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SCOTCH ARGUS. 



PLATE XXIII. 



Hipparchia Blandina, Ochsenheimer. Stephens. 



" " Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Blandina, Fabricius. Sowerby. 



" " Donovan. 



Epigea Philomela, Hubner. 



Oreina Blandina, Westwood. 



The British Butterflies are to be sought in various localities — the 

 "Highways and Byways" of the country. Few of the latter will be 

 found to exceed in the graces of quiet retirement, those of the district 

 of Yorkshire, presently mentioned as one of the " habitats " of the 

 present species. 



This insect, formerly esteemed so rare, occurs in great profusion in 

 the neighbourhood of Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire, as I have been 

 informed by Mrs. Hugh E. Strickland, and her sister, Miss Jardine. 

 It is extensively distributed likewise in other parts of that county; 

 also in the Isle of Arran; near Minto, in Roxburghshire, and about 

 Edinburgh, and doubtless in most of the southern counties of Scotland. 

 In Yorkshire a few have been captured at the foot of Whernside, in 

 Craven, and Mr. Allis tells me that it is to be found in plenty near 

 Grassington, in Wharfedale, also in Craven, on most of the hills and 

 mountains of which district I fully expect that it will be discovered. 

 It exists in profusion in one or two places not far from Newcastle, in 

 Northumberland, and likewise iu Castle Eden Dene, in the county of 

 Durham, a sweet spot, well worth visiting for its own sake; as also at 

 Grange, near Ulverstone, in Lancashire, in gardens. 



The perfect insect appears about the beginning of August. 



The Scotch Argus varies in the expanse of its wings from an inch 

 and a half to two inches. The upper side is of a uniform dark 

 bronzed brown colour, the fore wings having a dark orange-red patch 

 near the tip, wider in its fore than its hind part, which two are 

 sometimes divided by a constriction in the middle of the patch. In 



