, they are largish and balloon- 
shaped, with eleven rows of large reticulations. 
In Lycaena arion whilst the cable of costal scales remains 
similar, this being no doubt necessary for the strengthening 
and protection of the wing, there is a considerable admixture 
of bluish scales, on its internal side, of quite a different shape, 
that are long for a wing scale, in contradistinction to a marginal 
fringe scale, slightly tapering, of but moderate width, and 
with a deeply serrated apex having four sharp points; the 
neural scales are of medium length, generally brown, narrowish 
of almost even width, with serrated apices consisting of either 
a single or double serration, the costal and subcostal inter- 
nural scales are mostly brownish, of medium length and width, 
tapering slightly, wider distally, with the apex sharply tri- 
serrate, 2. e. with four points; mixed with these however are 
a number of more or less blue scales similar to those obtaining 
on the internal edge of the costal cable. The cell and other 
blue areas are covered with two patterns of scales, brown ones 
and blue, both have minor deviations, both are broad, of 
moderate length, nearly even in width, in the case of the blue 
scales the apices are trifid or quadrifid, not having the 
sharply serrate pattern but rather scalloped, the apices of 
the brown scales being evenly dentated with two or three 
dentations; the brown scales in the marginal area are similar 
to those on the veins, whilst at the base are to be found a 
large number of broad bell-shaped scales with irregularly 
dentated or scalloped apices, the terminal fringes are shorter 
