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CLIFDEN BLUE. 



DARTFORD BLUE. 



PLATE LXII. 



Poli/ommatiis Adonis, 



Papilio Adonis, 



Papilio Ceronits, 

 Papilio Bellargus, 

 Papilio Argus, 

 Hesperia Adonis, 



Stephens. Cuetis. Wood. 

 Duncan. Westwood. 



OCHSENHEIMER. LeaCH. 



Samouelle. 



HUBNER. 



ESPEE. ViLLAES. MuLLER. 



Donovan. 



Fabricius. 



The unfeeling and heartless manner in which Mr. Charles 

 Dickens relates the gratuitous destruction, by the robbers, of poor 

 Grimaldi's "Dartford Blues," in revenge, as it would appear, 

 for the rest of the intended plunder having been timely removed; 

 must for ever lower him in the estimation of every high- 

 souled — entomologist. True indeed it is that he uses language 

 not altogcttier inappropriate, in treating of the lamentable loss — 

 language which, did it express the feelings of his heart, might 

 be accepted, as displaying some degree of conuniseration for so 

 sad a calamity; but the acute perception of the entomologist 

 will at once tell him that the sympathy is but feigned, the 

 pity but a mockery, the pretended commiseration a mere delusion, 

 betokening an utter want of feeling on a subject which ought 

 instinctively to call forth the deepest emotion. 'T is easy to 

 see through the hollow speciousness: 'hie nigri est succus 

 loiiginis;' which translated into plain English is — Mr. Dickens, 

 I am quite sure, is no entomologist. 



This most lovely insect, whose beauty is imported by its 



