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LARGE BLUE. 



PLATE LVII. 



Polyommatus Avion, Lateeille. Stephens. Cuetis. 



" " Wood. Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Avion, Linn^us. Hawoeth. Lewin. 



" " Donovan. Hubnee. 



LyccBna Avion, Ochsenheimee. Leach. 



Nomiades Avion, Hubnee. 



Localities for this insect are Charmouth, Dorset, where my 

 brother, Beverley E.. Morris, Esq. once took one, which I saw 

 immediately afterwards; the Cliffs near Dover, Kent; the Downs 

 near Marlborough, Wiltshire; and those near Glastonbury, Som- 

 ersetshire, where Mr. Quekett has taken it in some profusion; 

 the Mouse's Pasture, near Bedford, where Dr. Abbot first took 

 it, and Mr. Dale again in 1819; Broomham, in Bedfordshire; 

 near Winchester, in Hampshire; and Wigsworth and Barnwell 

 Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, where, in company with 

 my hospitable host, the Rev. William Bree, Curate of Polebrook 

 near there, who had in previous years discovered and taken it 

 there in tolerable plenty, I took the considerable number of 

 eleven specimens on the 19th. and 20th. of July, 1852. He 

 only once took one in the neighbourhood of Ashton Wold, a 

 few miles distant, though there are several other fields of exactly 

 a similar appearance to those in which it occurs at the former 

 place. 



The Large Blue expands in width from a little over an inch 

 and a half to nearly one and three-quarters. The fore wi^gs 

 are of a deep blue colour, with a large cluster of oblong black 

 spots near their centre; the outer edges are dark coloured; the 

 fringe of the wings is white. The hind wings are of the like 

 deep blue colour, bordered with blackish brown. 



