122 BBIGETON AEGUS. 



Underneath, the wings are dove-coloured brown, elegantly mottled 

 and streaked with a paler shade of the same, with a bar of the 

 latter within the outer margin, and a fulvous red mark at its outside 

 corner, in which are two bright rich dark emerald spots. 



The tails to the wings, as well as the purple colour in the fore 

 wings, shew this butterfly to be closely allied to the family of the 

 Hairstreaks, so that it can scarcely be called a "True Blue." 



For the specimen of this insect from which the figure on the plate 

 is taken, I have to thank Mr. Cooke, the naturalist, of Oxford Street, 

 London; and my obliging friend, Frederick Smith, Esq., of the 

 British ^Museum, bv whose kind intervention it was obtained for me. 



