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base, becoming blue when free from the overlap. The “ blasen- 
schuppen’”’ are very numerous in the secondary as in the 
primary. It is interesting to record that the Indian Hveres 
parrhasius has no “ blasenschuppen” at all, thus proving 
conclusively to my mind the distinctness of the species. 
Tarucus theophrastus is Plebeiid in its scaling; dealing with 
the blue ones only, the subcostal ones are longish, for so small 
an insect I should say long, tapering somewhat more widely 
to the apex which is scalloped; in the cell and median area 
they are broad, of moderate length, with the apex well arched 
and scalloped to a more or less degree; the same pattern 
obtains on the fold also. The “ blasenschuppen” are very 
large and flask-shaped (7.e. the shape of a pocket flask) 
somewhat tapered at the base to meet the attachment ped- 
uncle; they have fourteen to sixteen rows of reticulations 
and extend practically to the termen of the wing, this being 
a very unusual character. They are Plebeiid in sculpture 
rather than of the Polyommatus icarus type. 
Lampides boeticus presents some very remarkable features, 
more especially in its plumules, if I may depart from my 
adopted appellation “ blasenschuppen”’ in this special species, 
the fact being that in this insect these scales are not bladder- 
like, though generally speaking they are so. In boeticus 
however we find these scales with a certain amount of colour, 
they are brownish, occasionally with a slight lustre, and 
very long, in shape like an Indian club, and they are extra- 
ordinarily abundant, being so plentiful as to completely 
cover the ordinary scales in some parts of the wing. I will 
however refer to them after the ordinary scaling has been 
described. The basal area above the cell is clothed with 
beautifully waved, fine, very long, greyish-white hair scales, 
under which are a layer of similar brown ones, the former 
extending also into both the cell and the fold; these cover 
entirely the ordinary wing scales among which are a few 
brown ones with very long and sharply dentated apices, the 
indentations between the teeth being very deep; the ordinary 
wing scaling calls for no very special remark but probably 
all lepidopterists will remember the somewhat rough and 
occasionally almost greasy look that boeticus has; this arises 
