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LITTLE BLUE. 



BEDFORD BLUE. 



PLATE LIX. 



Polyommatus Alsus, Stephens. Cuetts. Duncan. 



" " Wood. Westwood. 



Papilio AUus, Gmelin. Lewin. Donovan. 



Papilio minimus, Esper. Schaffek. Villers. 



Papilio pseudolus, Borkhattsen. 



Nomiades Alsus, Httbner. 



Hesperia Alsus, Fabricius. 



I HAVE taken this diminitive butterfly in tolerable plenty at 

 Pinney Cliff; Devonshire, near Lyme Regis; and also near 

 Charmouth, Dorsetshire; also near Sittingbourne, in Kent. In 

 Yorkshire, it has been met with at Wadsworth and Brodsworth, 

 near Doncaster, and in other parts. Other localities for it are 

 the neighbourhood of Newmarket, Cambridgeshire; near Great 

 Bedwyn and Sarura, Wiltshire, in isolated places near woods, 

 as J. W. Lukis, Esq. has informed me, as likewise near Ames- 

 bury; and Hainault Forest, Essex. Also South Creek, Norfolk; 

 Brandon Warren, Suffolk; Dover, Birch Wood, and Darenth 

 Wood, Kent; near Andover and the Isle of Wight, in Hamp- 

 shire; Darlington, in Durham; between Woodstock and Enstone, 

 Oxfordshire; near Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire; and near 

 Hertford. In most of the northern counties of Scotland, and 

 at Ardrahan, in the county of Galway, in Ireland, as A. G. 

 More, Esq. has written me word. 



The perfect insect appears at the end of May or beginning 

 of June, and keeps out for a considerable time. It is often 

 seen on the sides of disused chalk-pits, and on grass-grown 

 cliffs, where, a veritable "Gay being," it revels in the concen- 



