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SILVER-STUDDED BLUE. 



PLATE LX. 



Polyommatus Argus, Stephens. Duncan. 



, " " Westwood. Wood. 



Polyommatus Alcippe, Kieby, MS., (var.) 



Polyommattts maritimus, Haworth, MS., (vin .) 



Papilio Argus, LiNN^us. Lewin. Haworth. 



Papilio Idas, Linnjeus, (female.) 



Papilio Argyrognomon, Boekhausen, (var?) 



Papilio Leodorus, Espee, (var.) 



Papilio Argiades, Espee, (var.) 



Hesperia Argus, Eabeicitjs. 



Hesperia Acreon, Fabricius, (var?) 



Lycoena Argus, Leach. Ochsenheijier. Hubner. 



Lycceides Argus, IIubnee. 



This fly is not uncommon ncai* Sarum, Wiltshire; also in 

 Sywell Wood, near Northampton. I have taken it in Devonshire, 

 at Pinhay clifF, near Lyme E-egis. It is also found in Coombe 

 Wood and Darenth Wood, Kent; at Wood Hay Common, 

 Hampshire; on Coleshill Heath, Warwickshire; Parley Heath, 

 Dorsetshire; Holt, Norfolk; and Eipley Green, Surrey; as 

 likewise in various other localities in the south of England. 



It is a very pretty and interesting, though rather plain species; 

 and pleasant it is to watch it as it wanders about to "bid good- 

 morrow to the flowers," in the height of summer, when 

 you are glad to lie down on some grassy bank and gaze upon 

 the flowers or the insects which surround you, listening the 

 while to the murmur of the tinkling rill, or it may be the 

 gentle rippling of the tide over the pebbled beach, every sight 

 and every sound full of present and inexpressible enjoyment, 

 and recalling perhaps also other times and other scenes and 



