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SCOTCH ARGUS. 



PLATE XXIII. 



Sijpparchia Blandina^ Ochsenheimer. Stephens. 



" " Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Blandina, Fabricius. Sowerby. 



" '' Donovan. 



Epigea Philomela, Hubner. 



Oreina Blandijia, Westwood. 



The British Butterflies are to be sought in various localities 

 — the "Highways and Byways" of the country. Few of the 

 latter will be found to exceed in the graces of quiet retirement 

 the district of Yorkshire, presently mentioned, as one of the 

 "habitats" of the present species. 



This insect, formerly esteemed so rare, occurs in great pro- 

 fusion in the neighbourhood of Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire, as 

 I have been informed by Mrs. Hugh E. Strickland, and her 

 sister. Miss Jardine. It is extensively distributed likewise in 

 other parts of that county; also in the Isle of Arran; near 

 Minto, in Roxburghshire, and about Edinburgh, and doubtless 

 in most of the southern covmties of Scotland. In Yorkshiie a 

 few have been captured at the foot of Whernside, in Craven ; 

 and Mr. Allis tells me that it is to be found in j'lenty near 

 Grassington, in Wharfedale, also in Craven, on most of the 

 hills and moi;ntains of which district I fully expect that it will 

 be discovered. It exists in profusion in one or two 2>laces not 

 far from Newcastle, in Northumberland, and likcAvise in Castle 

 Eden Dene, in the county of Durham, a sweet spot, well worth 

 visiting for its own sake. 



The Scotch Argus varies in the ex]Danse of its -wings from 

 an inch and a half to two inches. The upper side is of a 



