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MAZARINE BLUE. 



PLATE LVI. 



Pohjommatus Acis, Stephens. Curtis. Wood. 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Acis, Eenst. 



Lyccena Acts, Ochsenheimer. 



Nomiades Acis, Hubner. 



Paj)ilio Argiolus, Espee. Hubnee. 



Papilio semiargiis, "■ Boekhausen. 



Papilio Cymon, Lewin. Hawoeth. Jermyn. 



Lyccena Cymon, Leach. Samouelle. 



This, in conjunction witli a former species, gives us an en- 

 tomological "Acis and Galatea," who 



"Merry, liarmless, free, and gay. 

 Dance and spurt the hours away; 

 For them the zephyr blows, for them distils the dew, 

 For them unfolds the rose, and flow'rs display their hue." 



"Where shall I seek the charming fair? 

 Direct the way kind genius of the mountains; — 

 Seeks she the gi'oves?" 



It is rather the "pleasure of the plains" that will reward 

 your search, and even there you must wander far and wide, 

 for it is but at distant intervals that our present butterfly is to 

 be met with. 



This very interesting and valuable insect used formerly to be 

 taken in tolerable plenty by J. C. Dale, Esq., in his parish of 

 Glanville's AYootton, Dorsetshire, but now it is never seen there. 

 It occurs also near Sarum, Wiltshire, and in Sywell Wood, near 

 Northampton, as the Rev. D. T. Knight, oFEarl's Barton, informs 

 me. Other localities given are Yorkshire and Norfolk, various 

 parts of Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, and Worcestershire j also 



